Hostile, formed in 2006 by Lead guitarist A.J who was brought up in a grave yard house in the heart of the Black Country (The birth place of Heavy metal). The band has gone through a number of personnel changes since their formation with the current line-up consisting of vocalist James Mills, Lead guitar A.J […]
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Logo design for Conflicted
“Metal and Classical. Screams and Whispers. Technique and Emotion. Definitions at odds with each other fusing together to form the sound that is CONFLICTED.” I created a new logo for them and currently I’m designing album artwork (which is to be released later on so stay tuned) for their upcoming album called “In The Water”. […]
Logo design for Spanish based instrumental band Ciconia
Ciconia plays instrumental and progressive metal hailing from Spain. I got the opportunity to redesign their logo. Read below their biography and remember to check their music. This is what the band is all about: After more than 18 years playing, touring, composing and recording with several different bands, the musician Jorge Fraguas (Bass player) […]
Bandmill got featured in Helsingin Sanomat
This is old news, I know. but as I just managed to get my website working again properly I got to release this one also. My work got featured in Helsingin Sanomat newspaper! The biggest newspaper in Finland. I am extremely honored for such feature. For further reading there was also articles in their website: “Pete […]
New logo for Spiritz – a hard rockin’ band from Ukraine!
Spiritz is a hard rockin band from Ukraine! I got the chance to design a new logo for them and some website graphics. Album cover to follow! Make sure to check them out! http://www.spiritzband.com
Best rock and metal album covers from February to May 2014 part 2
Here’s the second part of my monthly album cover choices. Read the first part from here. Have a nice summer everyone!
New logo for Octanic by Bandmill
I got the honor to redesign one of Australians finest metal bands Octanics new logo. Bio from their website: Australian 6-piece metal band OCTANIC seamlessly fuse together elements of hard rock, melodic death and modern metal, laced with classical undertones. This unique combination gives OCTANIC the aggressiveness, punch and intensity of metal with the melodic […]
Best rock and metal album covers from February to May 2014 part 1
I just gathered all the best covers from February to May and it was such a huge package I decided to divide it into two separate posts. Next one will be published 5th of June so stay tuned!
Van Canto interview published
Did this interview with heavymetalartowrk.com! Once again things that I don’t understand (in this case a cappella style music) turns out extremely good when combined with heavy metal. This band is really great so read the interview and check out their latest CD! http://www.heavymetalartwork.com/van-canto.html
Best rock and metal album covers from January 2014
As we are already turning towards the end of February I thought it was about the time to reveal the best album artwork from January 2014. Once again nice work from various rock and metal bands. It will be a pleasure to see what kind of trends and visual movements we will see throughout the […]
Metal presented in simple colour palettes
Happy New Year 2014 to all of you! I’m happy to announce my latest article ‘Metal presented in simple colour palettes’ published in Worlds leading website for heavy metal art heavymetalartwork.com. I took some classic metal albums from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Metallica and downshifted their famous albums colour palettes to the minimum just to see […]
Comparing bands first and latest album covers article now online
Check this out, my article about comparing bands first and latest album covers is now online on heavymetalartwork.com which is the biggest on-line source for metal art! http://www.heavymetalartwork.com/comparing-bands-first-and-latest-album-covers.html
Me, K.K. Downing and Mark Wilkinson talking about Judas Priest album covers
Recently I got a request from one of the biggest hard rock webzines PureGrainAudio.com to comment on Priest album covers together with K.K. Downing and Mark Wilkinson. The result is now online, go and read it from here!
Pete Alander featured in a book “Pandemonium. An Extreme Metal Art Gallery”
Good news! I have been selected as one of the artists for a book about metal art and culture called “Pandemonium. An Extreme Metal Art Gallery“. It is now available as an iPad APP for a special price so all you Apple-freaks go there and give it a shot! There is a few page feature of […]
Latest work: Updated website for Yngwie Malmsteen
Today Bandmill and Malmsteen MGMT unleashed the beast that is Yngwie J. Malmsteen’s updated website. Many years ago I got the opportunity to re-design Yngwies website and now it was time to update what I previously did. Site is now running on a responsive CMS platform and the structure of the site has been polished […]
