Costin Chioreanu comments: “When I’m working on a band-related project, I listen to the band’s music and get into the atmosphere. In the case of Tombs, I was inspired to illustrate the decline of the American Dream. I named the piece ‘Dying Mother of Exiles.’ The decomposing main character resembles Saint Mary more closely than the Statue of Liberty, but I always like to incorporate more ideas into my art that support a main theme.

“I think the result successfully illustrates the tension, the decadence and the inner despair, without having [an overt political agenda], which I consider the most horrible thing to be included in art of any kind. [The poster art] portrays what I feel about America based on two important things: my personal experience and the signals that several bands there are sending at a spiritual level. I really think there is a frequency where the common consciousness is working…

“I really like the weird feeling that Oranssi Pazuzu’s music gives me. My brain normally measures and expresses things using imagery, so maybe that’s why when I listen to their music it sends me on an interesting trip that lets me explore surreal places and landscapes in the universe. It’s like a good adventure movie with a powerful science fiction touch. When I was a kid I was obsessed with sci-fi (and still am). I decided to use ‘Andromeda’ for the artwork: the name of the song also refers to the stories I devoured when I was younger. To me, the result is like a postcard from where my mind travels listening to this music.

“For Virus, the result might be a jolt to some eyes, but I was just being honest: whenever I listen to Virus I imagine an old Russian movie. I get flashbacks from Tarkovsky movies or Russian sci-fi stuff. This band has a unique approach; their dissonant, surreal riffs convey the kind of anxiety unique to Russian films. ‘Endangered Technology’ is a mixture of ideas: it is both connected to latest Virus album graphic concept and pushes the core further into a new dimension of surrealism and sci-fi. The name of the artwork can also be taken as a reference to Voivod, a fantastic band with whom Virus has something very important in common, namely dissonance-based originality and creativity. The title itself is a metaphor for the extreme state of dehumanization that contemporary consumer society has reached.”

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

Unlike “Where Purgatory Ends,” which featured metaphorical reflections on daily life and transcendent childhood memories, “Too Late for Rainbows” deals with spiritual crimes that man has been plotting for thousands of years and is about to commit. While the artist is aware of the imminence of this process and its consequences, he also understands that the unseen world, almost gone from the conscience of man, will swiftly return. The visual discourse is a graphical and metaphorical observation of the final moments of this spiritual apocalypse, for the unseen world and the bond it shares are the most important endangered species in man’s world.

Cause (Riddle)
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“I have been and always am with you, anywhere, even where your shadow
doesn’t follow you, until you find me. I am hidden by you in many, in so
many that you even forgot the way to really look for me.”

Effect
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It the beginning there was the word.
And men described with words what was around them, creating pictures.
Pictures of the definable translated the indefinable.
So words turned empty and the empty end of rainbows filled the sky.
And now… now there is just noise.

In a world of carnal noise
Our time has come again,
Silent.

As many of you can hear our silence,
As many of you will step forward.

It’s a huge honor to be included in the next year Roadburn Festival line-up and I am really grateful to Walter for finding my art interesting at this level! I would like to share with you a great interview, made by Stefan Raduta, a very special one, where you’ll be able to see for the first time also 3 artworks from Nattram’s book, G r i s h j ä r t a. Here is the interview….
http://transylvanianhungerrr.blogspot.com/2011/12/art-of-costin-chioreanu.html

The Ava Inferi video was completely filmed in Portugal and it will be officially released on December 13.
More info – in few days. Until then, you have the poster…of this… movie.

I hope we will be able to put a song up somewhere on internet soon. Until then, check out the cover.

This exclusive tshirt design will be for sale, as it’s written also on it, just during the LIVE EVIL Festival!!!!! Get your ticket and have the chance to see same very cool bands and buy this extra limited item! Of course, hand made art!!!
http://www.liveevilfestival.com/

This fantastic exhibition debuted in the wonderful medieval fortress of Alba Iulia where it left the crowd awestruck. And now it’s here for you to see it, feel it and hear it. It’s more than just an exhibition – it’s a three-part experience.

The gallery itself will host thirteen large images printed on black canvas, all representing various important moments in the young Artist’s career. Some of these beautiful works are dreams waiting to materialize while others are pure, idealized utopias. However most are just memories that just really needed to be set free.

At the core of the exhibition lies The Seeker – a personal visualization of the Soul’s asexuality, a half-male half-female entity, sentient energy questing for self-discovery through universes and life cycles. Where Purgatory Ends is a unique experience.

Aside from the visual feast, a communion will take place where the guest will be invited to eat cookies in the shape of birds – a common theme in all of the works presented. The viewer is then united with the world portrayed on the walls and their own body.

Third and last, to accompany the artwork and align the senses, a soundtrack fills the space. The music is written and recorded by Costin himself and Rune Eriksen (of the mighty Aura Noir, Ava Inferi, ex-Mayhem) together with Andrei Ionut (bass) and Tudor Diaconescu – violin. The soundtrack is 22 minutes long and is a dark avant-garde synthesis of diverse genres including Dark Ambient, Doom Metal and Black Metal.

More details here.
http://singevalah.blogspot.com/

And here is the art that is already printed on a limited edition of tshirts.

Here it is!