Promotional Artwork for GNR" Its not in our lifetime tour". commissioned design and render graphic based from original artwork.
The 'Appetite for Destruction' album cover is one of the most recognizable pieces of album art in rock history, but the iconic 'skulls' graphic wasn't the album's original cover art.
Based on the Robert Williams painting 'Appetite for Destruction,' the Guns N' Roses original album cover depicted a robotic sex offender about to be destroyed by a metal avenger. Due to the controversial nature of the art, the band and Geffen Records chose to include the original art inside the album's booklet after various music retailers refused to stock the monumental record.
Appetite for Destruction is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses. It was released on July 21, 1987, by Geffen Records to massive commercial success. It topped the Billboard 200 and became the best-selling debut album as well as the 11th best-selling album in the United States. With about 30 million copies sold worldwide, it is also one of the best-selling records of all time. Although critics were ambivalent toward the album when it was first released, Appetite for Destruction has since received retrospective acclaim and been viewed as one of the greatest albums of all time. The album was re-released as a remastered box set in June 2018 to universal critical acclaim. It was preceded by the single "Shadow of Your Love".
The band stated the artwork is "a symbolic social statement, with the robot representing the industrial system that's raping and polluting our environment."In albums which were issued on double sided media (vinyl records and audio cassettes) the two sides were not conventionally labeled "A" and "B", but "G" and "R". Tracks 1–6 which compose side "G" all deal with drugs and hard life in the big city ("Guns" side). The remaining tracks, which compose side "R", all deal with love, sex and relationships ("Roses" side). In an interview with That Metal Show in 2011, Rose stated his original idea for the cover art was to be the photo of the Space Shuttle Challenger exploding, which was on the cover of Time magazine in 1986, but Geffen refused it saying it was "in bad taste".
