Artist Feature: Swedish Duo HannesJohannes

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Together, Hannes Elltorp and Johannes Helgelin, make up the Swedish directing duo HannesJohannes.

Dabbling in illustration, animation, and film, the pair create wacky and psychedelic music videos. Their style is inspired by 90's cartoons, like "Beavis and Butthead," and "Ren and Stimpy," with an emphasis on the weird and grotesque.

Pizza-eating skeletons, guitar-thrashing demons, fish-headed babes, and a machine-gun-wielding Elvis all make appearances. If you're a fan of the American animated series, "Superjail!" or "Metalocalypse," then you will certainly appreciate HannesJohannes' aesthetic.

Each frame of their videos is hand-drawn then scanned into Photoshop, where it is colored and the final products are edited together.

Watch their video for Brooklyn band Team's Spirit's catchy song, "MRDR It's Ok," below.

Team Spirit - MRDR It's Ok [Official] from HannesJohannes on Vimeo.

You can watch more of their videos here: http://vimeo.com/hannesjohannes
Visit their website for more information:http://www.hannesjohannes.com/
To hear more of Team Spirit's music, visit their bandcamp: http://teamspirit.bandcamp.com/