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Mor de Naere – vocals
Houtekiet – guitar
Heer Halewyn – guitar
Malcus – bass guitar
Marchosias – drums
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Genre: Black Metal
Origin: Netherlands
Label: Folter Records
Status: Active
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Walpurgisnacht play raw old style black metal, but combine this with a melancholic and epic touch, which is expressed in the melodic style of guitar riffing. Inspiration for both music and lyrics is mainly drawn from some obscure Dutch legends and the (original) grim and gloomy quality of "De Peel" - a once huge and impenetrable area of marshes, moors, fens and woods in the south of the Netherlands. The band has its roots in 1996 when Heer Halewyn, Houtekiet and Marchosias occasionally played some covers from mostly Norwegian black metal bands. After a while they began to write their own material and the name Walpurgisnacht was chosen. But then the band was laid on ice for a long time, because of Marchosias' various activities in other bands (Cirith Gorgor, Grimm, Zwartketterij). Houtekiet however kept writing music over the years and finally, in the middle of 2002, the rehearsals restar
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