Art for Darkthrone 'Duke of Gloat'
promo: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMEqcvQQ5s0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6h4b-Jm8iU

The legendary Norwegian longstanding partnership of Fenriz and Ted “Nocturno Culto” Skjellum, return with their first studio album since 2016’s hugely popular ‘Arctic Thunder’, in the shape of ‘Old Star’. With a mastery and endless dedication to the art of the riff, the Norwegian legends cut through 6 new epic tracks, taking in the best of the old school of heavy & extreme metal plus a large dose of doom-laden riffing, & channelling it through the grime of the underground.
Fenriz enthuses «Old star – again we are here with THE RIFFS! A while after our previous ARCTIC THUNDER album it became apparent that we would continue in that same style, BLACK OLD HEAVY METAL with slow thrash, classic doom and slow death metal.
As many have focussed on the 70s sound over the last 20 years, the mix on our new album has ended up being more 80s than ever. The songs are more metal than ever! Ted’s songs have alot of black metal in them, faster and slower but also doomier parts and reocurring parts. My songs are more linear written, it’s an ancient 80s underground trick, with breaks, all slow heavy or slow thrash, classic doom or slow death.»
He continues «All in all it is our most 80s album so far and our most metal one to date with drum sound typical for the 80s USA/German market and damned lyrics, which are all written by me. We feel that OLD STAR is the big brother of ARCTIC THUNDER. More solid and with even better riffs.»

​Old Star was recorded at the band’s Necrohell 2 Studios, with engineering and production duties carried out by vocalist/guitarist Nocturno Culto, complemented with a perfectly organic mix courtesy of Sanford Parker (Voivod) at Hypercube Studios, & mastered once more by Jack Control at Enormous Door. The stellar cover artistry comes courtesy of Chadwick St John, titled “The Shepherd of the Deep”.
Over the course of 30 years, Norway’s Darkthrone has become a staple of the global black metal genre, forging a legacy as one of the most renowned and influential bands in its illustrious & often infamous history. In the formative years following their 1987 inception, Darkthrone initially started with a strong concoction of thrash & then death/doom metal experimentation, with broader musical influences spanning from the 60s to the 80s, before the debut album Soulside Journey was unleashed in 1991. Never ones to follow convention or stand still even then, the band soon embraced a much darker, more primitive form of expression with the now iconic second album A Blaze in the Northern Sky, & the rest became history.

WERIAN album details:
Historically, Animist is the world’s oldest religious belief – predating all forms of organized religion – and contains the oldest spiritual and supernatural perspective in the world. Combining atmospheric black metal and doom with the psychedelic experiences of desert rock and jazz fusion, WERIAN craft a stellar introduction using themes of shamanism, lycanthropy and consciousness.
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Tracklisting:
1 – Hex             2 – Blade of Heresy          3 – March through Ruins

Recorded in a live setting at Nürnberg’s Tonstudio Katzer (Venenum), Animist is a gorgeous display of three harrowing tracks using only analogue devices and was meant to sound as pure and organic as possible. The album’s unique black-and-white hand-drawn cover art was inked by Chadwick St. John (Grafvitnir, Svartsyn, Arckanum, Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation), who also contributed intros to the album’s emanations.

WERIAN - Animist, CD/2xLP/CS/Digital/Merch (22.02.2019)

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Original art details:
  pen, brush, ink on bristol board  12 x 18 inches

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Wolf of the Eclipse.
With an ominous full moon hovering above in its radiance, and certain astrological and numerological aspects appropriate this cold night of late November, we decide the time to be most suitable to share the first song from our upcoming album, to be released early next year, titled Venenum Scorpionis.

Both artwork by masterful Daniele Valeriani and recordings by GRAFVITNIR and Chadwick St. John
were completed in early 2017, but our schedules have been busy and the time has not been ripe.
Until now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch…

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Audio and Art finished for band
WERIAN (Germany).

Album planned for early 2019 release.
https://werian.bandcamp.com/
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Documenting the 35th anniversary and reunion of the original 5 members performing the album 'STOP THIS WAR' as well as many other heavy metal classics.  Filmed in Toledo, Ohio on September 22 2018.  Including  interviews, rehearsal, live show footage and more.   Still in progress.  Look for updates.

Featured art and writing in the book Arte Arcana

Arte Divina highlighted divinity and the holy act of creativity. Arte Arcana focus on the dark side of the arts from whatever philosophical source artists draw their inspiration. Speaking across cultures and traditions is difficult to say what can be considered "dark". We invite artists to share their visions, interpretations, critiques, thoughts and discussions.

'Arte Arcana' In approximate numbers, 60 artists, Extended articles, 240 pages (approx)
500 high-quality art images,  300 Limited Editions,  Hardback gloss finish,  200 gms high gloss
260mm deep x 210mm wide,  Hand numbered and embossed!

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Contributing audio nightmares for the next album from the black/doom metal band WERIAN of Germany.
Coming 2018!