Behind The Artworks: Deathgoat - Dragged Into Realms Below (2025)

N: After the first album, I had an idea that the second album must be more gloomy and dark than the first one, and this naturally applies to the artwork as well. I had an idea of a medieval funeral of a small child and a grieving mother who curses god for taking away her child, while at the same time, the child is pulled into the underworld. I do draw a little bit myself, so I did a sketch of the idea, and the other guys gave the green light to the idea.

I’m a big fan of old, late medieval era european woodcut art and the style of drawings that present the ”dance macabre”, plague times, death in everyday life etc… So, I started searching for artists and from some Facebook group I got in contact with Bram Bruyneel from Belgium who had already several years of experience in this style of drawings for other bands. But since we had things going very slowly in the band and recording process, I reached back to Bram only about a year later. Luckily, Bram had some time and was interested in proceeding with the work. In a very unorthodox way, the artwork was actually finished before we had started the recording,s so I believe it was also actually a key factor that pushed some more grim sound to the album. Bram got quite free hands and we are very happy with the outcome. Hopefully, we can work with him again in the future as well. Thanks to our label Xtreem Music, his art is now spreading like a plague as well!