Nightmare Visions: The Inception, Incubation and Birth of Mortician’s 2005 Offering ‘Re-Animated Dead Flesh’

Here’s Monstrosity death growler and deviant Visual Darkness artist Mike Hrubovcac to tell us about what he’s up to and how he put together the grisly art for Mortician’s 2005 album Re-Animated Dead Flesh. Click “more” for the compete lowdown and some pretty rad pics.

Nightmare Visions With Mike Hrubovcak

This cover was done for the band Being Killed. I also did their previous album cover, which also featured zombies. This time around, they gave me the title concept, which was “Kill Yourself,” and instead of illustrating a man shooting himself after being trapped by zombies, I decided to do something different. It’s less […]

Nightmare Visions: Exhuming Dead Leads to Early Grave

This week, our resident artist, Mike Hrubovcak of visualdarkness.com checks in with a piece he’s rendered for an upcoming Grave compilation that’s scheduled for release in October on Century Media.
The album will unearth some of the band’s most popular songs as well as a lot of the old classics from their earlier CDs. I grew […]

Nightmare Visions: If You’re Offended By This Detail From the Upcoming XXX Maniak/Coffins Split CD…

The latest submission by horror artist Mike Hrubovcak reminds us of a classic scene in the film “This is Spinal Tap,” in which the band’s publicist. Bobbi Flekman, presents the group with the first pressings of their record “Smell the Glove.” The artwork for the cover is completely black and the band react in horror. […]

Nightmare Visions: The Occult Imagery of No Souls Lost

What, no dismembered corpses or senseless acts of atrocious violence? Could graphic artist Mike Hrubovcak be losing his touch? Nah, he’s still totally gifted at creating gory cover art that makes us squirm, but he’s smart enough to give his clients what they ask for, and the frickin’ sissies of Dallas death metal outfit, No […]

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