With an album title like Erection Body Mutilated (Back From the Dead), who else can you count on but death metal frontman and sicko artist Mike Hrubovcac to pen art work that's repulsively appropriate? The cover rendering in question was commissioned by French hardcore industrial group Obszon Geschopf and features two mutilated corpses laying under sheets on autopsy tables in the morgue. We'll let Hrubovcac explain the rest:
Obszon Geschopf frontman Remzi Kelleci wanted something along the lines of cover art I had done for Guttural Secrete and Mortician. Apparently, he's a big fan of gore, death-metal and zombies. For distribution reasons, though, the label wanted to keep it dark and creepy without being overly graphic or gory. They didn't want to run into any the same kind of censorship problems as a lot of the bands that have commissioned me for gory artwork. (click "more" to read more commentary and see the gory art). Read more...
Here's the latest nightmarish image by the guru of gore, Mike Hrubovcac. And now a brief description of what the hell he was thinking when he designed this demon for Sinister:
After completing the album cover illustration and packaging design for the new Sinister album, The Silent Howling, I was asked to also do a series of t-shirts around the new album concept as well. Sinister have always incorporated demons into their imagery. Now, with this new album having two 'sinister' looking demon creatures in a church graveyard, we decided to take the scene out of the cemetery and up onto the top of the church steeple. A demon stands clinging to the top of the burning church steeple after ripping off the cross that once adorned it, which is now mockingly displayed inverted within the grasp of the demon.
Other shirt designs are currently underway, but for now you can get your hands on the new album which was released on CD and Digipak through Massacre Records this past month.
Click "more" to stream "Summit of Sacrifice" and "Fortified Bravery" from the latest Sinister album, The Silent Howling. Read more...
