BLACK COBRA

Black Cobra are a thunderous band.
Everytime I see them playing live I’m totally impressed.
I remember some years ago, we were at this festival in Germany and I was on the side of the stage while they were kicking serious ass on stage.
Watching the power of these 2 guys was mind blowing.
Super cool!
When Rafa (the drummer) contacted us some weeks ago asking if we wanted to work on a poster for their european tour starting tomorrow from Paris (and check the other dates here) we were totally excited.
We needed to work on something that could represent their power and the energy they transmit, so we thought about something divine.
Something that could be related to a god and a snake and we came out with the Quetzalcoatl idea cause this aztec/mayan deity was considered the creator  of Mankind that came out from his blood.
We worked on a “malleusdelic version” giving birth to a female goddess and when we showed the sketch to the band, they told us they love Aztec and Mayan culture, so we moved on to the silkscreening:-)
We worked on a cream paper for the regular version and on a raw light blu one for the variant.
First color has been a dark silver.

Then we worked on a metallic shade from silver to gold.

And then red came.

A different one on the variant, like the shade.

We finished with a black color, of course:-)

And this is the final shape of the prints!

And some details.

And here below the variant.

 

And the Jpeg to show You where we started from.

 

Regular version is a limited edition on 138 pieces.
100 will be on sale during the tour by Black Cobra.
Variant version is limited to 30 pieces and we’ll have a few on sale soon.
I suggest You to go and check Black Cobra live!!!

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Video Killed the radio Stars…

Silkscreening is a mystery.
Lots of people look at our prints asking why they should have a value.
Why they’re special.
What’s behind them.
And why we’re always tired.
And especially… why we’re so muscular and strong…
There’s a reason and an answer for every question.
But talking about things is very difficult and sometimes boring.
So we decided it was time to film the complete (or at least the almost complete) working that there’s around a poster.
And we choose the last one we’ve realized, the print for the gig of Mudhoney in Berlin tonight.
This is the result, hope You’ll enjoy both the video and audio (the song is Leequame from Zolle,  last band in our small Supernatural Cat label)!!!

And don’t forget the Mudhoney posters (regular and variant editions) will be on sale tomorrow on our webstore!!!

Variant

The title says all.
As promised, here we are with the variant of the Mudhoney print for their show in Berlin.
We printed 30 copies on a kraft white paper.
It’s a glittered one, very very nice.
The variant is just 2 colors, a red and a silver metallic ink, no date on it.

This is how it looks and here below You can see the regular and the variant edition.

Hope You’ll like them both!
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Watched “Upstream colors”.
Very nice

MUDHONEY

I remember years ago, there still was a small record shop in our little town.
It was a great period for music, things were changing and lots of great things were coming out.
It was 1991 and I had just watched on TV (!!! it’s incredible if I think what they’re broadcasting now…) a band playing a very raw song in a gymnasium, with a guy screaming like hell his rage.
I was impressed and it took a few days to discover the name of the band and find out more infos.
There was no internet and the only way is to try to be luck enough to see the videoclip again and write on a piece of paper the useful infos.
So I discovered they were Nirvana and the song was “Smells like teen spirit”.
I went to the small shop and I asked for the record.
Obviously, even if it was a good record shop, they didn’t have “Nevermind” so I had to wait for its arrival.
But I was lucky enough to buy “Bleach” (and it was a blast!) and I found another record that attracted me first for the cover art.
It was a band called “Mudhoney” and the album was “Every good boy deserves fudge”.
I went home with 2 vinyls and when I put them on the turntable I was very very happy.
I started my discovering from there and the little shop, called “Il magico Glenn” has been really helpful in that years of my life.
“Every good boy deserves fudge” became one of my favorite albums of the “grunge period” and I still love songs like “thorn”, “let it slide”, “shoot the moon” and “broken hands”.
Mudhoney, with their “punk sound” has been one of the bands that has opened me to incredible discoveries like the Melvins, or Soundgarden and from there I moved to a lot of different stuff growing what I’m now.
So, every time we have to work on a poster for Mudhoney, we’re very very happy.
This time we’ve prepared a silkscreen for their gig in Berlin on the 26th of May.
Today I’m gonna show You the regular version, limited to 119 pieces and printed in 4 colors on cream paper.
We’ve used metallic colors (a lot of them: copper red, iridescent pink and gold) and black ink.

First ink has been a red metallic copper.

