Caelan Stokkermans

Freelance Artist

Art Director and Senior Product Management at Unique Leader Records

About

I am an illustrator and graphic designer of eight years based out of Cleveland, Ohio. I started out as a freelance artist in the music industry working with metal bands illustrating logos, artwork and merchandise. Since then I have  had the opportunity to work with hundreds of talented bands, record labels and companies. I have also had the opportunity to work in other fields such as fantasy illustration, book covers and concept artwork.  I am currently working at Unique Leader Records as Art Director and Senior Product Management. 

I am a self-taught artist with a style inspired by the old masters, baroque, symbolist, romanticism and dark art. My technique is the same as traditional oil painting done using a digital medium. My work is also strongly influenced by the occult, mythology and theology with a modern take. My creative mediums include Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Wacom Cintiq 16' HD and a Canon EOS 80D. 

Art being my main passion,  I also enjoy photography, video games, Magic The Gathering, reading and traveling. 


All online articles featuring my work

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DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS



All physical media featuring my work

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PHYSICAL PUBLICATIONS


Masterpieces 2018

Published 2019 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 56.

​Artwork featured: Soreption "Monument of the End" commissioned by Sumerian Records

Arte Arcana: Lucifero

Published 2019 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 80-81.

​Artwork featured: Swallowed Alive (Exclusive), Diabolus and commissioned artwork for Dark Usurper.

Arte Arcana

Published 2018 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 74-76.

​Artwork featured: Engineers, Megalith, Originator, Hedron and commissioned artworks for Bogwraith and Slave I.

Ripping Tongues

Published 2022 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 364.

Metal For Free Speech artist interview.

Heavy Music Artwork

Masterpieces 2020 (Special Edition)

Published 2021 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 108, 141 & 218-220.

​Artwork featured: The Acacia Strain || Rise Records

Crafting The Conspiracy || Innerstrength Records

Fires In The Distance || Prosthetic Records

Masterpieces 2019 Highlight Artist Award

Published 2020 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 2-3 & 28-33.

​Artwork featured: And Hell Followed With, Chimerical Reality || Hollowed Records

Lorna Shore, Immortal || Century Media

Waking Mayhem, Attrition || Independent Release

Vesperian Sorrow, Regenesis Creation || Black Lion Records

Vale of Pnath, Accursed || Willowtip Records

Horned (Metalhead Book Of Goats

Published 2022 by Heavy Music Artwork. Back Cover + Pages 14, 16

Artwork featured: Abigail Williams, Shrine Of Malice, Crown Magnetar goat illustrations.

Hexed (Metalhead Book Of Witches)

Published 2023 by Heavy Music Artwork. Pages 54, 74-75.

Artwork featured: Crown Magnetar “Alone In Death,” Metallium, Snake Father.

Snakes

Published 2023 by Heavy Music Artwork.

Artwork featured: Interloper “Search Party”


