Affe Piran of Obnoxious Youth: "The main purpose will always be to communicate complete and utter chaos"

Affe Piran on stage with Obnoxious Youth in Hamburg Photo courtesy of Thomas Ertner

We are thrilled here at Unearthed Mirrors to feature a conversation with a man behind so many projects that we all have been appreciating for quite a long time now: from the speed heavy metal madness of Obnoxious Youth, to the unforgettable artwork of In Solitude's self titled debut album; as well as the apocalyptic doom of Endtime and recently we have also become aware that he is going to be part of another creature we are totally looking forward to: he is in fact also producing nothing less than Reveal!'s upcoming album.
Sure we should not forget to mention that he was in Uppsala's hardcore band Undergång (as you might remember, Uno of In Solitude used to be part of the band, too, and we possibly can't mention them without linking to this historical photo here); and that he also recorded VORUM's death metal assault "Poisoned Void". Indeed, the list could go on and on and by now you have probably guessed that we are talking about none other than Affe Piran, who is mostly known for being the vocalist of Obnoxious Youth, but has been, and is now more than ever, recklessly busy spreading visual and musical blasphemies in a lot of ways. Read below what he had to say about Obnoxious Youth's latest EP "Mouths Sewn Shut", about painting the cover artwork for In Solitude's debut back at the time, about DIY culture, the Reveal!'s album he is producing and more.

Cover artwork and tracklist for Reveal!' s "Scissorgod"

Today Reveal! have shared on their official Facebook page further details about their upcoming album "Scissorgod": here we meet for the first time its grotesquely terrific cover artwork and its tracklist, which already sounds like a declaration of (wicked) intents:

01.Scissorgod 02.Harder Harder 03.Decomposer 04.Down Thru The Hole 05.Feeble Hearts 06.Clevermouth 07.The Plot Thickens 08.What Pigs Get 09.Cointoss

"Scissorgod" will be out on Sepulchral Voice Records on November 29th, 2019 and we can't wait to hear what kind of insane and twisted turn the new Reveal!'s creature has taken.

Black Salvation: "Uncertainty is Bliss" details and tour dates

Psychedelic rockers Black Salvation will release their album "Uncertainty is Bliss", recorded with Uno Bruniusson on drums, on April 6th, 2018 on Relapse Records. With an impressive cover artwork painted by   Benjamin Springer, the album contains 8 songs plus two bonus tracks:

1. In A Casket's Ride
2. Floating Torpid
3. Breathing Hands
4. The Eye That Breathes
5. Leair
6. A Direction is Futile
7. Grey River
8. Getting Slowly Lost
9. The Chapel (Bonus Track)
10. Follow Me Down (Bonus Track)

The mesmerizing, hard-rocking track "In A Casket's Ride" can be heard on Bandcamp.
Later on in April, Black Salvation will present "Uncertainty is Bliss" in several venues:

Death Alley's "Superbia" details and pre-orders

Heavy psychorockers Death Alley will release their second studio album titled "Superbia" on March 23rd, 2018 on Century Media Records and in the meanwhile here is a glimpse at the skillfully drawn, hallucinatingly horror-esque cover artwork:

The tracklist appears to be as follows:

"The Origin of Fire" art exhibition and musical event in Stockholm

The diabolically gifted hand of artist Timo Ketola is behind the cover artwork for Watain's new single "Nuclear Alchemy", as well as several other outstanding artworks such as Watain's "Casus Luciferi"; Venenum's "Trance of Death"; illustrations on Dissection's "Reinkaos" ; Deathspell Omega's "Paracletus", and many, many more (visit and follow Tentacula.org to see more of his works).

(Some of T. Ketola's artworks: Venenum's "Trance of Death", Watain's "Nuclear Alchemy",
Deathspell Omega's "Paracletus". From tentaculaorg.tumblr.com).

A selection of his artworks, along with those of artists Sami Albert Hynninen and Welt (Yama Tattoo), will be featured at the upcoming art exhibition "The Origin of Fire" happening at Kraken in Stockholm on November 25th

Degial 's "Predator Reign" cover artwork by Paolo Girardi

The third full-length by Degial, "Predator Reign", due to be out on November 24th 2017 through Sepulchral Voice Records, gets a ferocious cover artwork made by the talented painter Paolo Girardi, already author of many other impressive artworks for extreme metal bands and other blasphemous paintings.

Cover artwork for Södra Sverige 's "Rak Kant"

A first glimpse of the cover artwork designed by Sebastian Murphy for Södra Sverige 's upcoming album "Rak Kant" has been published on the band's official Faceobook page.
The album comes out on May 19th 2017 and after the release party at Debaser Strand in Stockholm on May 25th, there already are some other upcoming live dates:
May 27th, the Hush hush club, Jönköping (SWE)
July 29th, Festival Del Mar , Asperö, Gothenburg (SWE)



Södra Sverige are: Henrik Palm ,Anton Alamaa,Frans Johansson, Henrik Höckert,Mattias Alkberg
Official Facebook page: facebook.com/sodrasverige/.

Procession 's "Doom Decimation" due out in October 2017

Procession 's new cover photo on their official Facebook page hints at the new album "Doom Decimation", providing a quote and informations on its release: the album is scheduled to be out in October 2017 through High Roller Records.


Additionally, their new profile photo contains what is likely to be part of the cover artwork: