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JVU - THE ART OF JUHA VUORMA
ZEN TRASH: THRASH METAL MUSIC, MONSTER PAINTINGS & THE TRUTH ABOUT REALITY.

Juha Vuorma is an underground artist from northern Finland. A painter, a comix artist and an illustrator.


An outsider artist insight: Juha Vuorma's art combines textures, symbols and figures from the nature, the unconscious and the mundane world, resulting in an organic world of its own - a world awake and asleep at the same time.

He has been active and involved with the underground art scene for over 20 years, best known for producing album cover paintings for metal music bands such as Usurper, Autopsy, Kalmah, Edge of Sanity, Whiplash, In The Woods etc. He also played bass for an acclaimed pioneering Finnish thrash metal band in the late 1980s. He likes working together with underground artists, musicians, magazines,record labels and people all over the world.

Juha has drawn comics all his life and released many comic books through many publishers and newspapers. His newspaper strip Kaapuveikko (Blue Hood) is published regularly.

Besides album cover art his other paintings can be seen here and there and nowhere.
Please feel free to email for more info, comments, inquiries - or just for the hell of it. [contact email]
All art and comics © J. Vuorma.
No part of this website, including individual images, may be used in any form without permission from the artist. That's: © - a capiche?



Maiden (acrylic on canvas) Through the storm (acrylic on canvas)  © J. Vuorma Autopsy: Torn from the grave CD cover art The Penguin and the Rowanberries (acrylic on canvasboard) Kalmah: Swampsong CD cover art Penguin's Road (acrylic on canvasboard)


info about Juha at w i k i metal
> HeavyMetalArtwork.com Interview
(January 2013).
> Rock Tribune feature article
(Rock Tribune Magazine issue 117, July/August 2012).
> Interview
By Anja Fireangel/Night Elves (Ghoultown:Drink With the Living Dead animated video release 2011).
> Inferno magazine feature article
(Inferno Magazine issue 40, September 2006).
> Interview By Chronicles of Chaos (Chaotic Canvas of Creation - CoC gathers the insight of metal graphic artists) 2002
> Interview
By Scott Crinklaw. (Originally published in THE ZODIAC CHRONICLE webzine 1999).


****recent COMIX stuff ...:
Kaapuveikko III - Mystinen Korpikolmikko comic book released 2013 Rietas Heittiö comic book released 2013 Blue Hood Meets the Horrible Taxman - free online comic book Ghoultown: Drink With The Living Dead animated video


****ARTWORK o r S u c h N E W S ...: **** :

The Maiden of Finland Bleeds Kalmah: Seventh Swamphony CD cover art (Spinefarm Records 2013) Periscope (acrylic on canvasboard)
Old Gunslinger (acrylic on canvas 2012) Demon Lung - Eyes of Zamiel T-shirt art Destroyer of Light CD cover art (DoL, USA 2013) The Dog Marshal (acrylic on canvas) Biotoxic Warfare: Baptized in Blood and Greed EP cover illustration (Biotoxic Warfare, Greece 2013)
Maiden (acrylic on canvas) The Attack (ink 2012) National Napalm Syndicate - Thrashing back from the dead 2013 (ink illustration) Kaapuveikko ja karpalot (acrylic on canvasboard 2012) Dark Ring: Reborn from the Inferno CD/LP cover painting (HMH, USA 2013) Nocturne -  Ave Noctem CD cover drawing (Do or Die Records, USA 2013)
National Napalm Syndicate T-shirt art Sadistik Forest: Death, Doom, Radiation CD cover art (Violent Journey Records, FIN 2012) Deathmarched - Spearhead Of Iron CD cover illustration (Violent Journey Records, Finland 2012) Scythe: Beware the Scythe CD cover painting (Primitive Reaction Records, FIN 2012) Rock Tribune CD Sampler 117 cover art (Rock Tribune Magazine – RT1207, Alcatraz Music – RT1207 ) Grenouer: Computer Crime CD cover art (Copro Records, UK 2011, COP061)
Skirmish: Through the Abacinated Eyes CD cover art (Violent Journey Records 2011, VJR042) Ghoultown show poster art Kaapuveikko the warmonger (acrylic on canvas, 2011) Kaapuveikko ja kallo (acrylic on canvas, 2011) Texas Bigfoot poster painting (acrylic, 2010) AOD cd cover

