New blog

Just go to www.attheends.com and you'll find the blog under news.

A few kampfar shirts for sale.

I have a few copies of these for sale, drop me an email if you want to buy one.
(These were only sold at the US shows).

 25 euro.

Some updates to the portfolio

I've added some new projects to the portfolio at www.attheends.com . Some more updates are coming the following days and weeks.

Fett

Here's my illustration for this number of Fett

Poster for Against The Grain

Against the Grain premieres at bergen school of architecture this Wednesday. There will also be vinyl for sale. I made the posters for this.

I walked under water

This is a new fanzine I plan on making a print of to an event here in Bergen. It's called "I walked under water".

Creatives

One of my favorite websites has an article series running, on creative couples. Kind of fun to read and nice to see a different angle on how to work as a creative person combined, or entwined with everyday life.

http://thestrangeattractor.net/?cat=462

Above and Beyond

Someone bought and framed one of the drawings from the Above and Beyond festival earlier this year, and this is how it looks now. Thanks!

Disapperance

"The Flannan Isles Mysteries was the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers in 1900 who vanished from their duty stations, leaving behind equipment important to surviving the hostile conditions at that location and time of year. However, the official explanation for the disappearances was mundane, concluding that the men were swept out to sea by a freak wave."

Anti Sweden

I'm one of seven finalists in an Anti Sweden design competition. Would be very nice if everyone could to this link, and click like beneath the picture to vote for me. Thanks!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=290257664321463&set=a.290257377654825.92149.115463025134262&type=1&theater

Monstereo, Sonic Wall

One of the best bands out there right now. I honored to be working with such great music, check out sonic wall on spotify and the cover here:

http://open.spotify.com/track/1B1Xq22ZSGv9pbO0tGSAXH

Against the grain

From http://againstthegrainbergen.blogspot.com/

The first official screening will be held at Bergen Arkitekt Skole 12.10.2011. 19:00In collaboration with Bergen Student Society.Against the Grain: Et manifest for romlig musikkTid: 12.10.2011 19.00Sted: Bergen Arkitektskole (Sandviken)"I dag har man muligheten til å lage musikk uten å ta i bruk et fysisk rom i det hele tatt. Hva skjer når den nye teknologien møter det fysiske rommet?"

I made the posters for this project.

Kampfar shirts for north american tour

Custom designs based on the album artwork, these are printed by Liberated Images to a limited amount of 150 copies. The shirts are sold at their north american tour, so if you want to get your hands one one of them, you have to be fast. 

HEKSED

Seems like this one is official, here's the front cover for the digital and digipack edition of Heksed' debut album. You can buy the album on itunes here: http://itunes.apple.com/no/album/heksed/id456965905?l=nb

Fyrnask, Bluostar

I made artwork for the debutalbum of Fyrnask. The album is due to be released on Temple of Tortorous this fall, from the label:

 "...only our husks are here. The skies above us are frost. Even the stars here shrivel with coldness. 

Only shadows on gaunt horses that cross the empty landscapes with empty bellies and quivers full, and their eyes full of envy and hate.  We are left to wander at the worlds dizzying edges..."Musically, "Bluostar" can be best described as a combination of classic black metal rooted from the harsh landscapes of Northern Europe together with an eerie ambience which can be only witnessed in the darkest rites from primeval times. 

To quote a reference, FYRNASK’s debut is a perfect mixture of Paysaga D’hiver and Fauna!

Selling Points:

After the highly praised demo “Fjǫrvar ok Benjar”, together with ToT Records, The German project “FYRNASK” finally presented their first full-length

Mastered by Mell Dettmer in Aleph Studio, US. (Sunn o))), Earth, Boris, etc) 

4pp digisleeve with 12pp full-color booklet

Artwork done by At the Ends of Earth Designs (Kampfar, Drautran, etc)

First 100 customers will receive deer bones as die hard addition.

The album comes in an uncoated digifile, and 12 page booklet. More of the artwork will be published on my portfolio www.attheends.com soon. Check out some of the music here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7m7ZmtXKTY&feature=youtube_gdata

Insurgency Tour

I uploaded most of the designs I did for the Insurgency Tour this june to my website, at attheends.com .
The next two weeks I'll be working on the front cover for The Fall of Every Seasons "Amends" album.

