Pomegranate late 16th century and into California by Spanish settlers in 1769. Today, it is widely cultivated throughout the Middle East and Caucasus region, north and tropical Africa, South Asia, Central Asia, the drier parts of southeast Asia, and parts of the Mediterranean Basin. It is also cultivated in parts of Arizona and California. In the 20th and 21st centuries, it has become more common in the shops and markets of Europe and the Western Hemisphere. The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin "pōmum" "apple" and "grānātum" "seeded". Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, "pomme-grenade", the pomegranate
Stranger Fruit disrepair; bruised ("Gravedigger's Chant"), chopped in half ("Waste" and "Built on Ashes"), and with bites taken out of it ("You Ain't Coming Back"). The photographs of the apple were taken by drummer Marco Von Allmen. About the album's artwork, Gagneux stated "We thought way too long about it, and then just thought, 'What’s a fruit?'. We just bought an apple and figured we needed to mess it up as a reference to The Beatles album and the forbidden fruit and also the poem from Billie Holiday." The first track, "Intro" is a short track which Gagneux states "establishes a mood