NEW ICE - THE ART OF JUHA VUORMA ZEN TRASH: THRASH METAL MUSIC, MONSTER PAINTINGS & THE TRUTH ABOUT REALITY. Juha Vuorma is a visual artist, a painter, a comix artist and an illustrator who resides in northern Finland. His paintings combine textures from the nature and the unconscious with both fantasy and mundane symbols and figures, 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 Kalmah, Edge of Sanity, Autopsy, Usurper, Whiplash, In The Woods etc. He also played bass for an acclaimed pioneering Finnish thrash metal band in the late 1980s. He still likes working with underground artists, musicians, magazines,record labels and people all over the world. Juha has drawn comics all his life, released many comic books through many publishers and newspapers. His newspaper strip Kaapuveikko 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] info about Juha at w i k i metal > Interview By Anja Fireangel/Night Elves (Ghoultown:Drink With the Living Dead animated video release 2011). > 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). 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? ****ARTWORK o r S u c h N E W S ...: **** : Ghoultown: "Drink With The Living Dead" video released, August 2011 Art by Juha Vuorma, Directed by Laume Conroy Ghoultown: "Life After Sundown" CD, Zoviet Records (Dallas, Texas, USA) 2011. 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) 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. M e t u j a cd cover ...again: 2009 ... + inside cd art ....all lay out work. [ reported on BLABBERMOUTH ] . Shirts available directly from the band and/or label. Catholicon [ -- brooding, blackened death metal from the haunted swamps of Louisiana] upcoming cd "Of Ages Past" interior paintings. V u o h i v a s a r a "A cult revived" CD cover painting. ALTARS OF DESTRUCTION (A.O.D.) : cd cover PAINTING [ the classic Finnish thrash group returns with vengeance ]. ADASTRA: Death or Domination [ cd cover art & lay-out - released December 2008. VJR records.] Usurper T-SHIRT / PATCH design ["Threshold of The Usurper", black shirt, white design, Primitive Reaction Records & Usurper 2008. Contact Primitive Reaction Records for prices & Shirt sizes. Patch 7,5 x 9,5 cm. ] Metuja T-SHIRT design ["Hulluus Aateloi", black shirt, white design, VJR Records 2008 ] Metuja: Hulluus Aateloi CD cover painting ( + inside booklet painting and lay-out). Violent Journey Records spring 2008 (VJR 014). Usurper [R.I.P.]: Threshold of The Usurper CD/LP cover painting (all other art & lay-out). 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 & all lay-out ,Violent Journey Records ] 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]