Ed Repka

American graphic artist (born 1960)

Edward J. Repka (born October 22, 1960)^[1] is an American graphic artist, best known for creating album covers for metal bands as well as shirt designs, including those featuring Megadeth's mascot Vic Rattlehead. Repka's portfolio also includes Dark Angel's logo and model designs for the Hellraiser films. He works for the National Entertainment Collectibles Association as their lead painter and head of art direction.

Repka's artwork based on the original Universal Studios film The Wolf Man was used as the cover art for the first issue of horror magazine HorrorHound.

Repka admits that despite being known as the "King of Thrash Metal Art,"^[2] he is not a big fan of the genre. He is more into the punk genre like the Misfits.^[3]

List of works

3 Inches of Blood – Advance & Vanquish
Aggression (Spanish band) – Moshpirit
After All – Dawn of the Enforcer
After All – Rejection Overruled
After All – Waves of Annihilation
Abiotx – Straight to Hell
Ancesthor – Beneath the Mask
Atheist – Piece of Time
Austrian Death Machine – Total Brutal
Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal
Austrian Death Machine – Triple Brutal
The Black Zombie Procession – Mess with the Best, Die Like the Rest
Besieged – Victims Beyond All Help
Bloodfreak – Scared Stiff
Brainwreck – Evil Waysl
Burning Nitrum – Molotov
Chorpuss – "Witch of the Moor"
Circle Jerks – VI
Condition Critical – Operational Hazard
Dark Angel – Darkness Descends
Dark Angel – Leave Scars
Deal With it – End Time Prophecies
Death – Scream Bloody Gore
Death – Leprosy
Death – Spiritual Healing
Defiance – Product of Society
Defiance – Beyond Recognition
Dismantle – Satanic Force
DSA Commando – Sputo
Eliminator – Breaking the Wheel
Elm Street – Barbed Wire Metal
Evil Survives – Judas Priest Live
Evil Survives – Powerkiller
Exeloume – Fairytale of Perversion
Exeloume – Return of the Nephilim
Evildead – Annihilation of Civilization
Evildead – The Underworld
Evildead – United States of Anarchy
Faith Or Fear – Instruments of Death
Fallen Man – Mercenary
Frade Negro – Black Souls in the Abyss (Brazilian band)
Frade Negro – The Attack of the Damned
Flesher – Tales Of Grotesque Demise
Gruesome – Dimensions of Horror
Gruesome – Savage Land
Gruesome – Twisted Prayers
Guillotine – Blood Money
Hell's Domain – Hell's Domain
Hexen – State of Insurgency
Hirax – El Rostro de la Muerte
Holy Grail – Improper Burial
Hyades – And the Worst Is Yet to Come
Hyades – The Roots of Trash
Infinite Translation – Impulsive Attack
Infinite Translation – Masked Reality
Killjoy – Compelled by Fear
Korrosive - Toxic Apokalypse
Lost Society – Fast Loud Death
Ludichrist – Immaculate Deception
Mad Maze – Frames of Alienation
Massacre – From Beyond
Massacre – Inhuman Condition
Megadeth – "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"
Megadeth – Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
Megadeth – "Hangar 18"
Megadeth – "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
Megadeth – Rusted Pieces
Merciless Death – Evil in the Night
Morbid Saint – Swallowed by Hell
Municipal Waste – Hazardous Mutation
Miss Djax – Inferno
Miss Djax – Stereo Destroyer
Napalm – Cruel Tranquility
Necro – The Pre-Fix for Death
NOFX – S&M Airlines
Nuclear Assault – Game Over
Pánico Al Miedo – Pánico Al Miedo
Pitiful Reign – Visual Violence
Possessed – Beyond the Gates
Ravage – The End of Tomorrow
Red Razor – Beer Revolution
Ruff Neck – Ruff Treatment
Sanctuary – Refuge Denied
Sanctuary – Inception
Skull Vomit – Deadly Observation
S.O.B. – Gate of Doom
Solstice – Solstice
Steelwing – Lord of the Wasteland
Suicidal Angels – Dead Again
Suicidal Angels – Bloodbath
Suicidal Angels – Divide and Conquer
Suicidal Angels – "Division of Blood"
Suicide Watch – Global Warning
Toxic Holocaust – Hell on Earth
Toxik – World Circus
Toxik – Think This
Ultra Violence – Deflect the Flow
Ultra-Violence – Privilege to Overcome
Uncle Slam – Will Work for Food
Uncle Slam – When God Dies
Untimely Demise – Black Widow
Untimely Demise – City of Steel
Untimely Demise – Full Speed Metal
Untimely Demise – No Promise of Tomorrow
Untimely Demise – Systematic Eradication
Various Artists – Butchering the Beatles – A Headbashing Tribute
Various Artists – Thrash or Be Thrashed – An International Tribute to Thrash
Venom – Here Lies
Vio-lence – Eternal Nightmare
Violent Playground – Thrashin Blues
Whiplash – Unborn Again
Wrathchild America – Climbin' the Walls
Wild – Calles de Fuego (Spanish band)
Wild – La Nueva Orden
Zero Down – Good Times... At the Gates of Hell
Zero Down – "No Limit to the Evil"
Zombis Do Espaco – Em uma missão de Satanas
Zumbis Do Espaco – Nos Viemos Em Paz

References

^ "Ed Repka Illustration - About". Facebook. October 22, 1970. Retrieved July 29, 2014.
^ Repka, Ed. "Ed Repka: King of Thrash Metal Art". DeviantArt. Retrieved April 6, 2015.
^ metalrulesradio. "ED REPKA Legendary Thrash Metal Cover Artist interview METAL RULES! TV Chiller Theatre 2012". YouTube. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2015.