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Dude! You found it!
I heard about that image, then searched the web and never found it, it had been hidden deep. You're right, it was done long before the planes crashed into WTC and is nothing more than an amazing coincidence.
The FBI sent a couple agents to the record company and were satisfied that nothing there was amiss, it was just freak occurence.
The album cover will never be used for a CD, it was in poor taste even before the 911 attack.
What's amazing to me is that the artist had to imagine "what would the WTC look like being blown up?" and got it right on the money. Nothing on the cover suggests an airplane crash as the cause however.
The blast on the cover looks very fiery, in part I believe from the influence of Hollywood. Most people have never seen a real explosion, but have seen hundreds on screen. The (cheaper) movies tend to rely on a lot of flame and not much force in their explosive scenes, because it's safer to burn a few gallons of gas than to explode a real bomb. It makes a lot of effects shots look the same, a big slow fireball, completely unlike an actual high explosive blast.
In the WTC disaster, it really was a fuel burn, so that's my guess as to why the art looks so much the same.
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