Fantasy art by Rodney Matthews

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This image goes by the name of Tiger Moth. Rodney Matthews was a drummer in a band by the same name.

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It seems very clear that this image is a description of the creatures described in the Bible in Revelation 9. It is named Five Months of Torment and was the album cover for the band Seventh Angel.

The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and the sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. They had breastplates like breatplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. They had a king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon [that is, Destroyer]. -- Revelation 9:1-11

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If one looks closely at this image and the one before it, one will notice that it is the same place. These two pieces of art are titled The Last Ship Home. Actually of Earth before the Last Days, and then the last ship taking the last fair humans to heaven.

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This image goes by the name Chase the Dragon and was used as an album cover for the band Magnum.

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I own this picture. It is named On a Storyteller's Night and is dated 1985. If one looks closely at the two pictures hanging on the wall, one will notice that they are also pictures by Rodney Matthews. It is also, apparently, one of the covers use by the British band Magnum.

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This is another picture from the band Tiger Moth, the band Matthews' was in. The album and the picture are called Howling Moth.

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I have conflicting information about this illustration. One says that this image was used as artwork in Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. Another, and probably a better authority, says that the name of the image is Foundation, but that it is from Rick Wakeman album by the same name.

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It is fairly clear that this images if of the four horseman of the Apocalypse as described in the Bible in Revelation 6. The work is apparently titled The Four Horsemen and is from an album cover for the band Full Moon.

I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror ben on conquest.

When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large sword.

When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and wine!"

When the lamb opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth. -- Revelation 6:1-8

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I own this picture. It is named The Eleventh Hour and is dated 1983. Actually, this scan is only half of the picture. It is also, apparently, one of the covers use by the British band Magnum.

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This image is titled Ether Stream and was used as an album cover from an album by Rick Wakeman.