yesterday morning, a friend of mine found the thread about relapse 2. considering i am a part of "#teamrelapse2", and he had my email, he emailed me the address of a man who is a friend of who designed the relapse cover. i talked to him, and did some checks, and he was legit. so we began discussing relapse 2, he said that while he didn't hear anything from relapse 2, his friend indeed did design the cover for relapse 2. he explained how the cover looked, and said he would try to get it from him.
well, today, he managed to obtain it. it's a bit low quality, but this is official.

this, my friends, is what could've been on your shelf. notice the subtle notes of how dark it would've been. the skull subtly placed over his face. the blood red 2. hell, "shady, slim" is proof enough.