Kalmah: Seventh Swamphony CD cover art (Spinefarm Records 2013)
Destroyer of Light CD cover art (DoL, USA 2013)
Kaapuveikko III - Mystinen Korpikolmikko comic book released April 2013
Rietas Heittö comic book released April 2013
Biotoxic Warfare: Baptized in Blood and Greed EP cover illustration (Biotoxic Warfare, Greece 2013)
Dark Ring: Reborn from the Inferno CD/LP cover painting (HMH, USA 2013)
Nocturne - Ave Noctem CD cover art (Do or Die Records, USA 2013)
Deathmarched - Spearhead Of Iron CD cover illustration (Violent Journey Records VJR062, Finland 2012)
Rock Tribune CD Sampler 117 cover art (Rock Tribune Magazine – RT1207, Alcatraz Music – RT1207, BELGIUM 2012)
Scythe: Beware the Scythe CD cover art (Primitive Reaction Records, FIN 2012)
Sadistik Forest: Death, Doom, Radiation CD cover art (Violent Journey Records, FIN 2012)
Unholy: The Second Ring of Power CD/DVD cover painting (Peaceville Records, UK 2011)
Excommunicated t-shirt art (UW Records, USA 2011)
A.o.D t-shirt art (A.o.D , Finland 2011)
Grenouer: Computer Crime CD cover art (Copro Records, UK 2011, COP061)
Skirmish: Through the Abacinated Eyes CD cover art (Violent Journey Records 2011, VJR042)
Professori Heikkerö : Possu ja Sorvari EP cover painting (Violent Journey Records 2011, VJR040)
Corpset: Ruins CD cover painting (Violent Journey Records 2011, VJR039)
Texas Bigfoot poster painting (acrylic, 2010) (Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy)
D.O.P.3. CD cover art ["Demonstration Of Penetration III" Demo Compilation CD, Violent Journey Records 2010]
Simple ExistenZ [Ván-Records] cd cover painting.
Metuja: Enimmäkseen Harmiton CD cover ... + inside cd art .
Catholicon "Of Ages Past" CD interior paintings.
Vuohivasara "A cult revived" CD cover painting.
Altars Of Destruction (A.O.D.) cd cover painting.
Adastra: Death or Domination [ cd cover art]
Metuja: Hulluus Aateloi CD cover painting ( + inside booklet painting). Violent Journey Records spring 2008 (VJR 014).
Usurper: Threshold of The Usurper CD/LP cover painting (+ all other art). 10-year anniversary re-release. CD & Gatefold Vinyl.Primitive Reaction Records (PR 015).
Goathemy: Torn [CD cover painting and lay-out - released 26th November 2008. VJR records.]
Adastra:"The Last Sunset" [CD cover painting]
Denial of God: "Horrors of Satan" [gatefold LP/cd cover painting, poster, Painkiller records ].
Catholicon: "Treatise On The Abyss" [CD cover painting + backcover painting, Negativity Records ]
Crowpath:"Son Of Sulphur" [CD front cover art, folded booklet poster art, Willowtip Records- USA , Earache Records - Europe].
Ghoultown: "Bury Them Deep" [cd back cover painting. Zoviet Records.Texas,USA].
Miasma magazine issue 15 cover painting.
OPTIC MATADOR - New Ice: The art of Juha Vuorma 1996-2006. Artbook. Foreword by Count Lyle - Ghoultown. S O L D OUT | [RoadRunner - Blabbermouth ] | [IMPERIUMI.NET]
OPTIC MATADOR - Second Ice : Album covers of Juha Vuorma. Artbook. S O L D OUT | [RoadRunner - Blabbermouth ] | [IMPERIUMI.NET]
WinterMoonBird (acrylic on canvasboard)
Double Trouble (acrylic on canvas)
Portrait of Moira
Hitleri poimii hilloja
DogFellas / Koiraveljekset
Adastra:The Last Sunset CD cover painting
Denial of God: Horrors of Satan LP/CD
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