Intense and stimulating I have been studying scenic painting at the Art School of Dresden for 4 years. Initially I designed band covers and t-shirts as well as large backdrops. Within my studies I got the opportunity to improve my skills and create large scale artworks by using innovative techniques. I use oil and acrylic…
Rotten to the core Despite numerous band changes and one album hiccup, Aborted have been highly regarded by the death metal community. In 20 years of career they have always manage to deliver a good dose of brutal metal dashed with enough gore. The band seems to be in excellent shape and their new album…
Swimming in the pool of creativity I’m was born in France 1974. I discovered rock ‘n’ roll soon after that with old heavy metal records (Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, etc.) and then with punk and thrash metal. I started drawing around the same time or just before. I’ve no art school background, I…
I draw it so you don’t have to I started off working for bands that I was friendly with such as Manchester’s sadly missed The Freezing Fog for whom I provided the artwork to their last release, the magnificent Challenger EP. I then expanded this by asking friends if they knew of any bands that…
Exploring your inner-self and expressing what you find in there I’ve been drawing my whole life essentially, from an early age of 8 or 9 I kind of knew that it would be my future. My earliest drawing or artwork that I remember was a stick-figure drawing of the Backstreet Boys (my favourite band at…
Mastermind Luc Lemay comments: “As our EP ‘Pleiades’ Dust’ consists out of a single long narrative composition, it was not written with the intention of being edited in segments. As the storyline proceeds in chapters though, I was able to isolate this part called ‘Wandering Times’ which will give the listener a good idea of…
Afraid of Going to Hell American melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder is now back with a brand new album Abysmal, the 7th release since their formation in 2001. As one of the most contemporary popular death metal bands, they are constantly very busy touring and I had the pleasure to have a…
I learned to believe more in me As a child, I always been an autodidact and I enjoyed watching other drawings and paintings while thinking how did this or that. I had no academic artistic training or books available to me at that time, then always depended on me all kinds of advance. Then I…
Drawing visions I am obsessed with I have been drawing since I was a child. I grew up playing video games so I began to draw characters and landscapes with atmospheres I was sensitive to. My student work was too weak to access art schools, and quite disconnected from reality. In 2011, I did a…
I draw with passion, I give all my heart when I work on a design I’m from France and live in Paris. I have been drawing since I was a kid. I discovered heavy metal with Iron Maiden at the library. I saw Eddie, on the cover of the ‘No prayer for the dying’ album…
It’s all about Death and Chaos Misanthropic-Art started out as a hobby and by coincident. A friend of mine asked me if I could draw him a band logo. I eventually also did an album cover for him. After that I worked for a couple of friends which gave me some exposure within the scene…
The Bringing of Light Black breath formed in 2006 out of accretion of the digest for this so-called civilization and have been raging ever since. HMA: Welcome Black Breath to Heavy Music Artwork. So who are the ‘Slaves Beyond Death’? Neil McAdams: Enjoy what little joy you may take from this life because soon we…
Art is an expression of taking the internal world and projecting it into visual form I started doing graphic design about 3-4 years ago in high school for local bands and for my own personal music projects. Eventually I progressed to more advanced styles of art and started working for larger bands outside of my…
Angels of Death Seattle’s premier thrash band, formed in 2002. Fallen Angels have continued to be part of the underground music scene throughout the Pacific Northwest of the US since their inception, garnering growing respect from their peers in the metal scene and new fans with every show. In 2007 their music grabbed the attention…
Art should be self indulgent I’ve drawn ever since I could hold a pencil. I know it’s cliche, but it’s true. As far as I can remember it’s always been the weird stuff, monsters and demons etc. I’m really grateful that my parents let me roll with it from a young age, and just kept…
A good packaging can lift the experience I studied something called Technical Illustration for 2 years. It was all about building instructions (think IKEA), exploded views (think Volvo engines) and also illustrations for newspapers etc. I added one year of Computer Graphics. As so many others I had a dream that once in my life…
Life without art would be meaningless My name is Federico Bossinga, I’m currently 28 years old and I live in La Plata, Argentina. I started on my own when I was very young, I was like 14 if I remember correctly. I started playing around with some low-quality image editors until a friend introduced me…