Roadburn festival announcement: Costin Chioreanu, Roadburn‘s official visual artist alongside Voivod‘s Michel “Away” Langevin, is currently working on a series of band posters for the 2012 festival. Both Costin and Roadburn are pleased to present his next four posters: d.usk /diSEMBOWELMENT, Hexvessel, Sólstafir and Voivod.

Costin‘s poster series will be for sale at Roadburn 2012.

Until then, I must say this art was made, like any other artwork made for HAL, under strictly guidance of Nattramn, so I want to make it clear from the first place the fact that I’m not coming with the concept or the vision, just with my visual representation. Why is this art so special? Because it was made at the beginning of my end…it was December and I was very sick and I had enough time to stay alone in my room and think about so many things…so many things that become like huge waves which were coming over me from all directions. I felt empty, I felt dead, I felt completely alone and I understand for the first time in my life why. The pain caused by all these waves it’s simply impossible to be described. This image is also very special as it is a hand made painting and nothing more…I didn’t paint in the classic mode for almost 6-7 years.

So…back to waves…for me is like a self portrait at the moment it was made. Of course, right now, I’m under all this heavy water.

I don’t think it’ s important, just like I don’t think it’s more important than it’s own existence.

Above all else, it’s a piece of me, for which I dug into the deepest, darkest corners of my soul in order to drag out. In those places, that even I didn’t know were so bleak, I was carried by a river of disappointment, whose speed and power grew stronger the further I went in my search, both in and out, among people.

But is disappointment such a bad thing? Isn’t it some sort of exorcism of deception?

For now I’ll stay with what it’s been, and this song is the summary of the last months I’ve lived.

13 is not a name, 13 is not a band, 13 is me, finding myself in it. 13 is not what people that didn’t know what I look like called me when writing my name down, along with alternatives. 13 doesn’t play a certain genre, 13 is not a category, 13 is what I feel. I believe that man doesn’t need names or categories, society needs them.

We are chaos, and words cannot define us, no matter how desperately we want it.
Dedicated to my forgotten brother, Bogdan “Tom” Groman.

13 – Ihwaz by Asiluum