Digipak of Post-punk vocalist Jarboe with her 2008 album Mahakali which follows on the heels of Jarboe"s highly successful J2 collaboration with Justin K Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu). The album is named after the mythical Indian goddess of death and destruction (Maha is "great"; Kali is the feminine of kala, "darkness"), as mentioned in the Mahabarata and other Indian epics. "The idea of a "goddess of destruction" is one that I"ve cherished for a long time. Cedric [Victor, bassist and visual collaborator] mentioned Kali when we were recording because of the thematic similarities to the songs I had already written," says Jarboe.