NEWS: Death Metal Visionary Makes a Movie

CULTURE: Death Metal Visionary Makes a Movie

Best known for creating album covers for dozens of classic death metal records, British painter Dan Seagrave has ventured into the dark waters of filmmaking. He recently completed his first project for the UK Film Council, a short film titled Shadowline.

Respected for his contributions to the burgeoning death metal scene of the late '80s and early '90s, Seagrave created the covers for Morbid Angel’s Altars of Madness, Entombed’s Left Hand Path, and tons of other "br00tal" discs by acts like Vader, Dismember, Benediction, Malevolent Creation, and more recently he designed a T-shirt for thrash upstarts Trivium.

While his paintings are known to be darkly surreal and deeply entrenched in fantasy, Shadowline looks to be more psychological than literal with its horror... perhaps the swirling shards of chaos and mechanistic larval demons have been internalized by the film’s protagonist. Check out the film's site for screening info and a streaming trailer. And just as a reminder of how good some of those "classic records" really were:



Hat Tip: Blabbermouth

Left Hand Path FTW!

Looks interesting. Thanks for the story.

Alters of Madness fucking rocked!

rocked so hard i forgot how to spell

oh sick Trivium tainted his name woo



=-> Alecks

I wholeheartedly agree. Err.. obviously about Entombed, but also about Trivium...

I always loved the fact that they used the music from Phantasm as the riff that song devolves into . Entombed's first two cds were so great , pity how they went afterwards .

I am so glad that somebody agrees with me on that.