Birkental

Contact: birkentalofficial@gmail.com The band does not use normal guitars, the lead instrument is a bass guitar. Founder Raug ( Dennis ) is the ex bass player of Cryptic Crown and founded Birkental as a one-man black metal project without the usual guitars only with a bass guitar in late 2021 when Cryptic Crown split up while the Corona pandemic. In 2022 Zlam ( Jocelyn ) ex drummer from Cryptic Crown joined the band and took over drums and keyboards while Raug ( Dennis ) took over bass, vocals and writing the songs. In 2023 their first album "Peccatum Mortiferum" was finished and Birkental started searching for a label to release the album. In early 2024 Void Wanderer Productions agreed to release the album on a music cassette limited to 50 copies on 13th December 2024. On 18th October 2024 the first Single "Superbia" was released to promote the album release. The digital releases are done through DemonOLogical Records, the record label is run by Raug ( Dennis ) and it is their first release. The name Birkental is german for "birch valley" and it is a wooded valley in Velbert where Raug ( Dennis ) lives. When Thrash Metal was on the rise in the Ruhrgebiet and Velbert, bands like Violent Force and the Heavy Metal Fanclub Velbert organised metal parties in this valley.