Then we’ve worked on a metallic iridescent pink color for the skin

The third color has been a black ink.

And the print was already very nice:-)

The last color has been a gold metallic ink, it’s simulating the “smoke” creating the name of the band.

And this is the final print.

And the image we worked on.

The print will be on sale on our webstore right after the show on the 27th of May.
You’ll have the opportunity to buy one at the show too, of course.
And tomorrow we’ll show You the variant version, limited to 30 copies.
Stay tuned!!!

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MAY

We’ve been out of the studio for a couple of weeks.
We’ve been on tour with Ufomammut and it’s been really great.
We have had a lot of fun and we’ve met a lot of people.
We’ve been witness of the dead of a teddy bear, the poor guy sinked in a sea of plastic coloured balls.

So we decided to go and buy some music to ease our sad souls, but we bumped into very strange things…

We decided it was better to eat something to alleviate our sadness, but again, we run across something we’ve never wanted to see…

And then again, another animal died in front of us…

But this time we had a good meal, soup and muffin…
Could You ask for more?

On the road to London we saw the clouds open and the Big Ben touched the sky.
it was amazing, after days of rain we could see the sun was still there!

And  a puppet, alive and kicking, surrounded by jewels, was waiting for us.
A dragon with a pumpkin was playing an ivory cornet.

The dragon told us that something incredible was waiting for us and  we understood it was time for washing our van…

And, like the dragon predicted, we saw, for the first time in our lives something incredible: the police limo!

One of us, touched by a magic spell, got serious problems of sleeping on the road

But at the end, everything went as we couldn’t imagine and we finally gave birth to a new super trio with Balázs Pándi: the cool, the dumb and the evil.

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Watched Lords of Salem.
Love the movies of Rob Zombie.
Super cool!

ASYMMETRY 5.0

We’ll be on tour from next week.
On the road again (and everytime I write this…)
We’ll be around Europe for a couple of weeks with Malleus and our band Ufomammut, in Germany, then in Belgium, in UK, in Holland, in Czech and finally in Poland where we’ll stay for 3 days, from the 2nd to the 4th of May.
We’ll be at Asymmetry fest, in Wroclaw.
And we’re very excited cause we’ll have a Malleus exhibition!
We’ve also worked on the poster and design for the festival for the fourth year now and we’re very happy about how this last one came out, both for the offset version to advertise the event (the one that is on the walls, to explain…) and the silkscreen limited edition we’ve just finished to print.
We started from the idea of realizing something related to the Oriental Gods of War and we came out with this Goddess coming out of the clouds arising two swords to the sun (to make a very quick summary…)

Then we thought about a different version for the silkscreen, something more simple, without the band names, only a few inscriptions and in a ideogram style to resemble a japanese inscription.
We printed on a heavy raw dark grey paper using metallic and a luminescent red inks.
And we must say the result is very cool.
Super limited edition of only 99 pieces, the poster will be on sale at the festival and the copies left when we’ll be home after the 5th of May!

Here You can see the inscription (it says: “2-4 may 2013 – Wroclaw – Poland”)

This is the final print.

Looking forward to be in Wroclaw!

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Listening to Sir Richard Bishop

Time

I’ve been a little out of the World, lately.
Not that I’ve regrets about it, cause this World seems a little cruel and stupid lately.
So, a sort of convinced amnesia is very helpful, sometimes.
We’ve been preparing lots of stuff in the last days, working on a silkscreen for Malleus exhibition at Asymmetry Fest in Poland (from the 2nd to the 4th of May in Wroclaw!), printing tees for the upcoming Ufomammut european gigs (check HERE), finishing the Suspiria variant and then looking around to understand what’s going on.
Considering the last thing is impossible to do for a human being, we focused more on the other ones…
Let’s start from the Suspiria variant.
In the first pic You can see the glitter ink on the paper.
It’s the “pink” color…

And this is how the variant looks like!

Take a look at the Dark City Gallery website to see when these prints will go on sale.

Then, we worked on 4 tees for te Ufomammut tour.

The first one is a “Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer rising ” inspired tee for Lucifer Songs.

Then we did a Mammoth space skull on white tee and if You put it on reverse an change a few details…

… You have a Goat skull.

Last design is taken from the ORO poster we did for last October tour, dedicated to ORO, the last album of the band.
What’s the one You dig more?
Stay tuned and tomorrow we’ll post You some pics of the Asymmetry fest silkscreen!

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Listening a lot to Chelsea Wolfe.