Church of Misery 2012 european tour

Rich — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:10:37 +0000

The guys from Church of Misery are heading for Europe again in a few months.
Be sure to go and check these awesome Doomrockers live.

I’ve just finished the poster.

(Click to enlarge)

Maryland Deathfest X Poster(s) on the way.

Rich — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:48:22 +0000

With pleasure I can announce that I will be doing a few special variant posters for the tenth edition of Maryland Deathfest.
As some of you know, part of my roots are in Deathmetal (as founding member of bands like Disembowel and Acrostichon).

So for me personally these upcoming posters are a back to the roots thing, but with a difference.
It’s more than 20 years ago now when I did my first deathmetal artwork and my style has matured considerably.

About the festival, I attended the 2010 edition myself and had an awesome time, seeing some great old-school bands and I discovered some new ones so I ‘m honored to be part of this great event.

Maryland Deathfest site
MDF on facebook

……..and I’ve got more deathmetal artwork news on the way so check back!

I’ll keep you posted.

2012

Rich — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:02:26 +0000

It might seam I’m not doing much judging from my lack of news, but nothing could be further from reality.
I’m working at several things at the same time right now so you can expect quite a lot of updates fairly soon!

The end of a busy year

Rich — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:05:21 +0000

2011 was quite a busy years for me.

I got to work for some of my fave bands and met a lot of fun and interesting people. Hell, I even started a new music project (House of Exorcism) that is taking off pretty good.

Since this seams to be the week of listmaking, and I’m not really into doing lists, I thought it would be a lot more fun if I just select my personal faves among my output of this year. It wasn’t easy to make a selection because damn, I really painted a lot this year.

Well, here they are, my fave paintings of 2011.

Exciting news indeed! Acrostichon (my band), The Gathering and Pentacle live at W2, NL

Rich — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:09:45 +0000

I know, it sounds like April fools, but it sure isn’t! Check this:

Thanks to a post on Facebook, Acrostichon and The Gathering ran into each other.

Of course we talked a lot about the good old days, especially the ones we had at the Willem II concert hall in Den Bosch. There was a matinee gig every month (I think it was every last sunday), and we saw some great bands such as Candlemass, Morbid Angel, Death, and of course we played there as well. Those days were so much fun. We had a great nostalgic trip talking about those days. Soon we came to the conclusion we would love to do this again! As you might know our debut album “Engraved in Black” (that got the Re-issue treatment recently on Memento Mori Records) was recorded 20 years ago in 1992. The bands gathered and immediatly liked the idea to do something together. An old school Doom/Death party! The Gathering released their debut album ‘Always’ almost the same period, and our friends from Pentacle released their debut demo “Caressed by Both Sides” as well 20 years ago. Why not celebrate this?
So, grab your agenda: The Gathering, Acrostichon and Pentacle will play live together at the Willem II (now called W2) sunday afternoon 1st of april (no joke!) 2012! Like 20 years ago, Acrostichon will be headlining, The Gathering and Pentacle will be support acts.
Last but definitly not least: All profit will go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

www.w2.nl
www.gathering.nl
www.acrostichon.nl
www.pentacle.nl

On Roadburn.com

——-IN DUTCH——

Heimwee naar de legendarische zondagmiddagen in de Willem 2 die gevuld waren met een portie goede muziek, bier en gezelligheid? Dit is je kans om het nog allemaal nog eens over te doen. Deze middag staan er 3 oldschool deathmetal bands in de W2 met nostalgische redenen om die feestjes van 20 jaar geleden nog eens fijntjes over te doen. Het is dit jaar namelijk 20 jaar geleden dat Acrostichon hun debuutalbum “Engraved in Black” opnam , dat het debuutalbum “Always” van The Gathering uitkwam en dat Pentacle aan de weg ging timmeren door de release van de demo “Caressed by Both Sides”. Redenen genoeg dus voor een ouderwets oldschool Brabants death metal feestje !! Verder zijn er nog een paar speciale gastoptredens gepland die jullie zeker niet willen missen. De totale opbrengst van deze middag komt geheel ten goede aan de stichting Cystic Fibrosis.

Dit wordt een zeer speciale middag want The Gathering gaat ter ere van het 20 jarig jubileum van Always eenmalig in de bezetting van de eerste cd nl. Hans, Rene, Bart, Jelmer, Hugo, Marike en Frank een aantal nummers van deze legendarische cd ten gehore brengen . Deze klassieker stond aan de wieg van een zeer succesvolle carriere .

Acrostichon viert het 20 jarig jubileum door te laten zien en horen dat hun debuut Engraved in Black glansrijk de tand des tijds heeft doorstaan en dat deze cd nog steeds staat als een huis. Ze zijn sinds 2009 weer bij elkaar maar spelen slechts zeer occasioneel. Ook zij spelen in de bezetting van hun debuut cd nl. Corinne, Richard, Jos en Serge.

Pentacle speelt ook al meer dan 20 jaar Ancient death metal in de stijl van Celtic Frost en Possessed dus deze geroutineerde muzikanten zullen zeker een gedegen show neerzetten . Wannes en kornuiten hebben niks aan enthousiasme verloren en dat bewijzen ze door zoals altijd een zeer energieke show neer te zetten.

New flyer artwork

Rich — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:29:57 +0000

I did this painting for a very special event.

More about the event and the final flyer design will pop up here upcoming tuesday, be sure to check it out!

M-inc cover update

Rich — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:16:49 +0000

I’ve been working on a cover for the Florida-based Deathmetal band M-inc. I painted it in black and white and colored it digitally. I made a few different colored versions. A final choice hasen’t been made yet so here are all 3 versions I did:
(Click on the thunbnails for a larger version)

The original B&W painting:

Black & whte with red:

Full color with grey blackground:

Full color with blue background:

Hair

Rich — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:45:51 +0000

I’m working on the M inc cover right now. The painting is going to be pretty sick!

I was figuring out what type of hairstyle to use on the cover and I did this little study to practice long hair.
I liked the result so I thought I’d show some “behind the scenes” work and post this one here.
Thanks Lorena

Upcoming Album cover for Florida based M inc.

Rich — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:38:23 +0000

I’m glad to say that I’ve been asked to do the cover for the debut album of Florida based, ”M inc”

I’ve already sketched out the base for the cover and let me tell you, the sketch we have agreed on is pretty sick!

For those who are not familiar with the band, check ‘m out here: M inc

(“M”) INC. the new Orlando, Florida-based band featuring former Mantas/Death/Massacre guitarist Rick Rozz DeLillo was formed by Rick and drummer Mike Mazzonetto (Pain Principle) in August 2009. Rick and Mike soon teamed up with Tim Vazquez (Devolve, CGM Studios) and Chris Jack (Devolve)

DEBUT RELEASE: TASTE THE HATE scheduled Nov. 2011

Re-issued Acrostichon Engraved in Black album – OUT NOW!!!

Rich — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:29:24 +0000

Get it while you can, here: Memento-mori.es

The CD features the classic 1992 album, a couple of studio and live bonus tracks and my new artwork