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Stephen Wilson
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Full of Gloom. He/They 🏳️‍🌈
Long Island Sewer Ghoul in Minnesota
Illustration/Graphic Design
Art Director for Prepare the Ground
Instagram: @unknown_relic
Email: steve@unknownrelic.com
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In case you needed skulls or other horrific ephemera to decorate your home during these trying times, you can find some art of mine over at INPRNT - www.inprnt.com/gallery/unkn...

#skullart #zombieskulltober #art #darkart #illustration #metalsky #artsky #inprnt
A realistic looking skull, open mouthed, on a dark grey background set within an ornate border. Within the skull’s mouth are various spider web like strands. A red skull, rising out of red smoke. White wisps emanate from the eyeholes, and above the skull is a crescent moon. A drawing of a brown skull, with small flames in the eye sockets, in a golden border. It has some other odd, symmetrical growths forming from the mouth. A skull with its mouth open, lower jaw dissolving into vein like tendrils, and a hole in the forehead with a light emanating from the dark within. It’s set within an intricate red border.
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Woke up from a nap to this from my friend.
An image modeled after the Zohran for NYC Mayor graphics that says “SKULLS FOR UNKNOWN RELIC”
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Thanks! This one was a lot of fun to do. Was thinking about how to merge calligraphy with…bones? Something like that. Haha
A sketch of a skull with a symmetrical bone structure formation beneath it.
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The original version of this thang before I lost my mind and decided to change things #zombieskulltober
A blueish skull, with orange eyes emanating from the eyeholes and a hole in the forehead, lower jaw dissolving into root like tendrils, set within a golden border.
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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THE FINAL SKULL. This took me a while because of this border. I also couldn’t decide between this and another version, so I just made two. The original I’ll post as a reply.

ANYWHO. SKULLS. #zombieskulltober
A skull with its mouth open, lower jaw dissolving into vein like tendrils, and a hole in the forehead with a light emanating from the dark within. It’s set within an intricate red border.
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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SKULL TIME #zombieskulltober
A drawing of a brown skull, with small flames in the eye sockets, in a golden border. It has some other odd, symmetrical growths forming from the mouth.
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Bit more of a straightforward skull today #zombieskulltober
A realistic looking skull, open mouthed, on a dark grey background set within an ornate border. Within the skull’s mouth are various spider web like strands.
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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QRP with your dark art 🖤
In the middle panel are two hands holding a snake dissolving into mist and lights, on either side of this middle panel are close ups of an illustration of dead cala lilies. The silhouette of ancient ruins beneath an Aurora vortex, set in a gold border Ancient columns held together by vines and roots, creating a portal in the middle of space. The silhouette of a winged goat creature flies over a winter forest beneath a blue moon. Set within a gold border, topped with a logo that reads BANSHEE MOON
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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RED SKULL #zombieskulltober
A red skull, rising out of red smoke. White wisps emanate from the eyeholes, and above the skull is a crescent moon.
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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A late post, but… my late involvement in #zombieskulltober continues.
Inside of a golden border, set against a dark grey background is a beige malformed skull with a melting lower jaw and glowing eyes. Above it is a floating bone like crown.
October 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Another one for #zombieskulltober I did quickly last night.
A rotting, hooded portrait of a corpse in a red border. Its eyes are missing, but the sockets are lit by flames. Blood covers much of what’s left of its teeth.
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Per @chris-hitchman.bsky.social’s request, a skull for #zombieskulltober

I think I spent more time on the border.
An illustration of a creepy, vaguely bloody skull, nested within an ornate golden border on a black background.
October 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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GLOOM SKULL - 2025
A drawing of a skull with swirling emanations coming out of it.
October 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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If it were fall year round I'd be outside all the fuckin time.
It is me. Steve.
October 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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This shirt for Jessica Way's Lachrymarium (Barrent Harvest/Worm Ouroboros) is probably one of my favorite things I've made in the last year.

#metalsky #artsky #artwork #photography #graphicdesign #bandmerch
A T-shirt mockup for Lachrymarium. The front of the shirt is a statue of a woman crying on a grave, with an ornate border and logo around it in blue, with sleeve prints that are shown in more detail in the next few slides. Sleeve print of a statue of a penitent woman, hands clasped, staring downward and to the left, above a blue calligraphy design A close up of the front print of the shirt, of the statue of the woman sobbing on a grave, with the band logo and ornate border around the image. A sleeve print of the band name, Lachrymarium, written in ornate block lettering.
October 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Serpentine Offering - 2025
The original artwork for the 2026 edition of Prepare the Ground
#metalsky #artsky #illustration #darkart #occultart #blackmetal #doommetal #deathmetal
An illustration of a serpent, being held aloft, turning into smoke. On either side of the central image is an abstract illustration of dead calla lilies.
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Existence may be insufferable, but it IS humorous.
The image is an e-mail screenshot that reads "Hey Long Island Sewer Ghoul, I’ve seen your esoteric art grime posts on Instagram and had to reach out. I really love how you bring a touch of mystique to your feed. Your unique style is truly captivating!"
October 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Me at PTG next year:
Four melting smiley faces
September 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Prepare the Ground - Three day passes are available over at preparetheground.com

AMENRA • AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD • HABAK • THE KEENING • MALEVICH • MINSK • ORANSSI PAZUZU • PALLBEARER • SVALBARD • UNHOLY ALTAR • WREKMEISTER HARMONIES + MORE

#metalsky #doommetal #ptg
Poster for Year 3 of Prepare the Ground, happening May 29th to May 31st, 2026. The poster features ornate border work on either side of a main image of two hands holding a snake, bursting into flames/coming undone. On each side of the poster, in order, the bands listed are AMENRA, playing two sets, one heavy and one acoustic, AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD playing Secret of Elena’s Tomb and Source Tags and Code, HABAK, THE KEENING, MALEVICH, MINSK, ORANSSI PAZUZU, PALLBEARER performing Foundations of Burden, SVALBARD performing their first and last ever North American show, UNHOLY ALTAR, and WREKMEISTER HARMONIES scoring their original film Flowers in the Spring. At the bottom is a list of sponsors, which includes WOODHOUSE BREWING CO., MYTHOS MANAGEMENT, PRESSTIME, DICE, DUNABLE, BLOOR ANNEX BIA and FACTOR.
September 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Ritual Ascension logo - 2023
#artsky #artwork #illustration #blackmetal #deathmetal #doommetal #metalsky #logoart #logodesign
Stylized calligraphy logo for the band Ritual Ascension over a heavily edited black and red photograph of clouds
September 30, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Elsewhere - 2025

#artsky #artwork #metalsky #darkart #illustration #metalart #shirtart #bandart #art
An illustration of a portal comprised of roots and broken pillars, floating in deep space
September 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Logo for Colombian blackened scramz band, Escara - escarahc.bandcamp.com/album/ente-v...

#art #artwork #artsky #metalsky #metallogo
Logo design for the band Escara. The logo is illustrated to look like a tree with the name hidden within its branches.
September 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Bonus tho is having sick photos of cool stuff
A photo of rock formations in the Badlands in South Dakota.
September 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This month has been kinda wack but at least I have coffee.

PtG Year 3 art is about to be out there on the 30th.

Able to finally breathe, focus on other stuff.

Working on logos, shirts, album covers, secret projects, etc.

I feel pretty good about things, despite all the weirdness.
It's me in my sunn hoodie.
September 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Somber Ruins ‘Neath the Veil - 2025
#art #illustration #blackmetal #metalsky #artsky
The silhouette of crumbling pillars of an ancient structure sit beneath a blue-ish green aurora sky, nested in a golden border
September 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM