František Štorm

Not to be confused with chemist František Šorm.
František Štorm
Also known as Franta Štorm
Born (1966-07-03) 3 July 1966
Prague, Czechoslovakia
(present-day Czech Republic)
Genres Black metal
Occupation(s) Musician, typographer, writer, teacher, artist, record producer
Instruments Vocals, electric guitar, drums
Years active 1987–present
Labels Osmose Productions, Jihosound Records
Associated acts Master's Hammer, Airbrusher, Mortal Cabinet

František "Franta" Štorm (born 3 July 1966) is a Czech musician, typographer, writer, teacher, artist and record producer, famous for being the vocalist and a founding member of the black metal band Master's Hammer.

Biography

Štorm was born in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia, on 3 July 1966; he is the son of painter Dana Puchnarová, and grandson of architect and heraldist Břetislav Štorm. From 1981 to 1985 he studied at the Secondary School of Arts in Prague, and later went to the AAAD, where he graduated in 1991 under the guidance of Milan Hegar and Jan Solpera.[1] After serving as Solpera's assistant for some years, from 2003 to 2008 Štorm was the headmaster of the AAAD's Department of Typography.[2] In 1993 Štorm founded his own type foundry, Storm Type Foundry. So far he has produced more than sixty font families.

In 2005 Štorm won the Revolver Revue prize. In 2009 his book Eseje o typografii (Essays on Typography) was nominated to the Magnesia Litera award, in the "Journalism" category, but eventually lost to Radka Denemarková's Smrt, nebudeš se báti aneb Příběh Petra Lébla.[3]

Štorm is, outside the area of typography, probably best known as the singer/guitarist of the legendary black metal band Master's Hammer, which was founded in 1987. The band's debut album, Ritual., was released in 1991 and sold over 25,000 copies in the Czech Republic.[4] After the release of the band's third album, Šlágry, in 1995, they broke up, but eventually reunited in 2009. In 2013, Štorm and his bandmates Honza "Silenthell" Přibyl and Tomáš "Necrocock" Kohout founded the record label Jihosound Records, which would release all subsequent Master's Hammer's albums. The band's most recent release was 2014's Vagus Vetus. Štorm was also the vocalist of the band Airbrusher, founded after Master's Hammer's first break-up. The band's only release was a self-titled album in 2007. In 2015 he founded the side project Mortal Cabinet, which released an album, Necrotica, in the same year.[5]

Štorm was also responsible for the photography of Root's 1990 debut album Zjevení.

Discography

With Master's Hammer

For a more comprehensive list, see Master's Hammer#Discography

With Airbrusher

With Mortal Cabinet

References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Štorm". MyFonts. August 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2010.
  2. ↑ "Studio of Typography, AAAD". Archived from the original on 28 June 2010.
  3. ↑ "Typograf František Štorm rozhodně nenapsal žádné Písmo svaté". iDNES.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. Retrieved 20 November 2010.
  4. ↑ Kühnemund, Götz. "Master's Hammer. The Jilemnice Occultist". Rock Hard (73). Retrieved 24 September 2012.
  5. ↑ CD Mortal Cabinet - Necrotica - ZNK

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