This week, evil artist Mike Hrubovcak presents the cover for the upcoming Sinister album The Silent Howling. The disc, the follow-up to the Dutch death metal band’s 2006 reunion album, Afterburner, will be recorded in May and is tentatively scheduled for release this fall.
Now, here’s Hrubovcak to explain the method to his madness:
I’ve been in touch with Sinister singer (and former drummer) Aad Kloosterwaad for years. We wrote letters through snail mail back in the day when I was first in the band Divine Rapture. Since then, we’ve chatted a bunch, and he hired me to do a logo for his other band Infinited Hate. I had the chance to meet him at the FTC festival in Germany last year when the band I sing for, Monstrosity, co-headlined the first night with Sinister. However, I was so sick that weekend from the flight over that I spent most of the time
sweating my ass off with a fever in my sleeping bag and never got the chance to actually hang out.
Even so, he asked me to do Sinister’s newest cover for Massacre Records, and I was more than happy. I’ve always been a big Sinister fan, so this was a real honor. Aad said he wanted the art to depict two demons in a graveyard huddled around the graves with corpse’s hands holding crosses coming out of the ground. The religious people dead and buried are the “silent howling.” Like most of my artwork, this was done digitally in Photoshop using mixed media / photo manipulation / airbrush with the wacom tablet.
February 6th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
ohhh! i f’n love this one!!
May 14th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
I’m trying to find Mike Hrubovcak that went to Garnet Valley High. Is this him?