Album covers: WTF were they thinking of?

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 Mascodagama wrote:

 BarryGlibb wrote:

Karthago have been put up previously for addition on PA but were promptly and appropriately given the short shrift. See here....
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=66753

Bizarrely it looks as though there have actually been TWO bands called Karthago. The one nominated (and rejected) for PA in your link was a German outfit featuring pre-Kraan Ingo Bischof. But the elephant-obsessed nut jobs whose album covers we've been enjoying hailed from Hungary.

I'll have to correct you on that. Yep, there were two Karthagos; the early Karthago was from Germany and the other later one from Hungary. BUT both of these bands were in fact "elephant-obsessed nut jobs" as you say. 

I have done a little research and found out that Karthago is Latin for Carthage and Carthage was the capital city of the Carthage civilization, whose army included "mounted troops on North African elephants (now extinct), trained for war, which, among other uses, were commonly 
used for frontal assaults or as anticavalry protection. An army could 
field up to several hundred of these animals,......The riders of these 
elephants were armed with a spike and hammer to kill the elephants, in 
case they charged toward their own army."

So there you have it; two bands named Karthago, both of which had an album cover obsession with elephants because of the Carthage (Karthago) army elephants!