Dan Seagrave

Daniel "Dan" Seagrave (* 1971 ) is a British artist who has been known since the late 1980s for his paintings, which many bands from the genres of death and thrash metal used as album covers .

biography

Seagrave grew up in the area of Nottingham , the nature and landscape of which he referred to as the works of MC Escher , John Martin and William Turner as inspiration when he started out as a painter. The first release for which he contributed the cover motif was a split between the bands Lawnmower Deth and Metal Duck for the British label RKT . Subsequently, he was also responsible for the cover motifs of other releases of this label, for example for Warfares live album Deathcharge . He describes it as his first real Death Metal cover for Morbid Angels Altars of Madness . This was followed by further work for bands on the Earache Records , Nuclear Blast and Roadrunner Records labels in the early 1990s . Seagrave named the painting created during this period for the album Testimony of the Ancients by the Dutch death metal band Pestilence as his best cover. In the following years, accompanied by the loss of popularity of death metal, he appeared less often as a cover artist and devoted himself mainly to his series of paintings called Temple, linked by a background story . With the beginning of the 2000s , music albums with paintings by Seagraves appeared again more frequently. These included albums by bands for which he had already worked more than ten years earlier (e.g. Dismember , Morbid Angel, Resurrection , Suffocation ), as well as those by significantly younger bands such as Becoming the Archetype and Warbringer . While his older pictures were made exclusively using gouache , Seagrave now mainly uses acrylic paint .

Album cover (selection)

RKT

• Lawnmower Deth / Metal Duck: Mower Liberation Front / Quack 'em All (1989)
• Warfare : Deathcharge (1991)

Earache Records

• Entombed : Left Hand Path (1990), Clandestine (1991)
• Morbid Angel : Altars of Madness (1989), Gateways to Annihilation (2000)
• Nocturnus : The Key (1990)
• Vader : The Ultimate Incantation (1993)

Nuclear Blast

• Benediction : Transcend the Rubicon (1993)
• Decrepit Birth : Polarity (2010)
• Dismember : Like an Everflowing Stream (1991)
• Hypocrisy : Penetralia (1992)
• Monstrosity : Imperial Doom (1992)
• Resurrection : Embalmed Existence (1993)

Roadrunner Records

• Gorguts : Considered Dead (1991), The Erosion of Sanity (1993)
• Malevolent Creation : The Ten Commandments (1991), Retribution (1992), Stillborn (1993)
• Pestilence : Testimony of the Ancients (1991), Spheres (1993), Mind Reflections (1994)
• Suffocation : Effigy of the Forgotten (1991), Breeding the Spawn (1993)

Various

• Becoming the Archetype : Terminate Damnation (2005), Celestial Completion (2011)
• Decrepit Birth: … And Time Begins (2003), Diminishing Between Worlds (2008)
• Dismember: Where Ironcrosses Grow (2004), The God That Never Was (2006)
• Edge of Sanity : The Spectral Sorrows (1993)
• Evocation : Tales from the Tomb (2007)
• Landmine Marathon : Sovereign Descent (2010)
• Requiem : Infiltrate… Obliterate… Dominate… (2009), Within Darkened Disorder (2011)
• Resurrection: Mistaken for Dead (2008)
• Suffocation: Souls to Deny (2004)
• Warbringer : Waking into Nightmares (2009), Worlds Torn Asunder (2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Steven Willems: DAN SEAGRAVE . Voices from the Darkside , accessed July 22, 2011.

Works

• John Grant, Ron Tiner: The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques . Running Press 1996, ISBN 978-1-56138-534-8 (contains five works by Seagrave).

Web links

• http://www.danseagrave.com/