Summer at the office

This summer has been mostly dedicated to drawing. I've been working with this fantastically amazing guys from Oslo, until very recently called Recovery Injection. Now called Heksed. Check them out on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/HEKSED/102710316493008

At the ends of the earth designs moved his office and pens over to Berlin earlier in june to work this project and catch up on some long overdue inspiration. The result is a massive amount of ink, lines, curves and details that makes the artwork for this release. We've decided to release a little sneakpeak, and this is a peak of a detail of something that goes inside the artwork somewhere:

Here is some of the music:

I'm also working on layout for the new Enthral album. That one sounds quite good, and the artwork is made by one of the members of the bands. The entire package and music and all feels very wholesome, and I'm really looking forward to the result on that one. 

Evoken just contaced me to make some new shirts that will accompany the artwork for their split release with Beneath The Frozen Soil. Some of the stuff we made for the booklet there deserves more attention I think, so this will be cool!

I've also managed to finish up the artwork for the upcoming Fyrnask album on Temple of Tortorus, that's going to be a very nice packaging, so keep an eye out for that one. 

A couple of more projects is in the works as well, but more about that later. If you're in Norway this summer, be sure to check out Apeiron Restraint on their insurgency tour, that's At The ends work as well: Insurgency Tour

Insurgency Tour

I was lucky enough to get the chance to design the entire profile for this crazy tour taking part in Norway this summer. This is going to be something you don't want miss out on.

Here's a description in the bands own words:


"Apeiron Restraint will commence on an epic journey this summer. Taking place in the southern half of Norway from July 17 - August 13, we will lay out on the Insurgency Tour: A Tour in Four Acts. Joining us are awesome bands from a wide range of the Norwegian metal scene. As a nomad metal circus, a couple of fresh bands will play with us every week when the we return to town.

Seven venues in seven cities. 28 concerts in 28 days, 8000km on the road. The tour is completely financed out of the band members’ pockets. Apeiron Restraint is now working as a label, management, and booking agency as we book all the bands and venues personally. The locations for the tour will be, in order: Molde, Bergen, Stavanger, Kristiansand, Oslo, Lillehammer, and Trondheim.

This is madness. A tour concept like this has never been done in Norway ever. The film documentarists from News on Request (known for producing Himmelblå and Død Snø) are sending a camera crew along on the road to make a 50 minute documentary about the tour. We are launching a PledgeMusic campaign to help materialize the creation of this documentary."

Anyway, here's the main promo posters:

Below here is how I got to that point. I had an idea to map some of the elements from the original artwork into a more hand drawn thing. The only problem was that the whole thing looked a bit to black metal. I guess they needed something a bit more in your face. The final result is elements from the original artwork and some elements from this drawing. 

The tour poster is aslo going to be printed in different version with tour dates, and bands, and some of the artwork is going to be used on t-shirts, posters etc. 

Check out more regarding this tour here: www.insrugencytour.com

Apeiron Restraint EP

The Apeiron Restraint EP is finally released, here's the artwork:

The fantastic chaps in Monstereo just put out some music on the interweb. I've had the great privilege to take photos and make some design. Check out their 13 minute opus here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monstereo/163729030343999?ref=ts&sk=wall and keep a close watch. More to come!

Krysser fingrene og håper på det beste

Apeiron Restraint Release and some doom

Apeiron Restraint is going to release their EP very soon, and I've designed the poster for the release gig along with every other design item they've got so far. Keep an eye out for these guys. The EP artwork will be revealed as soon as the EP is released.

 

For those who likes doomsday music, you can check out my list on spotify: Dommedagsfavoritter

some more muzak

Cult of Luna is one of my favorite bands, their Salvation album really hit me when it came back in 2004, and ever since they seem to create something different and equally strong each time they come with a studio album. I saw them on the Inferno Festival in Oslo, and I remember when they played Dark City, Dead Man from their Somewhere Along the Highway album, as an ending to the whole concert; whaao, great. Here's the song Adrift from Salvation with two drummers, nice!

The guitarist has made all of their cover sleeves, check out some of his works here: http://www.studioparallell.se/

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Some drawings

I got some drawings and a couple of photos published in a student paper called Samviten, you can find them around in Bergen if you want to have a look at it.

I also did quite a few updates to the portfolio, check it at www.attheends.com