Artist were given list of all the restaurants participating to the festival by offering their premises for gallerylike use. I chose Elmu’s Bar at Nosturi for a reason. First and foremost Nosturi is a venue for concerts. Many heavy metal bands have performed there, and quite a few bands which I personally like. So, my theme for the exhibition became very clear in the early stages of designing. I’d paint selected amount of logos from bands that have performed at Nosturi.

I chose three different color themes and painted three paintings for each theme. In addition to that, from each band I chose an album that would suite the chosen color theme and name the painting after that release. I chose various elements from the chosen album covers, which I incorporated for the artwork. For example glimpse of scenery in Amorphis-canvas or flames and color fill of band logo for Entombed-canvas.

Black & white:
“Silent Waters” (Amorphis), “World Demise” (Obituary) and “Raunioissa” (Sotajumala).

Red/orange:
“The Bleeding” (Cannibal Corpse), “V – Hävitetty” (Moonsorrow) and “Big Bang” (Waltari).

Brown/ochre:
“Icaros” (Diablo), “To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth” (Entombed) and (Fear Factory).