Eliran Kantor (born 1984 in Israel) is a Berlin-based, award-winning artist, known in the music world for his paintings, which are often used as album covers. Among his clients are the bands Testament, Helloween, Kreator, My Dying Bride, Soulfly and many others.
Self-taught, Kantor grew up experimenting with different mediums. At the age of 21, Kantor was hired to direct the national campaigns for companies such as Visa and Renault, but a year later he had quit the advertising business to concentrate on his artwork and commissions for album covers, his focus for almost two decades since then.
His work was exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, UK, France, Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands and Romania, as well as in the metal music festivals Wacken, Copenhell and Bloodstock.
