Visual Darkness dungeon keeper Mike Hrubovcak rocking with Vile
When denizen of the Underworld, Mike Hrubovcak, isn’t fronting death metal bands Monstrosity or Vile, he’s hunched over a Mac in his darkened cave creating ghastly heavy metal art to sicken the world. Recently, he’s been spending a fair amount of time creating t-shirts, prints and posters of his designs to sell via his online store. But he’s still found time to create some new illustrations for various groups. Click “more” to see the art work he’s recently done for the new album by Rumpelstiltskin Grinder and to hear his thoughts on the images.
Back in 2005, I did the above cover for Rumpelstiltskin Grinder’s album “Buried in the Front Yard…”, which featured a wild-eyed psychotic Rumpelstiltskin burying bodies. Now its time to take it to the next level. Here’s a sneak peak at the NEW Rumpelstiltskin Grinder album cover for Relapse Records.
Living For Death, Destroying The Rest will be released sometime early 2009. I’m still working on the packaging layout, but I think this cover is the craziest concept to come out in a long time, as well as the hardest (but most enjoyable) cover I’ve created to date. This cover will fold out into a two page spread and the packaging art will be as crazy as the band themselves. Here are some details from the art work.
These guys are comical enough with the concepts to grab your attention, but have the intense brutality to smash your face with their bludgeoning music. All of the elements of the new art pertain to the lyrical content and stories on the new album. We have the “Cyclops” busting out of the ground in the middle of a city street, “Rumpelstiltskin” on his shoulder (commanding the attack), “Todd the Harpoon Wilson” and “Merman” oddly joining forces together to combat the invasion of underground minions, as well as the ghostly skull from the first track on the CD, “Nothing Defeats the Skull.” Other tracks on the album include “Fiends in the Mountain, Ghouls in the Valley”, “Beware the Thrash Brigade” and “Revolution of Underground Legions.”
