Promoting metal as art and culture
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…
The Devil in the Mirror Mirror is the musical brainchild of bassist and die-hard metal master Tas Danazoglou (Electric Wizard, Satan’s Wrath). A chance meeting with London-based producer and drummer Jaime Gomez Arellano led to the two embarking on a shared musical vision that encompasses classic hard-rock, proto-metal sound with tasteful songwriting and musicianship. Guitarist…
Every work I produce has a piece of my inner-self I’m self-taught artist and never had any formal education in art. I’ve always been drawing and painting since childhood. I started working in early 2000 in a small studio, producing storyboards and layouts for advertisements. Besides that, I keep creating my personal works, and some…
Northern Dark blues Dead Soul is a duo from Sweden founded by vocalist and guitarist Anders Landelius and producer Nielsen. Their first single ‘They Will Pay’ was released in 2012 under Razzia Notes label, owned by Anders Fridén of In Flames. In the same year they gained popularity opening up for Ghost as a support…
MACABRA are proud to reveal the artwork for their second full-length recording ‘…to the Bone’ via Vonfrost Records and Morbid Visions Music this spring/summer. The elaborate cover artwork is delivered by Dan Seagrave who is well known in the death metal community for painting covers of classic albums by bands like Morbid Angel, Entombed, Malevolent…
Drawing surgically into the details I’m from Napoli born into Christian culture but raised religion-free. My art started on school desks, school walls, street walls… My taste for horror and metal is something that I always had with me. I attended classic studies, nothing to do with art. Subjects included Latin, Greek, philosophy, history, etc.…
Songs in their own world Sanguine is a hard-hitting driving metal and rock riffs, mixtures of melodies, vocal ranges which include screams and singing both from front-woman Tarin Kerrey and guitarist Nick Magee. Sanguine has created a new unique sound, jumping between styles their eclectic songwriting keep you guessing what the next track will sound…
Consisting of three self-titled pieces of a triadic whole, the roots to SUNN O)))’s new album trace deeply into the sessions of their 2009-released Monoliths & Dimensions LP and very recent collaborative recordings with Ulver (Terrestrials, 2014) and Scott Walker (Soused, 2015), culminated and fully realized this year. Recorded and mixed with SUNN O)))’s close…
“People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?”Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005― Lemmy Kilmister “Apparently people don’t like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because…
Painted in Blood: An exhibition of metal artworks by Thomas Ewerhard (Avantasia, Volbeat, Amon Amarth, Spock’s Beard, Jon Oliva etc.), Jan Meininghaus (Kreator, Bolt Thrower, Overkill, Accept etc.) and Björn Gooßes (Dew-Scented, Hackneyed, Pendragon, Hatesphere etc.). Feb 5th – Mar 4th, 2016, Sold Out Gallery, Königsallee 16, 44789 Bochum, Germany Grand opening on Friday, Feb…
I am the virus Formed in 1978, Killing Joke is a post-punk band which provides a unique combination of punk, metal and industrial gothic music. HMA spent some time in Brighton with legendary frontman Jaz Coleman for a deep chat about ‘Pylon’, symbolism and spectrum dominance from the corporate world HMA: Hi Jaz and welcome…
Crowd-funding “Bloodlines” An interview with Vincent Castiglia and John Borowski. Many people know that the “And Justice For Art” book was printed thanks to a crowd-funding campaign. That’s why we understand the importance of being supported by the public in order to put together projects that otherwise could be difficult achieve. The promising documentary “Bloodlines:…
Californian extreme metallers, Cattle Decapitation, and irreverent American illustrator, Wes Benscoter have an uncompromising attitude towards art. That’s probably why their longtime collaboration have proven to be so successful. The first time the band used one of the artist’s twisted visions was for their 2002 opus “To Serve Man.” That was followed by the iconic,…
Elvenking are an Italian folk/power metal on the AFM Records label. ‘The Pagan Manifesto’ is their eighth full length album. Artwork and design for the album comes courtesy of Rhett Podersoo of Machine Room Design. “This album is not just a collection of songs, it’s a piece of life – our fan’s and ours. It…
Venom: Vehicle to Tempation IMPELLITTERI is a heavy metal band based in Los Angeles California. IMPELLITTERI is one of the first bands to combine energetic heavy metal with shred guitar soloing, screaming vocals, strong melody, and big production. To date, the band has sold a few million records worldwide, played to audiences as large as…