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We have two videos from last week’s gig for you. Thumbs up go out to Erhan and Ramona for filming and uploading their footage. Also check out these photos from Peter (MetalRaid). Thank you Peter! Misha Listening to Celestial Season…

So today it is exactly one year ago that we released ‘De zwaarte van het doorstane‘ at the Dutch Doom Days IX festival. The album has gotten only positive reviews and has sold a nice amount of copies. We would…

Hey there! Finally back with some news. We’re doing a gig again. We will play at the Brainstorm festival in Apeldoorn on Saturday the 5th of November. That’s one day short of the first anniversary of our debut album. And…

Although there isn’t much group activity to report on during the summer months, what with band members away on holiday and the rehearsal space closing for a month, we want to keep the blog updated anyway so here’s an idea…

The lyrics mentioned in the last post are finished. For now. The song’s almost done too, but it needs one more part to give it more edge. I did a recording of the vocals here at home to hear what…

Good news: our debut album is finally available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/de-zwaarte-van-het-doorstane/id445699104 Last Friday we had another rehearsal session in Tilburg, our last before the summer holiday. Ward brought along his friend Merel, who plays violin very well. We jammed a…

Last Friday we had the first rehearsal with our new bass player Harm. Our line up is complete again, at last! Harm’s the youngest guy of Akelei, he’s 20, but he has been playing bass for some years now and…

  We zoeken een bassist(e). Josha krijgt het te druk met Carceri en een nieuwe Delftse band dus wij zoeken iemand die bij ons wil komen bassen. Repetities vinden doorgaans plaats in Tilburg op vrijdagavonden. We hebben wat voorkeuren: Leeftijd: 20-35…

Welcome back music lovers, time for an update. We played our first show since the album release in November, our eleventh in total by the way, two Saturdays ago at dB’s in Utrecht. It was a DIY-deal, which basically means…

http://akelei.bandcamp.com/album/de-zwaarte-van-het-doorstane http://akelei.bandcamp.com/track/dwaaluur http://akelei.bandcamp.com/album/promo-08 Album orders: info [at] akelei [dot] org Misha