Eliran Kantor

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

Eliran Kantor (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]

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)

Book cover illustration credits

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

References

^ "Testament: Title Track Of New Album Available For Free Download". Blabbermouth. 8 April 2008. Archived from the original on 12 April 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2010.
^ "Check Out Eliran Kantor's Awesome Album Art for Soulfly's Archangel". MetalSucks. 5 June 2015.
^ "Nuclear Blast Catalog: Helloween - Skyfall". Nuclear_Blast. 15 February 2010.
^ "MY DYING BRIDE To Release 'The Ghost Of Orion' Album In March; 'Your Broken Shore' Single Available". Blabbermouth. Archived from the original on 2021-01-22.
^ "Eliran Kantor: Complete Discography". Eliran Kantor. 27 July 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
^ "MASACHIST To Release 'Death March Fury' This Month". Archived from the original on 2009-05-02.
^ "Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta discusses the artwork for The Divinity of Purpose". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
^ ^a ^b Franklin, Dan (19 March 2020). Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World. Little, Brown Book Group. ISBN 978-1-4721-3102-7. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
^ "Heavy Music Awards 2023 Winners Announced". Heavy Music Awards. 26 May 2023. Retrieved 10 July 2023.