ProgArt Media - Artwork by Mattias Norén

05/06/2026

Happy releaseday "Architects of the a weave".

Na**lm records haven't managed to deliver the double vinyl to me yet and that was the one I was most curious to see. If you have recieved it already, is the booklet looking OK?

Anyway, here's a collection of the paintings I did for the album and also the four single designs.

Happy to read all the positive comments about the album. I think it's one their finest myself. I think only SDT och ISFT can compete with it in my ears.

Tonight I will start painting a new cover for another swedish band. We'll see how it goes. Wish me luck :-)

Evergrey

30/05/2026

Many hours of fun work finally came to a sort of finish line today when I was in Gothenburg at Evergrey's release party and got to see the creation for real for the first time. Always a great feeling.

Great to meet Tom, Rikard and Johan again, and meet Stephen for the first time. They played a few songs acoustically and we drank some beer and generally had a good time. A great afternoon

Tom S Englund Johan Niemann Rikard Zander

28/05/2026

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15/05/2026

Me and Nisse creating some magic 🤩

12/05/2026

A Mythmaker's Demise. Out July 31, 2026 via Frontiers.

LALU: Vivien Lalu · Joop Wolters · Simon Phillips · Martin LeMar

Artwork: Mattias Norén

09/05/2026

3...
I.GUIDE.YOU.THROUGH.THE.SHADOWS

08/05/2026

Step by step. This is a special one I'm really proud of.

4...
as my dreams_go.on_and.on

07/05/2026

What's happening here? 😱

5...
unr4veling.these.mysteries_

24/04/2026

25 years and 8 Evergrey album covers. The save date on the file for In search of truth is July 5 2001. So not more than a month until it was 25 years since I created my first Evergrey artwork.

The save date for the latest Evergrey cover was december 15, 2025, so not much more than 4 months since I created MY BEST artwork for the band :-)

And it's such a killer album. Love every second of it.

Evergrey Evergrey Brazil Tom Englund Johan Niemann Rikard Zander Simen Sandnes Vikram A. Shankar

13/02/2026

Would anyone be interested in an in depth article about how the "Architect of a new weave" artwork for Evergrey was created?