Claudio Bergamin is a Chilean/Italian fantasy artist. He creates

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for rock bands and book covers for

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authors.

Artwork

Bergamin's style is realistic fantasy illustration. He has created artwork for a wide number of rock and metal bands from Europe and America such as

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, Chilean pop icons

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, the "metal god"

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, the Dutch musician

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, for whom he created all the artwork of ''

Lost in the New Real ''Lost in the New Real'' (also referred to as ''Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Lost in the New Real'') is the second solo studio album by Dutch songwriter, producer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen, released on 23 April 2012. ...

''. He then created two album covers for the finnish band Battle Beast. Over several years, he has created artwork for the classic Argentinean band

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including the cover of the album Tormenta Eléctrica. In recent years, he has created art inspired by the world of the paranormal, working independently, as well as professionally on book covers for leading

cryptozoology Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness ...

researchers such as Lyle Blackburn and

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. Similarly, he has produced illustrations in close collaboration with public personalities of the paranormal, such as Travis Walton ( Fire in the Sky) and Bob Gimlin (

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). In 2017,

AFM Records AFM Records GmbH is a music label based in Schwalmstadt, Germany. They focus on the heavy metal musical genre, signing bands such as U.D.O., Doro, Lordi, Kotipelto, Masterplan, Nostradameus, Redlight King, and Annihilator. In 2005, Can ...

commissioned the album cover of ''Phoenix'', the return of the Swedish band Nocturnal Rites. Also during 2017, the British heavy metal band

Judas Priest Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in Birmingham in 1969. They have sold over 50 million albums and are frequently ranked as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Judas Priest have also been referred to as one of the p ...

entrusted him with the creation of the cover artwork of their 2018 album ''

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'', released on March 9 of 2018.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergamin, Claudio Living people 1974 births Italian album-cover and concert-poster artists Italian fantasy artists Chilean speculative fiction artists Chilean people of Italian descent