When Mike Hrubovcak isn't onstage with death metal band Monstrosity, chances are he's on his computer designing horrific cover art for some gore-grind group most people have never heard of. From time to time he'll email a file to us in an effort to make us lose our lunches, and whether he succeeds or not, we'll post the thing to see if we can make our readers lose their lunches. Call it pay it forward.
So, for the final "Nightmare Visions" column of 2008, Hrubovcak and HeadbangersBlog.com proudly present the new cover art for Chainsaw Dissection's Eviscerated by a Ravenous Cannibal.
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This is my fourth album cover for Chainsaw Dissection. Coptercrash Records will release this and two of the band's previous albums, Zombie Decimation and Remnants of the Slaughtered. Chainsaw Dissection is one of the first gore-grind bands I worked with back in the day, and for Zombie Decimation I created the cover art of zombies ripping apart and gutting helpless victims in a cemetery.
The last album I did for the band was less in your face and more subdued and creepy, which I kinda favored. It featured a river of blood and viscera silently floating down a river in the middle of the woods. Perhaps that cover kinda fits in well with this newest illustration, which depicts an insane inbred hillbilly in the middle of the woods gutting his victims next to a warm bone-filled bonfire and toolshed containing body parts. I can kinda picture the last album cover taking place in the background beyond the trees (the river of blood) as, like, an aftermath of the constant horrors that take place in this murderer's secluded campground.
I added in a pig's head nailed to a tree with a joint or cigarette in its mouth and darts stuck in its skull. I had actually seen that done once for real at some underground punk show in backwoods Salisbury, Maryland, so I thought I'd put it in there 'cause I thought it was kinda creepy and it popped in my head while I was working on this.
Other Chainsaw Dissection Cover Art by Hrubovcak
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