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Artists
Ashley Wood. This guy is awesome!
Barry-Windsor Smith. Great artist, definately unique style.
Basil Gogos. A great early horror artist!
Bernie Wrightson. Awesome horror artwork.
Bill Sienkiewicz. A real inovator, brought a fine art surrealist style to comics and graphic novels.
Donato Giancola. This guy does fantastic realistic art.
Frank Frazetta. The master of fantasy artwork, and truly an inspiration.
H.R. Giger. A huge inspiration on underground art, the virtual inventor of biomechanics.
Jeremy Geddes. Nice style, and great guy whose art I was just recently turned onto.
John Harris. One of my biggest influences, this artist’s work has a depth and volume few rarely achieve!
John Totleben. One of my all time favorite artists, and a huge influence on the way I draw.
M. W. Kaluta. Great artist, and nice guy. I’m a big Shadow fan, and this guy does the best rendition of him I’ve ever seen.
Authors
Ayn Rand. The biggest single influence on the way I think. An extremely important philosopher.
Clive Barker. His Books of Blood are amazing-filled with creative and goulish stories-you would make a mistake in not picking them up!
I haven’t read the rest of the Dune novels. I’m not sure I want to, but the first one, by Frank Herbert, is one of the best books I’ve ever read.
George Orwell. If you haven’t read 1984, you should kill yourself now!
H.P. Lovecraft. My single favorite writer. A genius with the word, and true inspiration for generations of horror writers to come.
John Steinbeck may not write the kind of fiction I normally read, but his style of telling a story is a huge influence on the way I write.
Neal Stephenson. I love this guys early cyberpunk work.
Neil Gaiman. i was always a fan of The sandman, but i think he really blossomed when he started writing horror novels.
Groundbreaking, and inpirational author, Philip K Dick.
Richard Matheson. Legendary horror author.
William Gibson. Creater of cyberpunk, and one of my early favorites!
Music Artists
All Else Failed. They only have a Myspace page, but the band is way too good to let pass. One of my all time favorites.
Trajically underrated death metal band BoltThrower, and one of my all time favorites.
Converge. One of the first and best bands doing the chaotic/metal thing.
Corrosion of Conformity. They started out as a mediocre hardcore/thrash band, and became an awesome southern metal band.
Damnation AD. Awesome gloomy metal/hardcore band, I listen to them way too much.
The bluesy singer of the Misfits, Sam Hain, and finally Danzig!
Guitar master Chuck’s brilliant death metal band named simply Death.
Deftones. I don’t care what anyone says, this is an awesome metal band.
Disembodied. One of my all time favorite bands. Heavy as fuck.
Johnny Cash. If you don’t like the man in black, there is something wrong with you.
The best drug-rock band ever, Monster Magnent.
Obituary. Great death metal, sludge band.
Overcast. Awesome and truly unique metalcore band.
If you don’t like Slayer, get the hell off my website!
Social Distortion. Rockabilly, punk, and rock’n'roll, all mixed together into great songs.
Suicidal Tendencies. Back in the day, this band was the shit! I own their first 5 albums!
The Unsane. One of my all-time favorite bands. Violence, noise, sludge, and controlled chaos all melted into one.
Today is the Day. Mind-fuck twisted metal, their album Temple of the Morning Star is a classic.
Turmoil. Great choatic/Deadguy influenced hardcore band.
Other
Tattoo Artists
Aaron Caine. Great artist, tattooist, and machine builder. His art is almost solely responsible for m=getting me into tattooing.
Guy Aitchison is truly an inspiration, always at the cutting edge of the artform.
Steve Moore. This guy is amazing, check him out!
Jay Wheeler. Awesome tattoo artist, great realism.
Monica. My late wife, killed in a hit and run. The site is long since down, but I miss her too much to remove it.
Nice guy, truly original style.
Friend of mine, and awesome horror tattoo artist Paul Acker
The man, the legend, Robert Hernandez.
Good friend of mine, good tattoo artist, and fellow horror fan Ron!
Tom Renshaw. Awesome realistic black and gray.
Not the Motley Crue drummer, but an awesome artist and friend of mine Tommy Lee, so we’ll let it slide. Check out his fine art as well as his tattoos, great stuff.
Tattoo Shops
- Gully Cat Tattoo
My current shop.