Costin Chioreanu is a Romanian graphic designer, illustrator, and video artist. Specializing in graphic design, with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree at the National University of Arts, in Bucharest. Despite his pretty powerful visual identity, his style is still volatile, ranging easily from decorative touches to abstract principles, from traditional black ink illustrations or…
Specialising in horror and science-fiction, his work often includes elements inspired by vintage tales of monsters and madmen, dark futures, post-apocalyptic genres and classic literature including H.P.Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and the modern classics Clive Barker’s Hellraiser and the Books of Blood all of which he has…
Building an emotional momentum, one that rouses the intellectual exercise of questioning one’s vision of reality. While looking at her work the viewer will begin to experience a series of diametrically opposed thoughts and emotions. Initially, you may feel overwhelmed by the obsessively intricate and highly detailed forms, the composition, the technical skill and the…
Born in 1974 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Member of Sweden’s illustrator’s society. Started making illustrations for underground metal bands in the early ’90’s and have since then created a lot of music related artwork (album covers, t-shirt designs). Currently primary involved with motion graphics and animation. Published three books of sketches entitled “Gadus morhua” in the…
Cristina Francov is a Mexican artist and designer. She has been formally working since 2008, creating portraits and landscapes heavily influenced by mythology, music, the occult, wholeness of life and that what is beyond. Her images are otherworldly gateways of matter and spirit that enclose personal symbols and happenings, told and represented by characters that…
Art is Manipulation by Matthew J. Ratcliffe The Loom of Time is a novel blend of black metal, death metal and doom – music that constantly forges forward, but keeps its roots in the unassailable heritage of rock and heavy metal. In a world of passionless, formulaic music, Loom gives us a glimpse of what…
Severe crucifix-masturbation By Frater Flagellum Everyone in the band has lots of years of experience in other bands. Even though “Lecherous Liturgies” is the very first release of Fvneral Fvkk, we sure are no noobs to the game. Each of us has released several albums before, and we have toured a lot. We were (and…
Eliran Kantor was born in Bat-Yam, Israel and grew up in Gan-Yavne. Recently been sharing his time between Germany and his home country. Self-taught artist and illustrator, at age 21 he was hired by the resident advertising firm of one of the biggest media moguls in the country, where Eliran directed and designed the national…
Tomasz Alen Kopera was born in 1976 in Kożuchów, Poland. He attended the University of Technology in Wrocław, where he gained a degree in construction engineering. His artistic talent came to light already in early childhood. Tomasz paints in oil on canvas. Human nature and the mysteries of the Universe are his inspiration. His paintings…
Dan Hillier has most recently had a solo exhibition, ‘Ceremony’, at Saatchi Gallery in London, and has also previously exhibited at Les Musée des Arts Décoritifs at the Louvre in collaboration with Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, with MuTate Britain in London and Glastonbury Festival, and has had a solo show at the Natural History…
By Scott Endres of MAKE I usually just tell people it’s ‘blackened industrial’ because I really have no idea how to describe it. But the word ‘industrial’ has such a specific connotation I never feel like that sits quite right either, even though Pigface’s ‘Gub’ is easily a touchstone for The Pod. It’s really just…
Drew Zaragoza is the front man for LA Power Trio Sinicle. He has led the band for over a decade. Los Angeles power trio Sinicle combine the groove of Heavy Metal, the angst of Rock and the soul of Blues. After 11 years of performing and releasing countless EPs and demos, the band is releasing…
Voices of the north The Nordic-folk trio Kaunan breathe new life into old traditional Scandinavian music, reawakening the ancient realms of pre-Christian folklore by drawing on ancient songs and tunes; odd scales; early folk instruments like the kontrabasharpa, the hurdy-gurdy, various lutes, the lyre, and the bagpipes; and the old Norse myths. After nine years…
Drew Rizzo is the drummer and founder of Trenton, NJ’s own MIDNITE HELLION, a US Heavy Metal band formed in 2011. He eats, breathes, and sleeps Heavy Metal, and here’s a list of a few of the bands that influence MIDNITE HELLION. Some of the influences are also important due to the people he has…
Morke By Gøtsche and SteiN Psy:Code, a 5 member band from Copenhagen, Denmark. Been together as a band for over a decade and friends even longer. Psy: code is driven by unity and constantly seeking to expand their own limits of how they think music should sound like. With high ambitions, they are pushing through…
Cycles of Grief By Kieran Molloy Before Cursed Earth I played the guitar for a bunch of Perth bands that never really went anywhere called Mindless, Protest and Iconoclast. Our new record ‘Cycles of Grief’ came together slowly, early last year when we were most of the way through putting together the demos for the…
There were no specific directions, the band gave me total freedom to provide my interpretation of the title. I interpreted ‘End of a chapter’ as plain death. And I wanted to tell a poetic story based on this very simple, universal fact that death is. And I think the Styx/Charon myth is poetic. I was…
Optimism in the face of adversity Heterochrome started working when Mohammadreza Rezaei and Mida met each other and collaborated in writing the music they liked as the lead guitarist and vocalist back in 2014. They wrote songs and jammed with various musicians. The band started forming when Mohammad Mirboland joined the band as the drummer.…
From the depths of oceanic conscience Moonloop was born in 2001 in Barcelona (Spain) and plays progressive Death Metal distinguished by powerful and technical guitar riffs, atmospheric landscapes, clean/growl vocals, changing rhythm patterns, and also psychedelic lead guitar passages.The band line up is Eric Baulenas (vocals, lead & rhythm guitars, synths), Juanjo Martín (rhythm guitar,…
‘Cirice’ concept was inspirited by Brian De Palma film ‘Carrie’. The idea originated with Papa himself. He wanted to set the video in a school and do a talent show gone awry. Carrie was definitely the visual inspiration that myself and the DoP Sing Howe Yam settled on. They are the parents of the young…