High on Fire Never again Poster

•  12  x 27 “
• 5(?) color screen print on French Black Licorice paper
• 50 AP’s
• Screen printed by Ben LaFond.

Before @highonfireband show at the Patronaat in Haarlem during their 20 sunless years tour, the band & I were brainstorming about posters. I showed them the @wolfbrigadeofficial poster I did for Roadburn 2018 to display what @brlsq is capable of. The band freaked out & made it clear that they would love to use the exact design. I became excited about this idea & proposed to mirror the image and redraw the whole design to give it just that bit of difference. We both agreed to talk to the Wolfbrigade guys first & see if they were into this. At first WB was not into it but when I said I would change the wolf into a hyena (an animal Des & me both love), they gave the green light.
So here it is: 2 of my favorite bands, facing each other & making what was already a bold design, that much stronger.

The art is a nod to the legendary band Discharge, who’s “Never Again” 12” depicted a photo by John Heartfield showing a dove impaled on a bayonet (photo entitled: "The Meaning of Geneva, Where Capital Lives, There Can Be No Peace".)
When I finished the art I realized it also could be seen as a nod to the now famous Metallica shirt design “Metal up your arse”.