UK's Metal Hammer has revealed the first details of the digipack version of Metallica's Death Magnetic album, which is being released worldwide on Friday, September 12. According to the magazine:

"the coffin that adorns the front of is concentric (meaning it has a coffin-shaped hole in the centre of the booklet that gets smaller as you turn each page). The images on each page in chronological order are: a car wreckage, an eyeball, a baby scan, a man in bed screaming, the cover of 'The Day That Never Comes' single, a street photo taken from on top of a building, people on a beach sunbathing, a cow's carcass, a steel pipe and fans at a concert, followed by a pic of the band standing on the street."

Yawn! I am not sure what this is supposed to do or show. Is it that the band is edgy? Metal? Innovative?

I have seen children's books that pull off the "concentric" theme better. For instance, I read the children's concentric book entitled: Mikey's First Head Trauma. It was a lovely little book about how our main character Mikey, a cute little tot, who wasn't seatbelted properly. His crack smoking mother drove while under the influence and crashed into an 18-wheeler. While her mother's brains were coating the pavement, Mikey had his small cranium lodged into the back of the passenger's seat. Oh, this wasn't a children's book at all. It was real life, but still more brutal than a man in bed screaming or a cow's carcass.