Abominations Of Desolation - Cover Drawing

[A.O.D.]

Who the hell made the cover drawing for the bootleg LP ??? I am looking for the original artwork !!!

All the versions, printed on LP and some shirts, are distorted...the only real version exists on the tape version from 1988, but it is very small there...

Here is a version, created by myself, including the original demo logo and a scan from the Abominations - Scream Forth Blasphemies bootleg shirt.

Would be real killer to know more about the artist who made that drawing...maybe somebody has a high quality pic from the original painting ???

[Hugo.]

Thats awesome. Ive definitely seen that shirt too.

[Uni777]

Looking at the style of the artwork it is the same hard-on bearer who did the three crosses art. The TKC demo credits say John Rainey.

I think he also did the bleed for the devil T-shirt art a.o.

[Uni777]

From a interview with Ross dolan from immolation:





Have you given any thought to re-releasing STEPPING ON ANGELS?



We have talked about it with Listenable and we still might do it, but it’s not a big priority. It’s more important we get new stuff out there, who cares about the demos.





It also features the original artwork that was meant for your debut album DAWN OF POSSESSION, done by John Rainey. That’s just one of those reasons why it seems to be such a cool thing for the die-hard Immo-fans to find it from places like eBay...



Yeah, but you understand why we never used it (laughs)! I mean look at that and then Andreas Marschall’s cover. John Rainey was a tattoo artist and he did all of Morbid Angel’s tattoo work back in 1988, 1987. And that’s how we got in touch with him. And he did the original cover for ABOMINATIONS OF DESOLATION, their first album cover. We never saw it, but they were like ‘John can do it for you, he won’t charge you a lot and he’ll do a good job.’ And you know, it was good but it was not what we were looking for, we were looking for something more ominous, something very dark and unfortunately that wasn’t quite there. But we kept it, and…now people can see (laughs).

[A.O.D.]

Thank you very much for information !!!

Any Myspace-Page or Website available from him ???

[Uni777]

I think his tattoo shop is called alternative arts..



All the info above took me about ten minutes to find on google...



Google John Rainey+tattoo and you'll find some stuff

[A.O.D.]

Okay, i will try to find him...

By the way: New (old) pics online:



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[jawn galliano]

i never noticed it was the same hard-on bearer, but looking at it now they do appear pretty similar. i also never noticed until now how ugly stepping on angels looks compared to all their other album covers

[zim]

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i never was a fan of this piece, i feel like a lot of ma's t-shirt designs didn't really express them in the right way (to me anyway



i wish they had gotten dan seagrave to a lot of their t-shirts

[zim]

it would still beat most of their shirts