- Kristian Wåhlin
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Kristian Wåhlin Birth name Kristian Wåhlin Also known as Necrolord, Chris Steele Born 4 December 1971 [1] Origin Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden Genres Death metal, melodic death metal, black metal, gothic metal, power metal, doom metal Instruments Guitar, drums Years active 1988–present Labels Various (as both musician and artist) Website KristianWahlin.Se Kristian Wåhlin (born 1971 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, graphic designer, and album cover artist for many bands in the extreme metal scene worldwide. He is often credited under his pseudonym, Necrolord.
Wåhlin's interest in art began while attending Schillerska Grammar School, a secondary educational institution in central Gothenburg. He has referenced Romantic and Renaissance painters like Caspar David Friedrich, Albrecht Dürer and Hieronymus Bosch as early influences.[1] This interest also coincided with the time in which he studied music.
At the age of 17, Wåhlin formed Grotesque (as guitarist) with school friend Tomas Lindberg on vocals, Alf Svensson on guitar, and Tomas Eriksson on drums.[2] The 1990 break-up of Grotesque would lead to the formation of At the Gates, who would be credited as instigators of the "Gothenburg Melodic death metal sound". Wåhlin would collaborate with Lindberg and other At the Gates members a short time additionally in the death metal band Liers in Wait, and would go on to design the "Russian icon" cover-art of At the Gates' cornerstone release, Slaughter of the Soul.
Dissection, who shared practice quarters with At the Gates, would display illustrations by Wåhlin on the cover of The Somberlain and also Storm of the Light's Bane; the latter featuring the infamous scene of the "grim reaper horseman" in the middle of a snow-covered forest tundra. In the Nightside Eclipse, the debut of seminal Norwegian black metal band Emperor, would also be graced with his work on the cover. Wahlin would continue as an album artist for several other bands in the European death, black, doom, power and gothic metal collective throughout the 2000s.
Liers in Wait and Decollation would feature musical contribution by Wåhlin before both groups folded in the mid-1990s. In 1995 he started gothic metal band Diabolique, where he was joined by some musicians from bands in which he had previously participated. Diabolique's latest release was The Green Goddess in 2001. They are currently writing material for an upcoming 2010 album. Wahlin also collaborated with longtime friend Lindberg in the hardcore band The Great Deceiver.
His art studio is located in Höganäs municipality, Sweden.
Contents
Discography
- Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil (guitar)
- Liers in Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art (EP, 1992) (guitar)
- Decollation - Cursed Lands (EP, 1993) (drummer)
- Diabolique - The Diabolique (EP, 1996) (vocals/guitar)
- Diabolique - Wedding The Grotesque (1997) (vocals/guitar)
- Diabolique - The Black Flower (1999) (vocals/guitar)
- Diabolique - Butterflies (EP, 2000) (vocals/guitar)
- Diabolique - The Green Goddess (2001) (vocals/guitar)
- The Great Deceiver - Cave In (EP) (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)
- The Great Deceiver - Life Is Wasted on The Living (2007) (guitar)
Album covers
- Ablaze My Sorrow - If Emotions Still Burn
- Amorphis - Elegy
- Amorphis - Magic & Mayhem – Tales from the Early Years
- Antestor - Det Tapte Liv
- Antestor - The Forsaken
- Antestor - Martyrium
- Apostasy - Cell 666
- Atheist - Elements
- At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
- Auberon - The Tale of Black
- Bathory - Blood on Ice
- Bathory - Nordland I
- Bathory - Nordland II
- Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. I
- Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. II
- Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. III
- Becoming the Archetype - Dichotomy
- Benediction – Organised Chaos
- The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
- Cemetary - An Evil Shade of Grey
- Cemetary - Sundown
- Cemetary - Last Confession
- Cemetary - The Beast Divine
- Cemetary - Phantasma
- Crimson Midwinter - Random Chaos
- Crown of Thorns - The Burning
- Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death
- Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons
- Crystal Eyes - Vengeance Descending
- Crystal Eyes - In Silence They March
- Dark Funeral - The Secrets of the Black Arts
- Dark Funeral - In the Sign... (reissue of Dark Funeral EP)
- Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
- Desecrator - Black Sermons
- Desultory - Bitterness
- Diabolique - Wedding the Grotesque
- Diabolique - The Diabolique
- Diabolique - Black Flower
- Diabolique - Butterflies
- Diabolique - The Green Goddess
- Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
- Dissection - The Grief Prophecy
- Dissection - Into Infinite Obscurity
- Dissection - The Somberlain
- Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
- Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie
- Dissection - Live Legacy
- Dissection - Maha Kali
- Earth Flight - Blue Hour Confessions
- Ebony Tears - Tortura Insomniae
- Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
- Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
- Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
- Ensiferum - Ensiferum
- Ensiferum - Iron
- Ensiferum - Victory Songs
- Ensiferum - From Afar
- Epitaph - Seeming Salvation
- The Equinox ov the Gods - Images of Forgotten Memories
- The Equinox ov the Gods - Fruits and Flowers of the Spectral Garden
- Evergrey - The Dark Discovery (Logo)
- Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
- Extol - Burial
- Extol - Mesmerized
- Firewind - Between Heaven and Hell
- The Generals - Stand Up Straight
- Godgory - Resurrection
- Godgory - Way Beyond
- Grand Magus - Hammer of the North
- Graveworm - Engraved in Black
- The Great Deceiver - Jet Black Art
- The Great Deceiver - Terra Incognito
- The Great Deceiver - A Venom Well Designed
- The Great Deceiver - Life Is Wasted on the Living (collaboration with Converge's Jacob Bannon)
- Heads or Tales - Eternity Becomes a Lie
- Heavenly - Coming from the Sky
- Hexenhaus - Deja Voodoo
- Hollow - Modern Cathedral
- Hollow - Architect of the Mind
- Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
- Hypocrisy - Hell Over Sofia - 20 Years of Chaos and Confusion
- Impious - Evilized
- In Aeternum - Forever Blasphemy
- In Aeternum - The Pestilent Plague
- Incrave - Dead End
- Iron Fire - Thunderstorm
- Jennie Tebler's Out of Oblivion - Till Death Tear Us Part
- King Diamond - Voodoo
- Lake of Tears - Greater Art
- Lake of Tears - Headstones
- Lake of Tears - A Crimson Cosmos
- Lake of Tears - The Neonai
- Lake of Tears - Greatest Tears Vol I
- Lake of Tears - Greatest Tears Vol II
- Laudamus - Lost in Vain
- Liers in Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
- Light This City - Stormchaser
- The Man from the Moon - Rocket Attack
- Meduza - Now and Forever
- Memento Mori - La Danse Macabre
- Memento Mori - Songs for the Apocalypse Vol. IV
- Memory Garden - Mirage
- Memory Garden - Forever
- Memory Garden - Verdict of Posterity
- Merciless - Unbound
- Mercyful Fate - Dead Again
- The Moaning - Blood From Stone
- Morbid - December Moon
- Morgana Lefay - Knowing Just as I
- Morgana Lefay- The Secret Doctrine
- Morgana Lefay - Sanctified
- Morgana Lefay - Maleficium
- Morgana Lefay (Lefay) - The Seventh Seal
- Morgana Lefay (Lefay) - ...---... (SOS)
- Morgana Lefay - Grand Materia
- Morgana Lefay - Aberrations of the Mind
- Narnia - Awakening
- Narnia - Long Live the King
- Narnia - Desert Land
- Necrophobic - Darkside
- Netherbird - Monument Black Colossal
- Nifelheim - Nifelheim
- Nifelheim - Devil's Force
- Opprobrium - Discerning Forces
- Opprobrium - Serpent Temptation
- Phlebotomized - Preach Eternal Gospels
- Rosicrucian - Silence
- Rosicrucian - No Cause for Celebration
- Raise Hell - Holy Target
- Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
- Sacrilege - Lost in the Beauty You Slay
- Sacrilege - The Fifth Season
- Sathanas - Crowned Infernal
- Setherial - Endtime Divine
- Sins of Omission - The Creation
- Soul Reaper - Life Erazer
- Tad Morose - Leaving the Past Behind
- Tad Morose - Sender of Thoughts
- Tad Morose - Paradigma
- Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
- Therion - Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas
- Therion - Lepaca Kliffoth
- Thulcandra - Fallen Angel's Dominion
- Thulcandra - Under a Frozen Sun
- Thundersteel - Thundersteel
- Tiamat - Sumerian Cry
- Tiamat - A Winter Shadow
- Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
- Tiamat - Clouds
- Tiamat - The Sleeping Beauty (Live in Israel)
- Tiamat - Wildhoney
- Utumno - Across the Horizon
- Vicious Art - Fire Falls and the Waiting Waters
- Wintersun - Wintersun
- Witchery - Restless & Dead
- Witchery - Witchburner
- Witchery - Dead, Hot & Ready
- Witchery - Symphony for the Devil
- Woods of Infinity - Förlåt
- Wuthering Heights - Within
- Various Artists - Beauty in Darkness
- Various Artists - Beauty in Darkness, Vol. 2
- Various Artists - Beauty in Darkness, Vol. 3
- Various Artists - Black Sun Records Catalog 2000
- Various Artists - Come Armageddon: Endtime Productions V Years
- Various Artists - Death ... Is Just the Beginning III
- Various Artists - Death ... Is Just the Beginning IV
- Various Artists - Death ... Is Just the Beginning V
- Various Artists - Death ... Is Just the Beginning VI
- Various Artists - Death ... Is Just the Beginning Classics
- Various Artists - December Songs: A Tribute to Katatonia
- Various Artists - King Diamond Tribute
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams 2
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams 3
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams 4
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams 5
- Various Artists - Metal Message vol. II
- Various Artists - Monsters of Death (DVD)
- Various Artists - Monsters of Death 2 (DVD)
- Various Artists - Slatanic Slaughter
- Various Artists - Slatanic Slaughter II
- Various Artists - Sepulchral Feast: A Tribute to Sepultura (can also be found as "Sepultural Feast")
- Various Artists - Tyrants of the Abyss: A Tribute to Morbid Angel
External links
References
- ^ "Ratsit - Gratis upplysning pĺ företag och privatpersoner". Ratsit.se. http://www.ratsit.se/BC/ReportSmall.aspx?ID=h-yo5vfJB2DmjXw5rXgS2zFD4Ju4gaCtJGN4rs66o20. Retrieved 2011-08-19.
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