These stuff are about artwork for an epic album “Shogunate Macabre" by a samurai metal band WHISPERED (often called "Kabuki Metal" in Japan) from Finland. The band made some Japanese samurai, yokai and mythology themed songs for this album. And I did the total artwork and layout based on requests from the band.
About the front-cover : From the theme of the album; dark, samurai and yokai, I drew a yokai-samurai/shogun who has body created by many hitodama(human soul). And making the face of the shogun oni-like was a request from the band (it was a cool idea).
About other pages : They're basically what the band requested. For the songs themed on Kappa and Yukionna who are very famous yokai in Japan, I drew them of course. The ghost geisha artwork for the back-cover was also used for the front cover of a digital single "Jikininki".
About CD-label : I drew the oni-like face of the yokai-shogun for the CD-label as a face-disk series from the Wanyudo one of the band's first album "Thousand Swords".
About other pages : They're basically what the band requested. For the songs themed on Kappa and Yukionna who are very famous yokai in Japan, I drew them of course. The ghost geisha artwork for the back-cover was also used for the front cover of a digital single "Jikininki".
About CD-label : I drew the oni-like face of the yokai-shogun for the CD-label as a face-disk series from the Wanyudo one of the band's first album "Thousand Swords".
I remade the album cover-artwork 5-color for this.
"Shogunate Macabre" Hoodie
[ Available worldwide here ]
Lyric video "Lady of the Wind"
This video isn't made by me, but used some of hued artwork I did.
Whispered-Style GINGA: NAGAREBOSHI GIN
For the cover of the anime "Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin
For the cover of the anime "Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin
(aka. Hopeanuoli / Silver Fang)" theme song "Nagareboshi Gin".
The band's request was "Gin with W-helmet", so I did it with its enemy.
And I customized the official Ginga logo look the official Whispered logo I designed.
Whispered-Style FINAL FANTASY VII
For the cover of FFVII fighting song "Let the Battles Begin!".
For the cover of FFVII fighting song "Let the Battles Begin!".
The band's request was "Chocobo with W-helmet", so I did it.
And I customized the meteor of the official FFVII logo look the oni face.
Here are kind posts about 'an ukiyoe-style illustration of Whispered's members'
I drew in the winter of 2013 as a commemorative gift of the band's coming to Japan:
Facebook post
Twitter tweet
Facebook post
Twitter tweet
( And you can like & follow the unique band there ;) )
Thank you for looking!
My other projects about Whispered:
Whispered
Samurai metal band from Finland
