It's been a minute since we've heard from our favorite demented artist, Mike Hrubovcak, vocalist for Monstrosity and Vile and owner of bad-ass design company Visual Darkness. So, to reacquaint you all with the master of the macabre (assuming that label's not already taken by someone like George Romero), here's a long-overdue Nightmare Visions entry from Hrubovcak. Click more if you want to risk a long, sleepless night. Read more...

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.

Click "more" for Hrubovcak's twisted art work and commentary. Read more...

When he's not touring or recording with Monstrosity or Vile, vocalist Mike Hrubovcac is creating ghoulish and ghastly art work for with his company Visual Darkness and sending some of it our way for "Nightmare Visions."

This week, he emailed us some nauseating cover art he designed for Cerebral Incubation. Click "more" to view the art and read what was going on in Hrubovcac's demented mind. Read more...

Here's our favorite demented heavy metal illustrator Mike Hrubovcak of Visualdarkness.com to tell us all about his latest designs for Dutch death grind band Inhume, which will launch a European tour on Halloween. Click "more" to see the merch Mike designed for their road trip: Read more...

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. Read more...

Visual Darkness lairkeeper, Mike Hrubovcak checks in with his latest splatterfest. And after the spiritual Zenfest he send us last time, it's good to see him back to his old, violent self..

Its been a while since I've made any "Nightmare Visions" posts, and for this I apologize. Touring and band duties [with Monstrosity and Vile] have been consuming most of my days, but I thought I'd take some time out and share a sneak peak into the album packaging layout for the new Sinister album, which comes out August 22 on Massacre Records.

It will be a 16 page booklet, and will also be released as a special Limited Edition Digipak! I had the honor of hearing some of the new songs, and let me just tell you - this new album is massive! They have truly progressed and I think most Sinister fans will be pleasantly surprised.

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Mike Hrubovcak is best known for his ghastly gore-grind artwork, which has featured mangled bodies, undead atrocities and nauseating acts of female mutilation (among other things). So, we made sure our stomachs weren't full when we opened his latest file for "Nightmare Visions." We were expecting the worst -- desecrated graves, bashed in faces, showers of blood -- but we were still shocked by what we saw. Read more...