Caelan Stokkermans
Freelance Artist
Art Director and Senior Product Management at Unique Leader Records
About
I am an illustrator and graphic designer of eight years based out of Cleveland, Ohio. I started out as a freelance artist in the music industry working with metal bands illustrating logos, artwork and merchandise. Since then I have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of talented bands, record labels and companies. I have also had the opportunity to work in other fields such as fantasy illustration, book covers and concept artwork. I am currently working at Unique Leader Records as Art Director and Senior Product Management.
I am a self-taught artist with a style inspired by the old masters, baroque, symbolist, romanticism and dark art. My technique is the same as traditional oil painting done using a digital medium. My work is also strongly influenced by the occult, mythology and theology with a modern take. My creative mediums include Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Wacom Cintiq 16' HD and a Canon EOS 80D.
Art being my main passion, I also enjoy photography, video games, Magic The Gathering, reading and traveling.
All online articles featuring my work
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DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS
Heavy Blog Is Heavy:
And Hell Followed With “Chimerical Reality” Artwork Review
And Justice For Art
Artificial Lifeforce Artwork feature
Impaler Single Artwork Feature
The Butchering Artwork Feature
Archaic Decapitator Artwork Feature
Portals "Desolation" Artwork Feature
Cattle Decapitation The Geocidal Tendencies Tour Flyer Design
Abiotic "Ikigai" Artwork Feature
Interloper "Search Party" Artwork Feature
Heaviest Of Art
The Best Metal Album Covers of July 2020
Top 30 Album Covers of 2020 (Slow Decay Feature)
The Best Album Covers of February 2021
The Best Album Covers of July 2021
The Revival of English Romanticism in the Work of Caelan Stokkermans
Satanic Panic Exhibition
Satanic Panic Exhibition Feature
Noob Heavy
25 Glorious Metal Album Covers of 2019
CGTrader
12 Imaginary Places You Would Love To Experience
Designideas.pics
All physical media featuring my work
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PHYSICAL PUBLICATIONS
Masterpieces 2018
Published 2019 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 56.
Artwork featured: Soreption "Monument of the End" commissioned by Sumerian Records
Arte Arcana: Lucifero
Published 2019 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 80-81.
Artwork featured: Swallowed Alive (Exclusive), Diabolus and commissioned artwork for Dark Usurper.
Arte Arcana
Published 2018 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 74-76.
Artwork featured: Engineers, Megalith, Originator, Hedron and commissioned artworks for Bogwraith and Slave I.
Ripping Tongues
Published 2022 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 364.
Metal For Free Speech artist interview.
Masterpieces 2020 (Special Edition)
Published 2021 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 108, 141 & 218-220.
Artwork featured: The Acacia Strain || Rise Records
Crafting The Conspiracy || Innerstrength Records
Fires In The Distance || Prosthetic Records
Masterpieces 2019 Highlight Artist Award
Published 2020 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 2-3 & 28-33.
Artwork featured: And Hell Followed With, Chimerical Reality || Hollowed Records
Lorna Shore, Immortal || Century Media
Waking Mayhem, Attrition || Independent Release
Vesperian Sorrow, Regenesis Creation || Black Lion Records
Vale of Pnath, Accursed || Willowtip Records
Horned (Metalhead Book Of Goats
Published 2022 by Heavy Music Artwork. Back Cover + Pages 14, 16
Artwork featured: Abigail Williams, Shrine Of Malice, Crown Magnetar goat illustrations.
Hexed (Metalhead Book Of Witches)
Published 2023 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 54, 74-75.
Artwork featured: Crown Magnetar “Alone In Death,” Metallium, Snake Father.
Snakes
Published 2023 by Heavy Music Artwork.
