The cover illustration is by John Sibbick. Earache Records needed to re-design Bolt Thrower's 'Realm of Chaos' CD artwork as the rights to the previous version's artwork had expired. John Sibbick, the original artist of the album was asked to create a new illustration for the cover, once this was completed I was brought in to work on the booklet design.

The brief was basically to use the cover artwork wherever I could within the booklet layout and create additional artwork where needed.My contribution to the cover was limited to redrawing a new Realm of Chaos logo basing it on the original design, the inside panel, (left), was a photo montage of archive photos of the band with additional textures added in Photoshop.

Two of the internal spreads and the CD body utilized the cover artwork, whilst a third spread, (below), used an archive photo of the band, which was retouched in Photoshop to give it a similar feel to the cover artwork, (redrawn sky explosions etc.)

The outer CD tray also used part of the cover artwork with a version of the eyespike emblem Bolt Thrower often used.

For the inside of the CD tray, (bottom right - click to enlarge), I created a new illustration, this was placed on an explosive background, taken from the cover artwork.

(artwork ©Earache Records)