Kristian Wåhlin

Kristian Wåhlin (* 1971 ), also known under the pseudonym Necrolord , is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist, singer, graphic designer and album cover artist who has designed the covers for a number of well-known metal bands. His studio is in Höganäs .

biography

Kristian Wåhlin was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1971. His interest in art developed during his time at the Schillerska Grammar School. Romantic and Renaissance painters such as Caspar David Friedrich , Albrecht Dürer and Hieronymus Bosch represented important early influences . His interest in these epochs also coincided with his studies in music.

At the age of 17 Wåhlin founded the band Grotesque , in which he played as a guitarist with his school friend Tomas Lindberg (vocals), Alf Svensson (guitar) and drummer Tomas Eriksson. After a breakup in 1990, a few members of At the Gates , the original drummer Johan "Shamaatae" Lahger, formed the one-man band Arckanum . Wåhlin worked with Lindberg and other members of At the Gates in the death metal band Liers in Wait , and he later designed the album Slaughter of the Soul by At the Gates.

The band Dissection , who had played together with At the Gates, came up with the idea of ​​using Wåhlin's drawings as the cover of The Somberlain and Storm of the Light's Bane, among others . The latter shows the well-known scene of the riding grim reaper in a snowy landscape. He also drew the cover for the debut album by the Norwegian black metal band Emperor , In the Nightside Eclipse .

With the bands Liers in Wait and Decollation, Wåhlin recorded quite a bit of material until they broke up in the mid-90s. In 1995 he founded the gothic metal band Diabolique , for which he won some of his former musicians as additional band members. He recorded a number of albums with this band, but this band has been on hold since 2001. He also played with Tomas Lindberg on The Great Deceiver .

Cover designs (selection)

• Amorphis ( Elegy )
• Antestor ( Det Tapte Liv , The Forsaken , Martyrium )
• At the Gates ( Slaughter of the Soul )
• Bathory ( Blood on Ice , Nordland I , Nordland II , In Memory of Quorthon Vol. I to III)
• Benediction ( Organized Chaos )
• Cemetary ( The Beast Divine , An Evil Shade of Gray , Last Confession , Sundown , Phantasma )
• Dark Funeral ( The Secrets of the Black Arts )
• Dark Tranquility ( The Gallery )
• Diabolique ( Wedding the Grotesque , The Diabolique , Black Flower , Butterflies , The Green Goddess )
• Dismember ( Massive Killing Capacity )
• Dissection ( The Grief Prophecy , Into Infinite Obscurity , The Somberlain , Storm of the Light's Bane , Where Dead Angels Lie , Live Legacy , Maha Kali )
• Edge of Sanity ( Purgatory Afterglow , Crimson II )
• Emperor ( In the Nightside Eclipse )
• Ensiferum ( Ensiferum , Iron , Victory Songs , Unsung Heroes )
• Evergrey ( The Dark Discovery , Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy )
• Extol ( Burial , Mesmerized )
• Firewind ( Between Heaven and Hell )
• Graveworm ( Engraved in Black )
• Impious ( Evilized )
• King Diamond ( Voodoo )
• Lake of Tears ( A Crimson Cosmos , Headstones , The Neonai , Greater Art , Greatest Tears Vol I , Greatest Tears Vol II )
• Mercyful Fate ( Dead Again )
• Morgana Lefay - ( … ---… (SOS) , Grand Materia , The Seventh Seal , Knowing Just as I , The Secret Doctrine , Maleficium , Sanctified )
• Narnia ( Awakening , Desert Land )
• Necrophobic ( Darkside )
• Nifelheim ( Nifelheim , Devil's Force )
• Tad Morose ( Leaving the Past Behind , Sender of Thoughts , Paradigma )
• Therion ( Beyond Sanctorum , Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas , Lepaca Kliffoth )
• Tiamat ( Sumerian Cry , The Astral Sleep , Clouds , The Sleeping Beauty - Live in Israel , Wildhoney )
• Wintersun ( Wintersun )

Discography

• Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil (Best of, 1996, guitar for two newly recorded songs)
• Liers in Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art (EP, 1992, guitar)
• Decollation - Cursed Lands (EP, 1993, drums)
• Diabolique - The Diabolique (EP, 1996, vocals and guitar)
• Diabolique - Wedding the Grotesque (1997, vocals and guitar)
• Diabolique - The Black Flower (1999, vocals and guitar)
• Diabolique - Butterflies (EP, 2000, vocals and guitar)
• Diabolique - The Green Goddess (2001, vocals and guitar)
• The Great Deceiver - Cave In (EP, 1999, guitar)
• The Great Deceiver - Jet Black Art (2000, guitar)
• The Great Deceiver - A Venom Well Designed (2002, guitar)
• The Great Deceiver - Terra Incognito (2004, guitar)

Web links

• Kristian Wåhlin's homepage

Individual evidence

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