On this album’s TITLE…

"....and I handed him the paper without additional remark, not wishing to ruffle his temper; but I was much surprised at the turn affairs had taken; his ill humor puzzled me —and, as for the drawing of the beetle, there were positively no antennae visible, and the whole did bear a very close resemblance to the ORDINARY CUTS OF A DEATH'S HEAD..."

• The double meaning: CUTS of a drawing and CUTS of music on an album 

• Calling the tracks "Ordinary Cuts" is a somewhat comical self deprication 

• The image of the skull, the "Death's-Head", is a hallmark of the story

• Both the story and the album explore common themes: Risk/Reward, Identity,                           The Unknowable Future, Redemption, Death