Mark Riddick was born in Bossier City, Louisiana

Bossier City, Louisiana

Bossier City is a city in Bossier Parish, Louisiana, United States.As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 61,315. Bossier City is closely tied to its larger sister city Shreveport, located on the western bank of the Red River. The Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area is the...

 in 1976 and raised in Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia

Northern Virginia consists of several counties and independent cities in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in a widespread region generally radiating southerly and westward from Washington, D.C...

. Mark holds a BA degree in Studio Art from Greensboro College

Greensboro College

Greensboro College is a four-year, independent, coeducational liberal-arts college, also offering four master's degrees, located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1838...

, North Carolina. Riddick is a well known illustrator and graphic artist for the death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 and black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 music communities. Riddick's work has been published by small underground bands and fanzines and international recording acts on major metal labels alike.

Bands and Clients

• Arsis
• Dethklok
  Dethklok
  Dethklok is both a virtual band featured in the Adult Swim animated program Metalocalypse, as well as a real band created to perform the band's melodic death metal music in live shows. The band was created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha. The music heard on Metalocalypse is performed by Brendon...
  
  
• Devourment
  Devourment
  Devourment is a death metal band from Dallas, Texas. Formed in 1995, the band has split up and reformed three times and none of the original members remain. The current lineup is Mike Majewski , Ruben Rosas , Chris "Captain Piss" Andrews and Eric Park...
  
  
• Necro (rapper)
• Suicide Silence
  Suicide Silence
  Suicide Silence is an American extreme metal band from Riverside, California. The group consists of vocalist Mitch Lucker, guitarists Chris Garza and Mark Heylmun, drummer Alex Lopez and bassist Dan Kenny. Formed in 2002, the band has released three full-length studio albums, one EP and seven music...
  
  
• The Black Dahlia Murder
  The Black Dahlia Murder
  The Black Dahlia Murder is an American heavy metal band from Waterford, Michigan, formed in 2001. Their name is derived from the 1947 unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short, often referred to as Black Dahlia. The band comprises vocalist Trevor Strnad, guitarists Brian Eschbach and Ryan Knight, bassist...
  
  

List of Works

• Arsis - United in Regret
  United in Regret
  United in Regret is the second full length album released by the melodic death metal band Arsis. This album has Noah Martin on bass as opposed to James Malone, and features a guest guitar solo by Emil Werstler of Daath on "The Things You Said." United in Regret received favorable reviews from press...
  
  
• Arsis - Starve for the Devil
  Starve for the Devil
  Starve for the Devil is an album by technical death metal band Arsis that was released on February 9, 2010, via Nuclear Blast Records.-History:...
  
  
• As You Drown
  As You Drown
  As You Drown is a death metal band formed in Borås, Sweden in the winter of 2003/2004.-History:The band was released a demos between 2003-2005 and managed to performed some shows supporting fellow European metal bands like Entombed and Vader before encountering their first set of lineup changes.In...
  
   - Rat King
  Rat King (album)
  Rat King is an upcoming second studio album by a Swedish death metal band, As You Drown. It will release on October 7th, 2011 via Metal Blade Records. This album was mixed and mastered by Plec at Panic Room Studio in Skövde in July 2011...
  
  
• Cephalic Carnage
  Cephalic Carnage
  Cephalic Carnage is an American grindcore band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The band comprises vocalist Lenzig Leal, guitarists Steve Goldberg and Brian Hopp, drummer John Merryman and bassist Nick Schendzielos...
  
   - Halls of Amenti
  Halls of Amenti
  Halls of Amenti is a one-song EP by Cephalic Carnage released by Willowtip Records, which is 19 minutes in length. This was an experimental song done in a doom metal style and using some death metal style vocals....
  
  
• Doomstone - Those Whom Satan Hath Joined
• Embrionic Death Regurgitated Stream of Rot
• Gravehill Rites of the Pentagram
• Kryptos
  Kryptos (band)
  Kryptos is a heavy metal band from Bangalore, India, formed in 1998 by Nolan Lewis and Ganesh K . Since their inception, the band has released two albums. The first album Spiral Ascent released in 2004 did exceedingly well and made an impact in the underground...
  
  - The Coils of Apollyon
• The Ravenous - Assembled In Blasphemy
• Ruins - Chambers of Perversion
• Witch-hunt - Prophecies of a Great Plague
• Yskelgroth - Unholy Primitive Nihilism

External links

• Official Web site