{"id":58659,"date":"2023-02-26T03:31:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=58659"},"modified":"2023-02-24T23:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T23:35:28","slug":"miller-meets-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/miller-meets-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Miller meets metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ahah&#8221;, I thought, &#8220;this new metal album&#8217;s cover artwork is a superb emulation of &#8216;Ian Miller channelling Lovecraft'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/covermet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/covermet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"528\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/covermet.jpg 700w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/covermet-528x528.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out, it&#8217;s actually by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ianmiller.studio\/ulthar\/\">Ian Miller himself<\/a>. His blog has the full cosmic vista&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/millerfull.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/millerfull.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/millerfull.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/millerfull-528x298.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/millerfull-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Encyclopaedia Metallum<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metal-archives.com\/reviews\/Ulthar\/Anthronomicon\/1098890\/ArnoldHablewitz\/238395\">reviews the album <em>Anthronomicon<\/em><\/a>, by the band Ulthar, and immediately finds&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re off to battle right away against the Lovecraftian hordes!&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After that, it&#8217;s apparently much of the same old-school metal pace right through to the end. Delivered with all of the skill of a leading Californian metal band on their third album.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out this is not the first cover Miller&#8217;s done for them. A little more digging discovers their two earlier albums with Miller covers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/12inch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/12inch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"528\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/12inch.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/12inch-528x528.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/12inch-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ultharprov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ultharprov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"429\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ultharprov.jpg 545w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ultharprov-528x429.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ulthar-album1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ulthar-album1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"364\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ulthar-album1.jpg 1074w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ulthar-album1-528x364.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ulthar-album1-768x529.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The orange one reminding me instantly of the art for one of Miller&#8217;s classic 1970s paperback covers for Panther. Is this the picture that was lost and had to be recreated? Anyway, if you don&#8217;t fancy framing the album cover(s) then this one can be had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisoneldred.com\/ian-miller\/fine-art-prints-1\/fine-art-giclee-prints-3\/2125-at-the-mountains-of-madness-no-3\/\">as a fine art print<\/a> direct from Miller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ahah&#8221;, I thought, &#8220;this new metal album&#8217;s cover artwork is a superb emulation of &#8216;Ian Miller channelling Lovecraft&#8217;&#8221;. Turns out, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2023\/02\/26\/miller-meets-metal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58659"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58690,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58659\/revisions\/58690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}