VIPER has launched a label to commemorate the 40-year career of the São Paulo-based band. Other news will be announced soon as part of the 40th-anniversary celebrations.
Check out the label and the "x-ray" done by the band's guitarist and founder, Felipe Machado , explaining all the details that appear on the label.
"How do you represent 40 years of career in a single symbol, while maintaining the simplicity and style of VIPER? It was from this idea that I created, together with the designer João Duarte , who has worked with us for many years, the VIPER 40th anniversary logo."
To begin, the viper eating its own tail, an ancient symbol known as Ouroboros , represents the idea of cycles, transformations, and eternity. It is something that destroys and recreates itself; death, but also rebirth. It signifies change, time, evolution.
We had already used this image twice before, once on the bicycle wheels on the cover of Evolution , and another time on the cover of the Vipera Sapiens .
The phrase "From HR to Timeless" is somewhat obvious. HR was VIPER's first song, a composition I wrote with Pit even before VIPER existed, in 1984, and it was included on the album Soldiers of Sunrise . To this day, it's the song we choose to end our shows with. Timeless is the name of our most recent album, released in 2023.
The stamp has two other small but very important details: two stars, one with the letter A, for Andre , and the other with the letter P, for Pit. It was a small way to honor them and say that they will always be with us.
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