Kristian Wåhlin
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| Birth name | Kristian Wåhlin |
| Born | 1971 |
| Origin | Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden |
| Genre(s) | Death metal, Melodic death metal, Black metal, Gothic metal, Power metal, Doom metal |
| Years active | 1988–present |
| Label(s) | Various (as both musician and artist) |
| Website | KristianWahlin.Se |
Kristian Wåhlin (born 1971 in Gothenburg, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, graphic designer, and album cover artist for many bands in the extreme metal scene worldwide.
Wåhlin's interest in art began while attending Schillerska Grammar School, a secondary educational institution in central Gothenburg. He has referenced Romantic and Renaissance painters like Caspar David Friedrich, Albrecht Dürer and Hieronymus Bosch as early influences.[1] This interest also coincided with the time in which he studied music.
At the age of 17, Wåhlin formed Grotesque (as guitarist) with school friend Tomas Lindberg on vocals, Alf Svensson on guitar, and Tomas Eriksson on drums.[2] The 1990 break-up of Grotesque would lead to the formation of At the Gates, who would be credited as instigators of the "Gothenburg Melodic death metal sound". Wåhlin would collaborate with Lindberg and other At the Gates members a short time additionally in the death metal band Liers in Wait, and would go on to design the "Russian icon" cover-art of At the Gates' cornerstone release, Slaughter of the Soul.
Dissection, who shared practice quarters with At the Gates, would display illustrations by Wåhlin on the cover of The Somberlain and also Storm of the Light's Bane; the latter featuring the infamous scene of the "grim reaper horseman" in the middle of a snow-covered forest tundra. In the Nightside Eclipse, the debut of seminal Norwegian black metal band Emperor, would also be graced with his work on the cover. Wahlin would continue as an album artist for several other bands in the European death, black, doom, power and gothic metal collective throughout the 2000s.
Liers in Wait and Decollation would feature musical contribution by Wåhlin before both groups folded in the mid-1990s. In 1995 he started gothic metal band Diabolique, where he was joined by some musicians from bands he had previously been a member of. Diabolique's latest release was The Green Goddess in 2001, with nothing being heard from the band since. Wahlin also collaborated with longtime friend Lindberg in the rock band The Great Deceiver up until the group's split in 2005 but reformed in 2007. Along with the reform, he collaborated with Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon to work on the cover for their latest album, Life Is Wasted On The Living.
His art studio is located in Höganäs municipality, Sweden.
[edit] Discography
- Grotesque - In the Embrace of Evil (guitar)
- Liers in Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art (EP, 1992) (guitar)
- Decollation - Cursed Lands (EP, 1993) (drummer)
- Diabolique - The Diabolique (EP, 1996) (vocals/guitar)
- Diabolique - Wedding The Grotesque (1997) (vocals/guitar)
- Diabolique - The Black Flower (1999) (vocals/guitar)
- Diabolique - Butterflies (EP, 2000) (vocals/guitar)
- Diabolique - The Green Goddess (2001) (vocals/guitar)
- The Great Deceiver - Cave In (EP) (EP, 1999) (guitar)
- The Great Deceiver - Jet Black Art (2000) (guitar)
- The Great Deceiver - A Venom Well Designed (2002) (guitar)
- The Great Deceiver - Terra Incognito (2004) (guitar)
[edit] Album covers
- Amorphis - Elegy
- Antestor - Det Tapte Liv
- Antestor - The Forsaken
- Antestor - Martyrium
- Apostasy - Cell 666
- At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
- Auberon - A Tale of Black
- Bathory - Blood on Ice
- Bathory - Nordland I
- Bathory - Nordland II
- Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. I
- Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. II
- Bathory - In Memory of Quorthon Vol. III
- Benediction – Organised Chaos
- The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal
- Cemetary - The Beast Divine
- Cemetery - An Evil Shade of Grey
- Cemetery - Last Confession
- Cemetery - Sundown
- Cemetery - Phantasma
- Crimson Midwinter - Random Chaos
- Crown of Thorns - The Burning
- Crown of Thorns - Eternal Death
- Crystal Age - Far Beyond Divine Horizons
- Crystal Eyes - Vengeance Descending
- Crystal Eyes - In Silence They March
