Dutch alternative/stoner rock trio Skallebieter presents their self-titled debut album, available now on all major streaming platforms

Urk, Netherlands based alternative/stoner rock trio Skallebieter presents their self-titled debut album, which was released on February 17th, 2024.

»Skallebieter« is available now on Spotify and all major streaming platforms!

Tracklist:
01. Red Rain
02. Gravedigger
03. Some Love
04. See Through Lies
05. Who Rules The Night
06. Linerider
07. See Through Lies

“Alternative stoner rock that moves the crowd and makes the crowd move!”

Heavy rock band Skallebieter takes your daily distress to a higher level! Howling guitars, hellishly raw basslines and beastly drums takes you into a dark landscape full of haunted seas and angry crowds, the widely infamous Urk, where Skallebieter was summoned in April 2018. The sincerity, gushing energy, spooky sound and songwriting made Skallebieter grow into a three headed hellhound.

“We don’t need a Ouija board to summon demons,” says singer and bass player Gerard Bruggeman about the unique sound of Skallebieter. The single »Red Rain« (2020) is old school horror in it’s purest form: thrilling riffs by guitarist Cees Mulder fall like hailstones out of the hellish skies and the tight, heavy groovy drums of Pieter Brouwer leaves every drained body in ecstasy.

Photo by Maaike Ronhaar

The dark and devilish sound of Skallebieter has been described as a “sinister meeting of heavy rock and psychedelic jams,” in wich resonate the dark influences of bands like Danzig, Elder, Death Alley, Black Sabbath, Type O Negative, Queens Of The Stone Age and The Misfits. Skallebieter rose from the still smoking ashes of Roadcrew, a thunderous hard rock band with a stamped seaman’s book: the pursuasive power of Skallebieter on stage is due to the large number of gigs of previous bands. And the ghost train Skallebieter rumbles on without brakes!

Skallebieter commented on their self-titled debut: “Our first album… This album means a lot to us. We’ve been through a lot, and had a lot of reasons to call it quits, but we didn’t. And we’re proud of that. The band that came out of this is a stronger band than before. This process felt like a deep dive to us. Something we had to withstand and get out of.

Pretty soon after we finished the songs, we knew we wanted to add an image that reflects this process, and we knew right away Maaike Ronhaar was the right person help us find this image.

Thank you so much Maaike for this collaboration! We couldn’t have done this without you!”

Get »Skallebieter« on vinyl / digital: skallebieter.bandcamp.com/album/skallebieter

Skallebieter is:
Gerard Bruggeman – Bass; vocals
Cees Mulder – Guitar
Pieter Brouwer – Drums

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well