A dark and evil mood, an infernal drive, and incendiary vocals on top is how MORDKAUL likes to forge their killer songs. The members of this Belgium based band share a mutual passion for melodic death metal, and with the splitting up of their former bands Diablo Blvd and Hell City, they finalized the tracks Tim Bekaert started writing a few years back.
In May 2020, MORDKAUL’s debut album Dress Code: Blood was recorded by Tommy Goffin (Hell City) vocals, Tim Bekaert (Diablo Blvd, A Brand), Vincent Noben (Hell City) guitars and Adrian Erlandsson (At The Gates, ex-Cradle Of Filth, The Haunted,...) drums. Mixing and mastering of the album was done by Dan Swano (Opeth, Bloodbath…). Soon after the recording, Jan Rammeloo
(Bliksem, Furia, Your Highness) and Tony Van den Eynde (Leng Tch’e, Saille) joined forces. Dress Code: Blood was released in January 2021 on Wormholedeath Records.
After the release several successful and sold out shows where played to promote the debut album, ending in the summer of ‘22 with a killer and critically acclaimed performance at Alcatraz Festival (BE). After this, Mordkaul went back to the studio to record their follow up album: Feeding The Machine.
Where Dress Code: Blood was heavily inspired by the iconic Swedish death metal bands from the 90's, Feeding The Machine goes a step further than that. With wider influences of iconic 90's death metal acts like Morbid Angel, Death, Amon Amarth and Hypocrisy, Feeding The Machine hits even harder.
To get the most out of the individual songs and promoting them to their best extent, Feeding The Machine is released in two parts. The first part was recorded at the end of Summer ‘22 at Project Zero studio by Yarne Heylen (Carnation) and mixing and mastering was again done by Dan Swanö. Part 2 and the rest of the album was recorded in summer of 2023 in the legendary Galaxy Studios in Belgium (In Flames, Manowar, Rammstein…). The full album “Feeding The Machine” was released worldwide on September 13th 2024 by Massacre Records.