- Dark Funeral - The Secrets of the Black Arts
- Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
- Desultory - Bitterness
- Diabolique (band) - Wedding the Grotesque
- Diabolique - The Diabolique
- Diabolique - Black Flower
- Diabolique - Butterflies
- Diabolique - The Green Goddess
- Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity
- Dissection - The Grief Prophecy
- Dissection - Into Infinite Obscurity
- Dissection - The Somberlain
- Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
- Dissection - Where Dead Angels Lie
- Dissection - Live Legacy
- Dissection - Maha Kali
- Ebony Tears - Tortura Insomniae
- Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
- Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
- Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
- Ensiferum - Ensiferum
- Ensiferum - Iron
- Ensiferum - Victory Songs
- Equinox ov the Gods, The - Images of Forgotten Memories
- Equinox ov the Gods, The - Fruits and Flowers of the Spectral Garden
- Evergrey - The Dark Discovery (Logo)
- Evergrey - Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy
- Exoto - Thousand Dreams Ago
- Extol - Burial
- Extol - Mesmerized
- Firewind - Between Heaven and Hell
- Godgory - Resurrection
- Godgory - Way Beyond
- Graveworm - Engraved in Black
- Great Deceiver, The - A Venom Well Designed
- Great Deceiver, The - Terra Incognito
- Great Deceiver, The - Jet Black Art
- Great Deceiver, The - Life Is Wasted On The Living (collaboration with Converge's Jacob Bannon)
- Heads Or Tales - Eternity Becomes a Lie
- Heavenly - Coming from the Sky
- Hexenhaus - Deja Voodoo
- Hollow - Modern Cathedral
- Hollow - Architect of the Mind
- Impious - Evilized
- In Aeternum - Forever Blasphemy
- In Aeternum - The Pestilent Plague
- Iron Fire - Thunderstorm
- King Diamond - Voodoo
- Lake of Tears - A Crimson Cosmos
- Lake of Tears - Headstones
- Lake of Tears - The Neonai
- Lake of Tears - Greater Art
- Lake of Tears - Greatest Tears Vol I
- Lake of Tears - Greatest Tears Vol II
- Liers in Wait - Spiritually Uncontrolled Art
- Meduza - Now and Forever
- Memento Mori - La Danse Macabre
- Memento Mori - Songs for the Apocalypse Vol. IV
- Memory Garden - Mirage
- Memory Garden - Forever
- Memory Garden - Verdict of Posterity
- Merciless - Unbound
- Mercyful Fate - Dead Again
- Morgana Lefay - ...---... (SOS)
- Morgana Lefay - Grand Materia
- Morgana Lefay - The Seventh Seal
- Morgana Lefay - Knowing just as I
- Morgana Lefay- The Secret Doctrine
- Morgana Lefay - Maleficium
- Morgana Lefay - Sanctified
- Narnia - Awakening
- Narnia - Desert Land
- Necrophobic - Darkside
- Nifelheim - Nifelheim
- Nifelheim - Devil's Force
- Opprobrium - Discerning Forces
- Rosicrucian - No Cause for Celebration
- Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
- Sacrilege - Lost in the Beauty You Slay
- Sacrilege - The Fifth Season
- Soul Reaper - Life Erazer
- Tad Morose - Leaving the Past Behind
- Tad Morose - Sender of Thoughts
- Tad Morose - Paradigma
- Therion - Symphony Masses: Ho Drakon Ho Megas
- Therion - Lepaca Kliffoth
- Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
- Tiamat - The Astral Sleep
- Tiamat - Sumerian Cry
- Tiamat - Clouds
- Tiamat - Wildhoney
- Tiamat - The Sleeping Beauty (Live in Israel)
- Utumno (Swe) - Across The Horizon
- Various Artists - Beauty in Darkness, Vol. 1
- Various Artists - Beauty in Darkness, Vol. 2
- Various Artists - Black Sun Records
- Various Artists - Come Armageddon: Endtime Productions V Years
- Various Artists - Death is just the Beginning part I
- Various Artists - Death is just the Beginning part II
- Various Artists - Death is just the Beginning part III
- Various Artists - Death is just the Beginning part IV
- Various Artists - Death is just the Beginning part V
- Various Artists - Death is just the Beginning part VI
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams, Vol. 1
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams, Vol. 2
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams, Vol. 3
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams, Vol. 4
- Various Artists - Metal Dreams, Vol. 5
- Various Artists - Slatanic Slaughter I
- Various Artists - Slatanic Slaughter II
- Various Artists - Sepulchral Feast
- Various Artists - Tyrants of the Abyss: A Tribute to Morbid Angel
- Wintersun - Wintersun
- Witchery - Restless & Dead
- Witchery - Witchburner
- Witchery - Dead, Hot & Ready
- Wuthering Heights - Within
