Eliran Kantor

Eliran Kantor (Hebrew: אלירן קנטר; born 13 September 1984) is a Berlin-based artist and illustrator known mostly for creating album covers for metal bands such as Testament,^[1] Soulfly,^[2] Helloween^[3] and My Dying Bride.^[4]

Eliran Kantor
אלירן קנטר
Born	13 September 1984
Nationality	Israeli
Occupation(s)	Artist and illustrator
Known for	Creating album covers for metal bands

Album cover illustration credits

Source:^[5]

• Solitary – Trail of Omission (independent release, 2004)
• Armilos – Race of Lies (independent release, 2004)
• Bishop of Hexen – The Nightmarish Compositions (SPV Records/CCP Records, 2005)
• To-Mera – Transcendental (Candlelight Records, 2005)
• Dred – A Pathway to Extinction (independent release, 2005)
• Abused Romance – S/T (independent release, 2005)
• Abed – The Coming of Soon (independent release, 2005)
• Aghora – Formless (American edition) (Dobles Music, 2006)
• Sickening Horror – When Landscapes Bleed Backwards (Neurotic Records, 2006)
• Savannah – S/T (independent release, 2007)
• Mekong Delta – Lurking Fear (AFM Records/Candlelight Records, 2007)
• Dissonant – Perspective (independent release, 2007)
• Denis Vlachiotis – Imperishable Ferocity (independent release, 2007)
• Aghora – Formless (European edition) (Season of Mist Records, 2007)
• Detonation – Emission Phase (Osmose Productions, 2007)
• The Old Dead Tree – The Water Fields (Season of Mist Records, 2007)
• Thrustor – Night of Fire (Black Bastola Records, 2007)
• Mena Brinno – Icy Muse (Dark Balance Records, 2007)
• sHeavy – The Machine That Won the War (Candlelight Records, 2007)
• Liberty N' Justice – 4 All : the best of LNJ (Versallis Records, 2007)
• Sorrow's Joy – Fallow Ground (independent release, 2008)
• Grant O'neil – Head-On (independent release, 2008)
• Abysmalia – Portals to Psychotic Inertia (independent release, 2008)
• Prey For Nothing – Violence Divine (Rusty Cage Records, 2008)
• Robot Lords of Tokyo – II: Whiskey, Blood & Napalm (independent release, 2008)
• Masachist – Death March Fury (TBA, 2008)
• Thy Majestie – Dawn (Dark Balance Records, 2008)
• Xerath – Xerath I (Promotional demo, 2008)
• Desolation – Lexicon V (Shadowflame Records, 2008)
• Deceiver – Thrashing Heavy Metal (Pulverised Records, 2008)
• Ansur – Warring Factions (Candlelight Records/Nocturnal Art Production, 2008)
• Baliset – A Time for Rust (Ret-Con records, 2008)
• To-Mera – Delusions (Candlelight Records, 2008)
• Testament – The Formation of Damnation (Nuclear Blast, 2008)
• Mandala – I (independent release, 2009)
• Immortal Dominion – Primortal (427Records, 2009)
• GWAR – Lust in Space (inside sleeve artwork only) (Metal Blade, 2009)
• The Alien Blakk – Modes of Alienation (Reissue) (independent release, 2009)
• Masachist – Death March Fury (Witching Hour Productions, 2009)^[6]
• Hyperion – Orchestrating The Myth (independent release, 2010)
• The Crinn – Dreaming Saturn (Nuclear Blast, 2010)
• Enders Game – What We've Lost (independent release, 2010)
• Master – The Human Machine (Pulverized Records, 2010)
• Anacrusis – Hindsight: Suffering Hour & Reason Revisited (Anacrusis, 2010)
• Virus – The Agent That Shapes The Desert (Duplicate Records, 2010)
• Mekong Delta – Wanderer on the Edge of Time (AAARRG Records, 2010)
• Sigh – Scenes from Hell (The End Records, 2010)
• Acrania – Unbreakable Fury (independent release, 2010)
• Atheist – Jupiter (Season of Mist 2010)
• Sodom – In War and Pieces (SPV Records, 2010)
• Advent of Bedlam – Flesh Over God (independent release, 2012)
• Sigh – In Somniphobia (Candlelight Records, 2012)
• Hammercult – Anthems Of The Damned (Sonic Attack/SPV Records, 2012)
• Testament – Dark Roots of Earth (Nuclear Blast, 2012)
• Acrania – An Uncertain Collision (independent release, 2012)
• Hatebreed – The Divinity of Purpose (USA – Razor & Tie, Europe – Nuclear Blast Records, 2013)^[7]
• Evile – Skull (Earache Records, 2013)
• Spheron – Ecstasy of God (Apostasy Records, 2013)
• Dark Sermon – In Tongues (eOne Music, 2013)
• Satan – Life Sentence (Listenable Records, 2013)
• Artizan – Ancestral Energy (Pure Steel Records, 2013)
• Ferium – Reflections (independent release, 2014)
• Iced Earth – Plagues of Babylon (Century Media, 2014)
• Orpheus Blade [he] – Wolf's Cry (Pitch Black Records, 2015)
• Artizan – The Furthest Reaches – Limited Edition Version (Pure Steel Records, 2015)
• Acrania – Fearless (independent release, 2015)
• Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake (Nuclear Blast, 2016)
• Winterhorde – Maestro (ViciSolum Productions, 2016)
• Venom Prison – Animus (2016)^[8]
• Thy Art Is Murder – Dear Desolation (Nuclear Blast, 2017)
• Archspire – Relentless Mutation (Seasons of Mist, 2017)
• Black Wizard – Livin' Oblivion (Listenable Records, 2018)
• Bloodbath – The Arrow of Satan is Drawn (2018)^[8]
• Venom Prison - Samsara (Prosthetic Records, 2019)
• Despised Icon – Purgatory (Nuclear Blast, 2019)
• Andy Black – The Ghost of Ohio (Lava/Republic, 2019)
• The Wildhearts – Renaissance Men (Graphite Records, 2019)
• Thy Art Is Murder – Human Target (Nuclear Blast, 2019)
• Aversions Crown – Hell Will Come for Us All (Nuclear Blast, 2020)
• Venom Prison – Primeval (Prosthetic Records, 2020)
• Loudblast – Manifesto (Listenable Records, 2020)
• Gaerea – Limbo (Season of Mist, 2020)
• Incantation – Sect of Vile Divinities (Relapse, 2020)
• Havok – V (Century Media, 2020)
• Hatebreed – Weight of the False Self (Nuclear Blast, 2020)
• Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth & Sacrifice (Nuclear Blast, 2020)
• My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion (Nuclear Blast, 2020)
• Testament – Titans of Creation (Nuclear Blast, 2020)
• Helloween – Helloween (Nuclear Blast, 2021)
• Archspire – Bleed the Future (Season of Mist, 2021)
• Kreator – Hate Über Alles (Nuclear Blast, 2022)
• Malevolence (band) – Malicious Intent (MLVLTD, 2022)^[9]
• Entheos – Time Will Take Us All (Metal Blade Records, 2023)
• The Fall of Creation – Enlightenment (independent release, 2024)

Book cover illustration credits

• Moshe Peled – Back to the Circuit (Kavim Publishing Inc., 2007)