Wes Benscoter
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Wes Benscoter is an American
artist who is best known for his work album covers, especially heavy metal
albums. He also has made covers for magazines and books, and shirt designs, and his art is featured in many galleries around the world. Most of his work is done using airbrush
. Benscoter lives in Japan
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United States
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artist who is best known for his work album covers, especially heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
albums. He also has made covers for magazines and books, and shirt designs, and his art is featured in many galleries around the world. Most of his work is done using airbrush
Airbrush
An airbrush is a small, air-operated tool that sprays various media including ink and dye, but most often paint by a process of nebulization. Spray guns developed from the airbrush and are still considered a type of airbrush.-History:...
. Benscoter lives in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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List of works
- Black SabbathBlack SabbathBlack Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
- Black Sabbath: The Dio Years - BloodbathBloodbathBloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm formed in 1998.-History:A year after being formed, the band, then consisting of Mikael Åkerfeldt on vocals, Dan Swanö on drums, Anders "Blakkheim" Nyström on guitar, and Jonas Renkse on bass, released their EP Breeding...
- Nightmares Made FleshNightmares Made FleshNightmares Made Flesh, released by Century Media Records in 2004, is the second album by Swedish death metal band Bloodbath.This album features Peter Tägtgren, who was brought in to replace Mikael Åkerfeldt as the vocalist, as well as Martin Axenrot to replace Dan Swanö as the drummer...
(US-release) - Broken HopeBroken HopeBroken Hope was an American death metal band that was founded in 1988. They were known as an accomplished mid-paced style death metal band with low-pitched growling vocals...
- Loathing - Cattle DecapitationCattle DecapitationCattle Decapitation is an American deathgrind band from San Diego, California, formed in 1996.-History:Originally founded in 1996, Cattle Decapitation's songs protest the mistreatment and consumption of animals as well as the abuse of the environment. Lyrics may also focus on subjects such as...
- HumanureHumanure (album)- Credits :*Travis Ryan - Vocals*Josh Elmore - Guitar*Troy Oftedal - Bass*Michael Laughlin - Drums*Bill Metoyer - Engineering & Mixing*Brad Vance - Mastering... - Cattle DecapitationCattle DecapitationCattle Decapitation is an American deathgrind band from San Diego, California, formed in 1996.-History:Originally founded in 1996, Cattle Decapitation's songs protest the mistreatment and consumption of animals as well as the abuse of the environment. Lyrics may also focus on subjects such as...
- The Harvest FloorThe Harvest Floor- Personnel :* Travis Ryan – vocals* Josh Elmore – guitar* Troy Oftedal – bass* David McGraw – drums... - Cattle DecapitationCattle DecapitationCattle Decapitation is an American deathgrind band from San Diego, California, formed in 1996.-History:Originally founded in 1996, Cattle Decapitation's songs protest the mistreatment and consumption of animals as well as the abuse of the environment. Lyrics may also focus on subjects such as...
- To Serve ManTo Serve Man (album)To Serve Man is the third studio album by American death metal band Cattle Decapitation. The title is a reference the Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man.-Track listing:- Personnel :*Travis Ryan – vocals*Josh Elmore – guitar*Troy Oftedal – bass... - Cephalic CarnageCephalic CarnageCephalic 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...
- Exploiting DysfunctionExploiting Dysfunction- Track listing :- Personnel :* Lenzig Leal - vocals* Zac Joe - guitar* John Merryman - drums* Steve Goldberg - guitar* Jawsh Mullen - bass... - DeceasedDeceased (band)Deceased is a death/thrash metal band from Virginia, that has attained a dedicated, though cult following throughout a lengthy recording and live career. Founded in 1984, by drummer and vocalist King Fowley, the first band to sign Relapse Records, they released four full albums through the label,...
- Blueprints for Madness - Defiled - Divination
- DioDio (band)Dio was an American heavy metal band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Formed in 1982 and led by vocalist Ronnie James Dio, after he left Black Sabbath with intentions to form a new band with fellow former Black Sabbath member, drummer Vinny Appice. Naming the band Dio made sense from a commercial...
- Stand Up and Shout: The Dio Anthology - EmbalmerEmbalmer (band)Embalmer is an American death metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. They were formed in 1989 by Toby Wulff , Roy Stewart , Mark Davis and Duane Morris . From 1991 to 1995 they released Into The Oven, Rotting Remains and There Was Blood Everywhere, with many lineup changes along the way...
- There Was Blood Everywhere - HypocrisyHypocrisy (band)Hypocrisy is a melodic death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren.Musically, the band started off with a traditional death metal sound on their first albums, and soon drifted to become a melodic death metal band. The lyrics in their early stages -...
- Osculum ObscenumOsculum ObscenumOsculum Obscenum is Hypocrisy's second album, released in 1993. The cover artwork was created by Wes Benscoter. Osculum Obscenum was re-released in 1996 as a digipak with bonus tracks and a photo of the band lineup from that year with Mikael Hedlund, Peter Tägtgren, and Lars Szöke.-Track listing:-... - MorticianMortician (band)Mortician is a death metal / deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989. They have released most of their albums since the House by the Cemetery EP on Relapse Records but have released their latest album on their own label, Mortician Records. They have toured several times...
