Stay Hungry, photo collage from the "No Beginning, No End" 12"

I did this collage for the insert of the first Stay Hungry record, old school cut and paste style. We had only played a couple of shows by then, but I added loads of funny hang out pictures and ended up with a pretty cool thing here. Loads of friends, shenanigans and weird things happening. See Andy's hand reaching for my ass? See Joel Skog stepping on the Risk board game? See Andy punching a heavily grimacing Goran in the face? In the end, the collage was printed in black and white, which made it lose some of its charm, as well as the "Speak English Or Die" feel I was hoping for, but it still looked sweet enough. 

Iron To Gold, flyer for "In The Zone" 7"

Iron To Gold has been my favorite European hardcore band for a couple of years now. A great demo was followed by two incredible EPs in 2011, with these old school Poles perfecting their ultra tight mix of Judge, early Strife and Inside Out. Over time I've come to know the band a little bit, especially after flying them up here for four shows in October 2012, hanging with Pat at Fluff and their guitar player in Exile, Piotr, in Stockholm. Pat asked me to make a flyer for their upcoming third 7", saying "make it look like a flyer for 'Only The Strong' compilation," referring to the early Victory release. In the end, after giving it my own touch, I realized it was pretty close to a Hardware Fanzine look, and so I just went all in with that, as it is a pretty cool thing anyway.

Iron To Gold on facebook.
Iron To Gold on bandcamp.

xRepentancex - Statement rip shirt design

Pat asked me to do a rip of the classic Statement "Prepare For Battle" EP cover. Since XREPENTANCEX contains more characters than STATEMENT, I had to make the font smaller, but I still think it turned out pretty cool. Other than that it was all just quick photoshop stuff to make it look good on a white background. I have made a second shirt for the band too, which should be printed quite soon I reckon. Really glad to be asked to work with these lads, as xRepentancex is one of my favorite current European bands. Pat's riffage is insanely good, setting the band apart from other current 90's inspired units. 

xRepentancex on facebook

xRepentancex on bandcamp

Correction, demo, sticker and shirt

Correction is a band I've been doing with my brother in arms Mattias since last winter. Nick Tape released our demo on the US on his new Flophouse Records and Tapes, and Pat got the European version out on Carry the Weight. Later on we even got an Australian tape out, via Lloyd at Good Clean Hate (props for the OCHC reference dude!).

The tape has a picture of saw mill workers in Sundsvall, Sweden, accompanied by a little text about how they banned alcohol during a strike in their city. The back has a sweet Brotherhood-remake picture taken by Yohanna of Yo Vegan fanzine. I went for a pretty unruly cut and paste layout for the lyrics, and dig how it turned out. I guess I like this side better than the front, in the end.

Here are also a couple of merch items. First off a sticker and patch design. I scanned a tiny picture from an old fanzine that I bought almost 20 years ago. I love old school rasterized images. It is hard as fuck to get the same feel while using filters in Photoshop. I guess I should learn to do it the correct, manual way instead. The words look blurry and fucked up but turned out super cool on the prints.

The shirt has a collage of various fucked up things, with the big Xd up fist in the middle symbolizing not hiding away from any of the world's insanity via mind-numbing substances, religion or other ways to forget about reality. 

Correction at Flophouse
Order the US version here.
Correction at the CTW bandcamp.

Australian version with red X on the tapes.

Dan from Barge fame holding up the US version, also seen below.

Mr Flophouse himself posing with a Correction shirt in Atlanta, and live in Tampa, FL during the Coke Bust "Confined" tour the summer of 2013.

Sectarian Violence tour posters

These two posters were made for the spring tours in 2012 (top) and 2013. I had a lot of fun doing them, especially when trying to make the second one look different while still keeping a recognizable theme. For the 2013 design I guess I aimed at a mix of a punky feel and old political propaganda posters. We have used the image of the Yugoslav anti-fascist partisan Stjepan Filipović elsewhere on a shirt design, and I thought it was suitable to make use of here too. I like how the maps of France, Spain and Portugal, at a quick glance, can be seen as drips of blood. Or at least that's the thought.  

Violent Reaction - Anti-Social Straight Edge

Tom from Violent Reaction asked me to do a shirt saying "Anti-Social Straight Edge," and requested that I'd use the "Flex Your Head" font. That's about all the instructions I received. I re-did the logo on the front to make it a bit more circular, as opposed to the oval shape it had at first, in order to fit it better to the text around it. Still so, with its rather irregular shape, I decided to not have "Violent Reaction" written too perfectly, hense the crooked letters. I then went for the same thing on the arched text on the back, for better or worse.

For a while, there was a rumor that the face on the back belonged to an infamous English idiot who MDC once wrote a song about. That is however just a rumor. 

There have been multiple different colors of this, as you can see here. I have also been told that a misunderstanding in the US led to a run of shirts with the back-print as front-print, but I haven't actually seen any of those.

Nice inside-joke reference in the big cartel description below as well. 

Violent Reaction on facebook.

Violent Reaction on bandcamp.

Violent Reaction has a blog too.

https://soundcloud.com/violent-reaction/sets/violent-reaction-lp

Ego Trip - The Crew demo insert

This one was a bit of a challenge since I needed to get quite a lot to fit into a tiny space. I used a classic image of Terry Butcher all bloody and with crazy eyes after a game against Sweden, and added the boy with the gun, fooling around with a Judge patch on his shirt and so on. The lyrics were hand-written by me, and I made them look quite rugged on purpose - no need to make this look "perfect." 

The throw-up logo was painted by my man Jacob.

Listen to "The Crew."

Ego Trip on facebook.