Cam is a professional artist and takes his work very seriously. He does do comissions for bands, movies, clothing lines, books, and more. He works with various mediums. Anything from oil paint to acrylic, wax, ink, clay, sharpie, plaster, and pretty much anything he "can splatter".
If anyone has a Cam site and you'd like it put up here, just message us...We won't bite...hard ;)
Music
The Dirty Heads video for Stand Tall that Cam painted the boat for...
Heroes
The lovely Kim from Your Future is Set Forever made the first three banners to help support Cam. The rest of them were made by the amazing Emma Ga(y)tes. Feel free to take them and post them everywhere!
This site is dedicated to the amazingly talented artist Cam Rackam. He's done artwork for bands such as Slayer, Avenged Sevenfold, and The Confession. His paintings are absolutely beautiful and his deserves to be recognized for his talents.
Clips of Cam on Forbidden Radio (10-16-2007)
This is the bio directly from his website:
Cam Rackam was born in Huntington Beach, California. He grew up in the 90s punk rock/hardcore scene and has lived in almost every city in orange county. He attended high school with musicians like Throwdown, The Dirty Heads, HB Surround Sound, 18 Visions, Atreyu, Bleeding Through and Avenged Sevenfold. There he made his first album cover for M Shadows high school band Successful Failure. A troubled youth, Cam quietly re found his passion for the art. In 2001 he locked himself in his one-car garage for 6 months. "I had no electricity, so I worked by candle light. Just sealed myself off from the world, lite 100 candles, crank some metal, and paint the slide show to the Apocalypse. And I wonder why the neighbors didn't like me." When he emerged he brought his demons with him, on canvas. Six years later he hasn't slowed down.
In 2003 his first commercial release for Avenged Sevenfold was the Heads Off painting. "It was a birthday gift for Matt. I didn't realize Id be seeing it at every record store across the country." From there he went on to work on their City of Evil record, The Confession's Requiem, and their new A7X self titled release, including countless merchandise applications. Represented by Freeze Management(The Used, Head Automatica), Cam appeared on the All Excess DVD discussing the early roots of the band. He has his own merchandise company. He is the chief designer at Darkride Skateboards. A contributor to the yellow ribbon fund. And still finds time to help small bands out.
C. Rackam can be found at his art shows, which are more like party events, buying his fans drinks and pressing the flesh. "I only show with Hamhawk. Can't get shit done without him. We share the same vision that art shows are places for real people to have fun and enjoy art."
Cam on All Excess (He's in the middle of the clip, right after Val)
This is what The Local had to say about Cam:
"His art, an apocalyptic style that captures the ghosts of Hieronymus Bosch. Monsters and demons protrude the earth through his paint strokes. His fine detail displays a colorful hallucination of his dreams laid out on canvus.
Rackam has worked in the past with bands such as Avenged Sevenfold and has just finished a project with The Confession. His loyalty to art is that of a classical and modern art that can create anything from a fullscale composition of oil painting to album covers to fonts."
Like the Zodiac killer hunts teenagers, Cam Rackam’s scorched canvas is like a punch to the head. Screaming Bosch like demons, and apocalyptic visions of the afterlife, walking though his gallery is like being plunged into hell. Sixty’s horror, medieval torture, and free masonry cake the walls like a crime scene. His content has captured the eyes of the music industry and most of his commissions stem from rock bands. “Rock Music Art is a genre I’m most comfortable with. Art for real people, music fans like myself.” His art shows are here and gone in a matter of a few days, “Its like a big party celebrating artists, who celebrate death.” Hand made merchandise, prints and even masterworks are given away at the shows. Blending sound into art, Cam creates the visual aids for bands like The Confession, Avenged Sevenfold, Slayer, Unwritten Law, and As I Lay Dying.
-Editor in chief Justin DeBernardo, The Local ..
Cam talking about the Heads Off painting on All Excess
The Orange Co. Paparazzi posted an article plus a ton of photos from The South of Heaven artshow HERE. Some of which are up in our gallery already. Go check them out.
You can hear Cam and Jeremy Cross promoting the Artcore show on SG Radio HERE. Just skip the first 3/4 of it. They are on at the very end. 11/10/08
You can hear Cam and Jeremy Cross on the show on SG Radio once again HERE. 11/24/08
LA Weekly posted some pictures from the Artcore show HERE.
Time lapse of live paining by Cam at Cinespace, music by Perish
Cam's live painting during a Devil's Orchestra set at Cinespace
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PS: All artwork is copyrighted to Cam Rackam.
All pictures are property of the individuals in them.
All pretty flashy banners copywritten to Please don't steal any artwork, pictures, or banners. Cam and Emma work hard on their art and such. And taking pictures without permission is just plain creepy.
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