The Records and Art Behind the Designs
Every design in our shop starts with something from the Agoraphobic Nosebleed world. Some carry an album cover; others take the horror-comic style our merch is known for. Here's where they come from.
What is the Agorapocalypse design?
The top of the 2009 album cover. Agorapocalypse was our fourth album, released on Relapse Records, with cover art by German illustrator Florian Bertmer. Our design keeps the skull-crowned figure, the coiled ring, the demon heads and the green lightning, with the album title along the bottom.
Where does Gnaw come from?
The Arc EP from 2016. Arc was our turn into sludge and doom, the first of a planned series of EPs, each one built around a band member. Its three songs are "Not a Daughter", "Deathbed" and "Gnaw". Our Gnaw design is in one muddy gold, a nod to the gold lettering on the Arc cover.
Why so much horror?
It fits the noise. Grindcore is loud, fast and a little absurd, and so is the art around it. That's why the shop has a masked killer with a chainsaw, a burning coffin carried by skeletons, a goat head full of knives and a child reading a book of tentacles. They're played for shock and dark laughs, like a midnight movie.
What about the black-and-white pieces?
Xerox style. The Spider and AGORAPHOBICNB Portrait designs use hard black and white, like a photocopied flyer. Simple, rough and very grind.
Just the logo, please
Skulls keeps it to the dripping wordmark between two skulls. It's the easiest piece to wear anywhere.