*Special thanks to Caidema for this article*
What you're looking at is the cover for Robot Monster Army's soon to be released album "Monsterpiece".
Anybody who has seen my YouTube video on Toho's strict copyright and trademark practices (seen here), knows that they give immediate cease and desist orders to anybody looking to profit off of their Godzilla franchise without paying licensing/royalty fees.
This is usually followed by a lawsuit in order to obtain some kind of settlement.
Past examples have included Toho taking on Subway, Mozilla, a wine maker, various internet domain websites, and so forth.
So no doubt somebody from Toho may seek retribution from this band for utilizing an image of King Ghidorah without their permission.
Now I don't know for certain if such permission was already sought by the band, but I'm hoping that they have or they would have to change it pretty quickly.
It's a difficult thing to gauge when it comes to free speech vs. copyright/trademark infringements.
I've heard that altering images (such as this album cover has done) makes a copyrighted photo fall under the "parody" protection status, but I can't tell for certain.
In any case here's the original article for further info on this album:
Roadrunnerrecords.com: ROBOT MONSTER ARMY: Entire New Album Available For Streaming
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