Vulture Culture

I learned the word Ouroboros to-day.  It's "a circular symbol that depicts a snake or dragon devouring its own tail and that is used especially to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth."  Of course, this made me think of the cover of Vulture Culture, which shows a variation of this symbol (with a vulture instead of a snake or dragon):

I'm not sure if "the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth" really applies to the album's concept though.  The liner notes of the CD re-issue describe the concept as "man's inhumanity to man."