The Art Of Alex CF

Alex was the vocalist if Fall Of Efrafa and now he sings in Light Bearer, amazing new conceptual band. Not to forget Momentum too, a band whose recordings we are looking forward to for sure! For those of you who remember great artwork of Fall Of Efrafa albums and merch, Alex did it. I could go on about both Fall of Efrafa and Light Bearer forever, but I have to try to concentrate on artwork only. Anyway, artworks of these two bands are as much important part of their concepts as music or lyrics...

I must mention that Light Bearer released Lapsus couple of weeks ago and it's extraordinary piece of art you should definitely check out.
 Light Bearer Myspace
Lapsus is available here: www.doomrock.com

Also, you can read the interview with Light Bearer in the second issue of Rebuild zine, which will be out in May.

Alex is also a curator and custodian of the Merrylin Cryptid collection, which is collection of specimens and preserved bodies of all kinds of mythical creatures found and carefully collected by Thomas Theodore Merrylin. You can explore this collection which will leave you speechless on Alex's website and even purchase some of the specimens (yeah, seriously!).

Since this is a blog about artwork related to music, I won't post any of his paintings and stuff, for that, be sure to check out his website and blog.

blog 

www.alexcf.com 

Rohan Harrison

Besides their music, I've always been impressed by Extortion cover artworks and T shirts, every single one of them. All those designs are done by Rohan Harrison, the singer of this angry Aussie band.
Strongly influenced by work of legendary Raymond Pettibone, Rohan Harrison developed recognizable  brutal and sick style which you just have to love. As he said in one interview that he "ends up carried away and drawing chainsaws and axes into everything". It's surely more than that.

Anyway, he hadn't been posting any new works on his blogs until recently, which reminded me of Extortion again and of course, to post some of artwork he did for the band here...

Here are some of Extortion artwork, the rest of the artwork he did for this one and another bands be sure to check out on his blog:

www.weiffenbach.blogspot.com/

Chris Bavaria photography

I posted before some posters done by Evan Wivell from Mindset and now it's time for another guy from this great hardcore band, Chris Bavaria, who is a photographer.
Check out this new interview with him on ArtHash blog: ArtHash: Interview with Chris Bavaria

An of course his website:
www.chrisbavaria.com
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisbavaria

There are many great pics from different shows and bands, but don't stop there, there are a lot of photos of places and people that are totally worth your time.

Bill Hauser

Bill Hauser is the guy who made my all time favorite T shirt design:

so I although I plan to interview him, I just couldn't wait to at least mention him here...

He also did the cover art for Catch Your Breath 7" by Our Turn, one of my favorite hardcore bands...

Of course, these are only my personal favorites. Looking generally at his artwork, there is a lot of truly amazing and unique stuff.
Here are some examples of his work, posters, covers, shirts...  but be sure to check out the rest of his works on these pages:
http://www.myspace.com/billhauser


http://billhauser.deviantart.com/

Bill Hauser page on Facebook

Enjoy.

Vasil Vasev

Vasil Vasev is an artist from Bulgaria who lives in Serbia. He does great commercials, book covers, calendars, T shirt designs, but the stuff I find the most interesting are gig posters, mostly for the shows in Serbia and Bulgaria...
You can see some of the posters and stuff  here, and for the rest of his work, check out Vasil's  Myspace or DeviantArt page.
http://www.myspace.com/vasse_art
http://vasse79.deviantart.com/