Artwork featured: Interloper “Search Party”
PODCASTS
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Video + audio interviews
Heavy Art Talk
Heavy Art Talk Ep. 36: Caelan Stokkermans
Spearhead’s Metal Art
Metalworx - The Dark Art Master CAELAN STOKKERMANS
The Anatomy Crosscast
Graphic Arts, Anti AI Art Debate, & The Future! | EP 60: Caelan Stokkermans
The BTL Podcast
Every band, client and label I have worked with since starting in 2015
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CLIENT LIST
Unique Leader Records
Rise Records
Metal Blade Records
Century Media Records
Nuclear Blast Records
Sumerian Records
Eone
MNRK Heavy
Wax Vessel
The Artisan Era
Sharptone Records
Season Of Mist
Stay Sick Recordings
Black Lion Records
Secret Swarm
Prosthetic Records
Vicious Instinct Records
Willowtip Records
Transcending Records
RealityFade Records
Deadboy Records
Indiemerch
Rising Merch
Angelmaker
Crown Magentar
Mental Cruelty
Rivers of Nihil
Fallujah
Enterprise Earth
Born Of Osiris
Oceano
The Faceless
The Zenith Passage
Humanity’s Last Breath
Abigail Williams
Cryptopsy
Abiotic
I Am
Worm Shepherd
Shadow Of Intent
She Must Burn
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life
Carcosa
Allegaeon
A Wake In Providence
Soreption
Voyager
Abysses
Adversial Machines
Bakasura
Closed Casket
Coven
Cursed Creation
Deathcult
Disembodied Tyrant
Frontiers
Fire At Dawn
Fear The Unknown
Freely Spoken
Gravebirth
Hollow Words
Last Word
Lynchpin
Nihilitus
Obelisk Of Obsession
Pound
Une Misere
Venom & Spirit
Your Finest Hour
Six Temples
Sulfuric Baptism
The Acacia Strain
Lorna Shore
Cattle Decapitation
Bring Me The Horizon
Rose In Good Faith
Suicide Silence
Entheos
Currents
Heaven Shall Burn
Impending Doom
Misery Index
A Night In Texas
Distant
Signs Of The Swarm
Within Destruction
Thy Art Is Murder
Ingested
Fit For An Autopsy
And Hell Followed With
Vale Of Pnath
Face Yourself
Mire Lore
Molotov Solution
Ladee Danger
Canticles
A Night In The Abyss
The Voynich Code
Anakim
Art Of Attrition
Befallen
Crafting The Conspiracy
Emberthrone
Anahata
Archaic Decapitator
Art of Attrition
Artificial Lifeforce
Blighted Eye
Blood Of Gods Zine
Bury The Rod
Catacylsian
Cogitations
Crusadist
Deathmask
Deformatory
Dematerialize
Devady Bladez
xGorex
Drown In The Abyss
Embers Of Helix
Existentialist
Extinction Coefficient
Flood
Glass Mimic
Grofbol
Imperishable
Aberration Within Arcadia
Ambrosia Scheme
Apothus
Aurglass
Boundaries
Cosmigod
Depraved Will
Djent Space
Elaris
Equipoise
Euclid
The Kraken’s Den
Till The Dirt
Triune
The Worst Case Scenario
Ophidian I
Volatile Ways
Interloper
Shush
To The Grave
Organectomy
Peeling Flesh
Brand Of Sacrifice
Carrion Vael
First Fragment
Hideous Divinity
Mental Cruelty
Kraanium
Jungle Rot
Osiah
Viscera
Atoll
Bonecarver
Extermination Dismemberment
Wretched Tongues
Disciples of Exile
Display Of Decay
Echoes Of Misanthropy
Emerald City
Exocrine
Extinction Coefficient
Eyes Of Perdition
Fall Of Scylla
Flare
Follow The Awakened
Half Heard Voices
Heartwell
Heathercrest
Impalers
In Asymmetry
In Faith We Fear
IO
Ivyllines
Lacerate Thy Maker
Martial Law
Miradjex
Nahtram
Ophidian Memory
Path Of Giants
Polyphemus
Raise The Death Toll
Rat King
Renatus
Sable Hill
Scorn Haven
Shores Of Ithaka
Singularity
Soul Debt
Spectrum Of Delusion
Sterilizing The Deceased
Sun Of Colossus
Swallowed Alive
Synestia
The Holy Grail
Tongues Of Ineloquence
Vesperian Sorrow
Via Proxima
Whisteria Cottage
Winter’s Gate
Within The Void
Kaom
Kingdom Of Shadows
Mana Tomb
Marrowwomb
Metal Threads Merch
Molotov Solution
Null
Sentinels
Acranius
Inferi
The Breathing Process
Arkaik
Snake Father
The Dark Alamorte
Gamma Sector
Pincore
Xenosis
Yharnam
A Malicious Plague
Apotheon
Anhedonia
Awaiting The Lullaby
Beyond The Void
Bogwraith
Craving For Chaos
Dark Usurper
Decimated Humans
Depths
Desolate Earth
Dismantle The Architect
Divitius
Earth Eater
Ezerath
Fires In The Distance
Iron Code
Metalium
Mortal Thrall
My Own Will
Nightmare Canvas
Oath To Order
Omophagia
One Vote For Violence
Pandorium
Portals
Raze The Void
Reliqa
Reversionist
Slave I
So This Is Suffering
Splatterpuss
Svn, Seeker
Swarmageddon
Tau Zero
The Eating Cave
The Blessing Of This Curse
Trigger
Trinity Site
Truent
Visceral hatred
Vomit The Soul
Waking Mayhem
When Plagues Collide
Putrefaction Management
Sea Of Treachery
The Archaic Epidemic
The Gloom In The Corner
The Goatjuring
NYHC Tattoo