Dilyana Delcheva won the contest for the cover design of the upcoming Lot Lorien album

Dilyana Delcheva is the winner of the Lot Lorien’s new album cover design competition

Dilyana Delcheva, hailing from Sofia, is the winner of the design competition for a cover of the art band Lot Lorien’s new album. “After voting internally, we approved unanimously the young artist’s project,” announced the band members. Venelin Milanov from Varna and the collaborative effort of Petko Ivanov from Stara Zagora and Slavina Stoyanova from General Toshevo shared the second place, with an equal number of votes.

“We would like to thank all participants for sending their ideas in. We deeply appreciate the time and effort that they have dedicated on this project,” shared the musicians. They emphasized that Dilyana Delcheva’s cover version represents most closely their own external image of the album, and reflects almost completely the emotions in its compositions.

The winner considers painting, computer animation and photography as much a hobby as a profession. She has a keen interest in fantasy and sci-fi genre books and movies, digital art, rock and metal, and contributes as a journalist to a website devoted to “heavy” music. Dilyana’s impressive artistic background includes a Graphical Design major at “St. Luke's” National High School for Applied Arts, followed by an Applied Arts degree from the New Bulgarian University.

In 2009, Dilyana won the second prize in the cover design competition for an album of the Finnish band Sonata Arctica, and then in 2011, the first prize for the album cover design for the Finnish band Dreamtale. She has done art work for the bands Absinthium (Italy), Inner Terror (USA), Dotma (Finland), Gothmog (Spain), Celesty (Finland), Serenity (Austria), Midnight Madness (Italy), and Black Knight Symfonia (Monaco), among others. Two of her projects were printed on T-shirts for the band Leviathan (Germany). She is currently doing design work on the latest album of Amaseffer (Israel), whose lead singer, Mats Leven, is the former frontman of the band Therion.

An official promotion about the completed vision of the album will air in the morning segment of the Bulgarian National TV. Stay tuned for more information…