Joachim Luetke is a German cross-media artist (born 1957) who makes album art feel like a miniature movie poster. I like that he actually trained in the late 1970s - graphic design in Switzerland, then Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts under Rudolf Hausner - so the craft is real, not just screen-glow. His work is often compared to H. R. Giger . In metal, his longest run is with Dimmu Borgir (2003-2010: "Death Cult Armageddon", "In Sorte Diaboli", "Abrahadabra"); he also rebooted Kreator's look (2005-2009: "Enemy of God", "Hordes of Chaos"), and stamped Arch Enemy's "Doomsday Machine" (2005) and Meshuggah's "obZen" (2008). He even published "Posthuman" (2000), which tells you he thinks beyond the sleeve.

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