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Dan Seagrave is a god among men, at least when it comes to pens, pencils, and paint. I’ve slobbered over his artwork before — for example, in this review of Wretched’s Beyond the Gate in 2010, which included many examples of his album art at the end. But I got a fresh reminder this morning when Rev. Will sent me a link to that stunner up above.

I had to do some net sleuthing to find out what it was. Turns out it’s the cover art to a 2011 album called Facet of Aberration by a thrash band from the Bay Area called Invection. I hadn’t heard of them before, but I’m throwing in some of their music after the jump.

As for Mr. Seagrave’s artwork, there’s a fan-sponsored page on Facebook, the creator of which has been adding album art — without any band logos or album titles to obscure the sheer brutal goodness of the artwork. As of a few minutes ago, that page included 65 pieces of album art. You can gaze upon all of that via this link. And after the jump, you can see a few more examples I haven’t previously posted at NCS.

Dan Seagrave has a merch store here and a personal Facebook page here.

Before we get to the Invection music and more of Master Seagrave’s art, here’s a Seagrave painting that isn’t an album cover but is gobsmackingly good. It’s from the “Temple Series” and is called “Drive By”.

Next . . . music from Invection’s album, which is being sold as a CD here.

“Impulsive Violence”

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“Derealization”

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/30448091″ iframe=”true” /]

“Two Faced Lie”

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/27692317″ iframe=”true” /]

And finally . . . more Seagrave album covers. Hover your mouse over the images to see the names of the albums.

  6 Responses to “EYE-CATCHERS: DAN SEAGRAVE”

  1. And don’t forget his album covers for Warbringer and Decrepit Birth, which certainly bear the hallmarks of his work.

    • Absolutely. I just added the Warbringer cover above. The Decrepit Birth was in the last post where I gathered examples of his cover art.

      • And you know what? Invection sounds pretty decent, although the music gets a little monotonous towards the climax.

  2. This artwork is so sick and twisted! Dan Seagrave is the man, even his last name sounds brutal!

  3. Seagrave is a maniac! Cool! So many times I tried to copy his style hehe None of them was successful 🙂 Originality, style, atmosphere…

    • I had the pleasure of meeting him at Maryland Deathfest two days ago. He was in the biggest merch tent signing autographed prints. Amazing artist.

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