I'm currently digging through old discs and hard drives to recover the original files for these images. I only started putting this page together a couple of days ago, so there's plenty more to come. Some of the work is stored on CDs that I can no longer easily access, but as I recover the files, I'll continue adding to the collection.

A long-overdue Metal Hammer archive

I never got around to creating a dedicated page for my Metal Hammer work. It's something I'd always intended to do, but somehow never found the time. It wasn't until Malcolm from Hellbastard mentioned it the other day that I finally got around to putting it together.

Images from the 1990s and 2000s

Most of the original photography was by Mick Hutson, with the Avenged Sevenfold images shot by John McMurtrie.

All retouching and image manipulation is my work.

marilyn manson

Avenged Sevenfold

I have found an image of the actual cover on Ebay. Now I will go to the garage and see how many of these covers that I had actually saved. So this page is a work in progress.

The original image that I did had a red background and they said we want to use red logo, I can't find the originals but this is more or less the 3 red versions. So the red background was out because of the logo and the gun was too violent to show on the cover.

Trivium

Cover and inside images.

Ville Vallo

The original cover was done in full colour. I did this version at the time hoping they would go for this blue version. The posters are my version. No idea who gave them permission to print them?

I never really liked the wings in these images. They were all I could find on a stock site at the time. I'll take five minutes and make some new ones in Midjourney — yes, the dreaded AI.

I created these Heaven & Hell images for Metal Hammer magazine. They must have done some sort of deal with HIM's management because they ended up being printed at a huge size, around 30 feet tall, and placed on either side of the band. After the show, the fans ripped them down and ran off into the city with them. Ha ha!

Remade these old covers with modern technology June 26

Better ?

Fear Factory just after the Matrix movie came out. On the left was how they had wanted it. I never liked this cover. I had a lot of magazine covers to do that day so was in a bit of a rush. On the right is my own version the cover. I always did my own version hoping they would go for mine. They often did but not this time.

Ramdom images.

Slayer

Sixx

Mick asked me to do my thing. They were good but just regular images. Well shot but not colour graded. Its my signature look. Here are some before and afters. A sort of bleach bypass look.