PODCASTS

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Video + audio interviews



Every band, client and label I have worked with since starting in 2015

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CLIENT LIST


Unique Leader Records

Rise Records

Metal Blade Records

Century Media Records

Nuclear Blast Records

Sumerian Records

Eone

MNRK Heavy

Wax Vessel

The Artisan Era

Sharptone Records

Season Of Mist

Stay Sick Recordings

Black Lion Records

Secret Swarm

Prosthetic Records

Vicious Instinct Records

Willowtip Records

Transcending Records

RealityFade Records

Deadboy Records

Indiemerch

Rising Merch

Angelmaker

Crown Magentar

Mental Cruelty

Rivers of Nihil

Fallujah

Enterprise Earth

Born Of Osiris

Oceano

The Faceless

The Zenith Passage

Humanity’s Last Breath

Abigail Williams

Cryptopsy

Abiotic

I Am

Worm Shepherd

Shadow Of Intent

She Must Burn

The Last Ten Seconds Of Life

Carcosa

Allegaeon

A Wake In Providence

Soreption

Voyager

Abysses

Adversial Machines

Bakasura

Closed Casket

Coven

Cursed Creation

Deathcult

Disembodied Tyrant

Frontiers

Fire At Dawn

Fear The Unknown

Freely Spoken

Gravebirth

Hollow Words

Last Word

Lynchpin

Nihilitus

Obelisk Of Obsession

Pound

Une Misere

Venom & Spirit

Your Finest Hour

Six Temples

Sulfuric Baptism

The Acacia Strain

Lorna Shore

Cattle Decapitation

Bring Me The Horizon

Rose In Good Faith

Suicide Silence

Entheos

Currents

Heaven Shall Burn

Impending Doom

Misery Index

A Night In Texas

Distant

Signs Of The Swarm

Within Destruction

Thy Art Is Murder

Ingested

Fit For An Autopsy

And Hell Followed With

Vale Of Pnath

Face Yourself

Mire Lore

Molotov Solution

Ladee Danger

Canticles

A Night In The Abyss

The Voynich Code

Anakim

Art Of Attrition

Befallen

Crafting The Conspiracy

Emberthrone

Anahata

Archaic Decapitator

Art of Attrition

Artificial Lifeforce

Blighted Eye

Blood Of Gods Zine

Bury The Rod

Catacylsian

Cogitations

Crusadist

Deathmask

Deformatory

Dematerialize

Devady Bladez

xGorex

Drown In The Abyss

Embers Of Helix

Existentialist

Extinction Coefficient

Flood

Glass Mimic

Grofbol

Imperishable

Aberration Within Arcadia

Ambrosia Scheme

Apothus

Aurglass

Boundaries

Cosmigod

Depraved Will

Djent Space

Elaris

Equipoise

Euclid

The Kraken’s Den

Till The Dirt

Triune

The Worst Case Scenario

Ophidian I

Volatile Ways

Interloper

Shush

To The Grave

Organectomy

Peeling Flesh

Brand Of Sacrifice

Carrion Vael

First Fragment

Hideous Divinity

Mental Cruelty

Kraanium

Jungle Rot

Osiah

Viscera

Atoll

Bonecarver

Extermination Dismemberment

Wretched Tongues

Disciples of Exile

Display Of Decay

Echoes Of Misanthropy

Emerald City

Exocrine

Extinction Coefficient

Eyes Of Perdition

Fall Of Scylla

Flare

Follow The Awakened

Half Heard Voices

Heartwell

Heathercrest

Impalers

In Asymmetry

In Faith We Fear

IO

Ivyllines

Lacerate Thy Maker

Martial Law

Miradjex

Nahtram

Ophidian Memory

Path Of Giants

Polyphemus

Raise The Death Toll

Rat King

Renatus

Sable Hill

Scorn Haven

Shores Of Ithaka

Singularity

Soul Debt

Spectrum Of Delusion

Sterilizing The Deceased

Sun Of Colossus

Swallowed Alive

Synestia

The Holy Grail

Tongues Of Ineloquence

Vesperian Sorrow

Via Proxima

Whisteria Cottage

Winter’s Gate

Within The Void

Kaom

Kingdom Of Shadows

Mana Tomb

Marrowwomb

Metal Threads Merch

Molotov Solution

Null

Sentinels

Acranius

Inferi

The Breathing Process

Arkaik

Snake Father

The Dark Alamorte

Gamma Sector

Pincore

Xenosis

Yharnam

A Malicious Plague

Apotheon

Anhedonia

Awaiting The Lullaby

Beyond The Void

Bogwraith

Craving For Chaos

Dark Usurper

Decimated Humans

Depths

Desolate Earth

Dismantle The Architect

Divitius

Earth Eater

Ezerath

Fires In The Distance

Iron Code

Metalium

Mortal Thrall

My Own Will

Nightmare Canvas

Oath To Order

Omophagia

One Vote For Violence

Pandorium

Portals

Raze The Void

Reliqa

Reversionist

Slave I

So This Is Suffering

Splatterpuss

Svn, Seeker

Swarmageddon

Tau Zero

The Eating Cave

The Blessing Of This Curse

Trigger

Trinity Site

Truent

Visceral hatred

Vomit The Soul

Waking Mayhem

When Plagues Collide

Putrefaction Management

Sea Of Treachery

The Archaic Epidemic

The Gloom In The Corner

The Goatjuring

NYHC Tattoo