Motorhead – Another Perfect Day Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road Black Sabbath – Sabotage Black Sabbath – Mob Rules Sunn O))) – Metta, Benevolence BBC 6 Music Lamp of Murmuur – Submission And Slavery Akhlys – Melinoe Machine Head – Unto The Locust Exciter – Violence And Force Enslaved – Heimdal
Motorhead – Another Perfect Day
Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road
Black Sabbath – Sabotage
Black Sabbath – Mob Rules
Sunn O))) – Metta, Benevolence BBC 6 Music: Live on the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs
Lamp of Murmuur – Submission And Slavery
Akhlys – Melinoe
Machine Head – Unto The Locust
Exciter – Violence And Force
Enslaved – Heimdal
2023 dual photo challenge: 1) a photo taken in or around your workspace at dawn or twilight 2) a ‘direct sunlight’ backlight-selfie.
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters Blut Aus Nord – Hallucinogen Spectral Wound – A Diabolic Thirst Tool – Fear Inoculum Ultha – All That Has Never been True Talk Talk – Laughing Stock Slipknot – Iowa Judas Priest – Stained Class Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion Candlemass – Nightfall
Wolves in the Throne Room – Two Hunters
Blut Aus Nord – Hallucinogen
Spectral Wound – A Diabolic Thirst
Tool – Fear Inoculum
Ultha – All That Has Never been True
Talk Talk – Laughing Stock
Slipknot – Iowa
Judas Priest – Stained Class
Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion
Candlemass – Nightfall
This years photo challange: INTERLOCUTOR > Snap two identical photo’s of the chair you sit on when you assess your days work: one with you on it and one without: <
Emperor – In The Nightside Eclipse Dissection – Storm Of The Light’s Bane The Limit – Caveman Logic Corrosion Of Conformity – America’s Volume Dealer Fates Warning – Awaken The Guardian Liege Lord – Burn To My Touch Nina Hagen – Nunsexmonkrock Mr Bungle – The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Joshua – Surrender Monster Magnet – A Better Dystopia
Pencil: It all started with a pencil, and to this day, everything I make still starts with a pencil. It is one of the most pleasurable parts of my process: starting with a sharp, hard (5B or 2B) pencil on a thin piece of bright white A4. The first lines are always very light, then I keep polishing the lines with softer pencils (F or B). The paper starts to wear thin on some parts, softening the surface. For my typography I always start on 1 mm squared paper, and I love bending the lines between the grid. My dear friend and colleague Peter Pontiac once said that drawing is like ice-skating: ‘On a lousy day everything’s terrible, but when it all goes smoothly… it’s the best feeling in the world’.
Acrylic paint: Once I learned how to work with acrylic paint during art school, I had a steady base for most of my work. Before that, I used ecoline (coloured ink, not water proof). One mistake could mess up the entire drawing. With acrylics, I could just add another layer, and build my images more systematically.
Wacom: I worked strictly manually until it was no longer possible to maintain. Drawing by hand was always so much more attractive than looking at a screen and touching buttons. The shape of the mouse was terribly inconvenient, since I had been holding pens, pencils and brushes for twenty-plus years. It was only when the Wacom tablet arrived, I started working digitally. Now I have a hybrid way of working; switching back and forth from digital to analogue during the process.
Triptykon with the Metropole Orkest – Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019) Oranssi Pazuzu – Mestarin Kynsi Sunn O))) – Pyroclasts Enslaved – Utgard Kvelertak – Splid Ministry – Houses of the Mole Judas Priest – Sin After Sin Led Zeppelin – In through the Out Door Guns ‘n’ Roses – Use Your Illusion I & II Abattoir – Vicious Attack
Triptykon with the Metropole Orkest – ‘Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)’
Gaahls Wyrd – GastiR – Ghosts Invited Sunn O))) – Life Metal The Claypool Lennon Delirium – South Of Reality Vltimas – Something Wicked Marches In Emperor – Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk Radiohead – Moon Shaped Pool Talk Talk – Laughing Stock Iron Maiden – Killers Burzum – Filosofem Thorns – Thorns
1 Alkaloid – Liquid Anatomy 2 Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse 3 Tribulation – Down Below 4 Sunn O))) – Oracle 5 Wayne Shorter – Adam’s Apple 6 Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti 7 Type O Negative – October Rust 8 Ozzy Osbourne – Diary of a Madman 9 Sacred Reich – Surf Nicaragua 10 Savatage – Power of the Night
1 Alkaloid – Liquid Anatomy
2 Watain – ‘Trident Wolf Eclipse’
3 Tribulation – ‘Down Below’
4 Sunn O))) – ‘Oracle’
5 Wayne Shorter – ‘Adam’s Apple’
6 Led Zeppelin ‘Physical Graffiti’
7 Type O Negative – ‘October Rust’
8 Ozzy Osbourne – ‘Diary of a Madman’
9 Sacred Reich – ‘Surf Nicaragua’
10 Savatage – ‘Power of the Night’
2018 photo request: “The Ear of the Artist” Send me a photo of your right ear.
1 The Hives – The Black and White Album 2 Primordial – Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand’ & ‘To the Nameless Dead 3 Obituary – Obituary 4 Ambarchi / O’ Malley / Dunn – Shade Themes from Kairos 5 Miles Davis – Dark Magus 6 The Charm the Fury – The Sick, Dumb & Happy 7 Cirith Ungol – Paradise Lost 7 Cypress Hill – Black Sunday 8 David Bowie – Black Star 9 Crimson Glory – Crimson Glory 10 Slipknot – Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses
1 The Hives – ‘The Black and White Album’
2 Primordial – ‘Redemption at the Puritan’s Hand’ & ‘To the Nameless Dead’
3 Obituary – Obituary
4 Ambarchi / O’ Malley / Dunn – ‘Shade Themes from Kairos’
2017 photo request: 1) A photo of the stereo you use in your workspace. 2) To turn it into a ‘real’ studio visit I want to ask you for a 360 degrees panorama photo. Preferably one that also has the floor and the ceiling in it.
