What do you do when the music you want to hear is nowhere to be found? You just play it yourself. That was Alkerdeel's starting point 18 years ago: fusing the icy sound of Norwegian Darkthrone with the heavy doom sound of American Burning Witch. If the gentlemen had any ambition at all, it did not extend beyond their garage door. Five records and several splits via Consouling Sounds and Babylon Doom Cult Records later, Alkerdeel has become an unstoppable force. Their sound has evolved into a dirty mix of all the extreme that can be found in the metal genre. With success: in 2023 they got to close the Dome Hall of the renowned Roadburn festival, and a couple of months later, they surpassed the creaking glaciers at the kvlter than kvlt House of the Holy festival in the Austrian mountains. At the moment (2024) Alkerdeel is writing a new album, live concerts are sparse. Their credo: only live is real - only first take is real.

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