- Hacked up for Barbecue - MorticianMortician (band)Mortician is a death metal / deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989. They have released most of their albums since the House by the Cemetery EP on Relapse Records but have released their latest album on their own label, Mortician Records. They have toured several times...
- Darkest Day of Horror - MorticianMortician (band)Mortician is a death metal / deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989. They have released most of their albums since the House by the Cemetery EP on Relapse Records but have released their latest album on their own label, Mortician Records. They have toured several times...
- Domain of Death - MorticianMortician (band)Mortician is a death metal / deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989. They have released most of their albums since the House by the Cemetery EP on Relapse Records but have released their latest album on their own label, Mortician Records. They have toured several times...
- House by the CemeteryHouse by the Cemetery (album)House by the Cemetery is an EP by Mortician. The album is named after cult director Lucio Fulci's 1981 horror film The House by the Cemetery. The album features samples from various horror movies.-Original release:... - MorticianMortician (band)Mortician is a death metal / deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989. They have released most of their albums since the House by the Cemetery EP on Relapse Records but have released their latest album on their own label, Mortician Records. They have toured several times...
- Zombie ApocalypseZombie Apocalypse (album)Zombie Apocalypse is an EP by Mortician. Now out-of-print, the EP has since been re-issued by Relapse Records as a two-for-one package with Hacked Up for Barbecue.-Different versions:... - RegurgitateRegurgitate (band)Regurgitate is a goregrind band from Sweden.In 2001, Bizarre Leprous Productions released a 46-band tribute to Regurgitate entitled Comeback of Goregods: Tribute to Regurgitate, with bands such as Inhume, Lymphatic Phlegm, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Haemorrhage, and Neuro-Visceral Exhumation taking...
- Carnivorous Erection - Ritual CarnageRitual CarnageRitual Carnage is a thrash metal band formed in 1994. All the members are Japanese except for Damian Montgomery, their American frontman and leader.- Current members :* Damian "Danny Carnage" Montgomery – vocals...
- The Highest LawThe Highest LawThe Highest Law is the debut album by the Japanese thrash metal band Ritual Carnage. It was released in 1998 by Osmose Productions.-Track listing:# "Servant of the Black" – 3:47# "The Unjust" – 2:48# "Succumb to the Beast" – 2:19... - Ritual CarnageRitual CarnageRitual Carnage is a thrash metal band formed in 1994. All the members are Japanese except for Damian Montgomery, their American frontman and leader.- Current members :* Damian "Danny Carnage" Montgomery – vocals...
- Every Nerve AliveEvery Nerve AliveEvery Nerve Alive is the second album by the Japanese thrash metal band Ritual Carnage. It was released in 1999 by Osmose Productions.- Track listing :# "Awaiting the Kill" – 6:50# "8th Great Hell" – 2:27# "Death, Judgement, Fate" – 3:35... - SinisterSinister (band)Sinister is a death metal band from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, assembled in 1988, disassembled in 2003, and reassembled in 2005 by Adrie Kloosterwaard on vocals and Alex Paul on guitar...
- Hate - SinisterSinister (band)Sinister is a death metal band from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, assembled in 1988, disassembled in 2003, and reassembled in 2005 by Adrie Kloosterwaard on vocals and Alex Paul on guitar...
- Diabolical Summoning - SlayerSlayerSlayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
- Divine InterventionDivine Intervention (album)Divine Intervention is the sixth studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. Released on September 27, 1994 through American Recordings, it was their first album featuring Paul Bostaph, replacing the band's original drummer Dave Lombardo. Several of the songs on the album were inspired by... - SlayerSlayerSlayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
- Undisputed AttitudeUndisputed AttitudeUndisputed Attitude is the seventh studio album by American thrash metal band Slayer. The album is a collection of punk covers of bands like Minor Threat, T.S.O.L., D.R.I and The Stooges... - SlayerSlayerSlayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
- Live IntrusionLive IntrusionLive Intrusion is a home video by Slayer which was released in 1995 through American Recordings and filmed at the Mesa Amphitheater in Mesa, Arizona on March 12, 1995. The video features a cover of the Venom song "Witching Hour" performed by Slayer with assistance from Chris Kontos and Robb Flynn... - SolaceSolace (band)Solace is a heavy metal band hailing from the Jersey Shore, United States.Formed in 1996 by the remaining members of Atlantic Records artist Godspeed, Solace is most well known in the stoner rock genre, but as guitarist and founding member Tommy Southard has said "We're not a stoner band, we're a...
- Further - Torture KillerTorture KillerTorture Killer is a Finnish death metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2002. The band consists of four members, Jari Laine , Tuomas Karppinen , Kim Torniainen , and Tuomo Latvala...
- Swarm - VehemenceVehemenceVehemence is a death metal band from Phoenix, Arizona. They formed in 1997 and released their first demo cassette in 1998. Their debut album, The Thoughts From Which I Hide, was self-released in 2000...
- Helping the World to SeeHelping the World to SeeHelping the World to See is the third album by death metal band Vehemence. It was released in 2004 by Metal Blade Records. A video was created for the track, 'By Your Bedside' and 'We Are All Dying', the latter of which appeared on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball....