An image with the iconography of the folk metal group is available at auction. The work belongs to Gaboni, the illustrator who has accompanied the group in its 33-year history.
The folk metal band Mago de Oz from Spain recently joined the madness that circles non-expendable tokens (NFTs) with the auction of one of their unreleased covers.
The piece illustrated by Gaboni, their official cover designer, was a proposal the band rejected for the cover of the Ira Dei album that Mago de Oz released two years ago. However, now the grouping deemed it to launch it as a collectible token.
“On the cover, we can see God and the Devil betting the souls of mortals on chess,” reads the description of the digital art, whose sale will end on March 15, as detailed on the unique digital.art platform. So far, the highest bid is at € 850, about $ 1,010.
The user that purchases the work will also receive the album in physical format and signed by the band. It is noteworthy that the theme that Mago de Oz addresses in this production is the apocalypse, a good coincidence due to the pandemic that would affect the world a year after the album came out. Later, the Madrid folk metal combo received a gold record for surpassing 20,000 sold copies of Ira Dei.
Gaboni, the illustrator in charge of making the covers of Mago’s albums, has been the creator of the extravagant images that the band uses. The creator of the Spanish group’s iconography has won several awards, including the prize for the best illustrator of the year from the 2012 Malaga International Comic Fair.
NFT is a Star that Guides the Music Industry
NFTs are now everywhere in the music world. Artists like Gorillaz, and Kings of Leon, have joined the collectible token madness. All are trying to capture the interest of more followers willing to pay significant sums of money for a new combination of art and technology.
During such a boom, questions about how rights and ownership of the original creators apply in the NFT ecosystem appear massively. Several worries that the community and artists have regarding non-fungible tokens were under analysis by some specialists at the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2021, one of the world’s most influential conferences for the blockchain environment.
Specialists highlight that multiple issues need solvency in the present so that the market has a prosperous future. One of the problems that requires a solution is how the images linked to these crypto assets get promoted. If they stop operating or stop being online, the works of the NFTs hosted on their servers will no longer be available.
Many users show interest in a system called IPFS, or Interplanetary File System, not to depend on centralized storage, but rather to do so with a p2p method that allows data to be stored and shared in a distributed file system.
By: Jenson Nuñez
