Three bells of doom sounded…
…when somewhere in the last days of 2007 guitar players Peter Egberghs & Kurt Blommé sealed a pact together with bass player Roel Van Doorsselaere to write and play metal in the spirit of the old Peaceville Three bands (Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Anathema) and old Katatonia. After some months searching for likeminded musicians they found vocalist Arne Vandenhoeck and drummer Dennis Lefebvre to complete the band. Soon their first songs were finished. After some very intense first shows in Fall 2008 they booked Literecordings studio to record their first EP ‘Norizon’.
Released in March 2009 the EP got some nice critics, and also a 10 dates tour. 6 dates alongside Australia’s The Eternal made the band hungry for more. In September another tour was set up, this time with Isole, and also the band’s first Darken the Moon festival. Next to that Marche Funèbre got asked to perform some acoustic gigs, which they gladly did.
Meanwhile song writing for a first full length album went on, and in October 2010 the band embarked to Excess Studios in Rotterdam to record the band’s debut ‘To Drown’, which would be released by Shiver Records in June 2011. Followed by more gigs and tours, most of them with bass player Zoran Van Belleghem. Most notably were the Isole-Ataraxie tour as well as a first gig in Vienna, Austria.
2013 was a very important year for MF. Firstly the band recruited Boris Iolis for bass duties, prior to go to the renowned Belgian recording studio Motormusic, in home base Mechelen, to track their sophomore album ‘Roots of Grief’ (Shiver Records). To promote the album several tours have been set up with Ahab, Mourning Beloveth, Saturnus, Eye of Solitude, Ophis and more international doom metal acts, seeing the band perform in about 10 countries.
