In recent years, Brazilian
designer/musician, Marcelo Vasco has been leaving his visual mark in
the Metal scene thanks to his album covers for Metal heavyweights like Soulfly,
Borknagar and Machine Head. Recently, Vasco's pedigree went to roof thanks to
his latest design: the cover for Slayer's
long-awaited album "Repentless."
The quasi-monochromatic art follows the same blasphemous discourse explored on previous Slayer album sleeves. Below, the artist discusses, exclusively for And Justice For Art, the details behind the creation of this soon-to-be-classic cover.
AJFA: Vocalist/Bassist Tom Araya recently commented that Slayer had a number of submitted ideas for the cover artwork. How did you become involved in the creation of this art and how did you submit your cover concept to the band?
Marcelo Vasco: I have been doing some artwork for Nuclear Blast for a long time. They like my artwork style and know I'm a huge Slayer fan, so they invited me to work on this, proposing some ideas and directions. They said that initially there were other artists also trying but would be nice if I could be involved. And that was what I did…
AJFA: What inspired your
particular idea/concept?
Marcelo Vasco: Everything I created was based
on the album title and also on some ideas that could represent the “old school”
Slayer approach. As a huge fan of the band I just wanted to make it look like
one of the classic covers, Slayer being Slayer!
AJFA: How did you react
when your cover idea was selected?
Marcelo Vasco: I got veeeery excited,
of course. This is something really important to me, not only professionally,
but personally. Slayer is my favorite band of all the times since I was a kid.
AJFA: This artwork really
doesn't add anything new to Slayer's previous blasphemous discourse. However,
it definitely reinforces their unapologetic attitude especially towards
religion. Conceptually, it's a sort of continuation of the themes explored in
most of their previous covers. What's your opinion about this?
Marcelo
Vasco:
As I said… It’s SLAYER being SLAYER. There’s no point to be “new” or try any
different, modern or experimental shit. It’s boring! Metal is becoming so
boring and gay today. I’m an old school fan and my vision was exclusively that
when I was creating the cover. I couldn’t be happier with the final result. And
of course, all requirements and suggestions they gave me during the process
were very solid and made the cover even more special. Looks like a classic
Slayer cover and that’s what I was expecting as the artist and as an old
diehard fan. I’m sure all REAL old school fans of Slayer will enjoy it somehow.
AJFA: Let's talk about the
technical aspects behind the artwork and the making-of process.
Marcelo
Vasco:
90% of my artwork is done digitally through a mixed media process. I work
manipulating images and photos, doing collages, working with textures/brushes
and even freehand drawing a little bit. I’m always trying to give my art a more
organic feeling despite it’s being created in a digital environment. I’m
constantly evolving on this area and this specific cover was made to look like
a real painting, which was a huge challenge to me.
AJFA: Funny that you mention that 'classic painting/canvas'
kind-of-look because that is the next question. How did you do that?
Marcelo
Vasco:
That was one of the biggest concerns about the cover finish… And wasn’t easy to
give it that old painting texture. I had to do many many tests until reaching
the ideal look. I worked with billions of layers and different textures. I even
tried to simulate real strokes and that canvas look as you mentioned. If you
have the chance to check the artwork in a bigger format all this can be
noticed. It looks pretty cool! Well, the classic Slayer covers have this
feeling and the band would like to keep that for the new one.
AJFA: And what about of
the new metallic, armor-like look applied to the Slayer logo?
Marcelo Vasco: Regarding the Slayer
pentagram behind, the idea was to make it as part of the painting and since
it’s a dark red/orange cover with a lot of fire around, their “shield” should
be follow this same aspect… Like metal forged on fire as an armor/sword. That
was the idea.
AJFA: Araya also said that despite being your idea, the band also
made some suggestions. Can you tell me more about the band's participation in
the creation of this design?
Marcelo Vasco: Yes, there were tons of tests before we
have reached the final direction, so it’s difficult to talk about this… It was a
long process and we went through many tiny details. But what I can say is that
the Slayer pentagram as a big halo behind the Jesus was one of the band’s
ideas. Another thing we tried on many different ways was the cover color tone,
and also the size of each element on it, specially the Jesus in the middle.
That damaged old canvas touch was another important concerning that took a long
time to achieve.

AJFA: Most of your
previous artworks have the tendency to be very symmetrical. This new cover
breaks that mold for the most part. Despite having the Christ-like face in the
middle as a focal point, you can look at the artwork and notice many different
things happening. Was that lack of symmetry, a conscious effort?
Marcelo Vasco: That’s true. But it
was not exactly a conscious effort at all. I just thought that a more chaotic
and unsymmetrical illustration would fit better for a Slayer cover. As I
mentioned before, when I started to create the drafts I had some of their
classic covers in my mind, like Reign In Blood, Hell Awaits and South of
Heaven, so maybe it subconsciously guided me a little.
AJFA: By now you've been
designing artworks for bigger bands like Soulfly, Machine Head and now Slayer.
For many artists, it doesn't get any bigger than this. How do you feel about
it? Do you think this artwork could open new professional opportunities for you
in the near future?
Marcelo Vasco: I’m sure it will
open new doors and that’s amazing. I really love to do my work and I’m always
looking for new challenges. I did a bunch of special covers, not only for major
bands though. I really love some artwork I did for unknown and small bands… Art
is always art and that’s what fulfills my heart. Besides music it’s my
main passion! But Slayer is definitely my biggest achievement just because
they’re my favorite band ever. They’re part of my graduation as a Heavy Metal
fan, musician and why not to say, graphic artist. Man, I’m so proud of myself!
Haha... And honestly I still can’t believe I did it. So unreal!
Marcelo Vasco, you did a very good job!! Greetings from longtime Danish Slayer fan :-)
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