Der Klinke - Building castles in the dark

Der Klinke is a new wave band from Belgium. Combining the pure atmosphere of the eighties with more contemporary influences. They describe their music as "Sounds from a deep dark foggy basement club surrounded by slow motion shadows, wavers, goths and dreams of a forgotten world". Or in other words you could say that their sound is a unique variety of dark industrial dance, coldwave and classical post-punk.

Der Klinke started in 2009 as a collaboration between.Back then the band was only Geert Vandekerkhof (Ches), Melissa Vandewalle and Manu Coulier (who did the video's) The band's name was quickly chosen because it all started with the reunion of "De Klinke" in 2009. De Klinke was a garden shed outside Geert Vandekerkhof"s parental house built into a small new wave club.

The new wave club of the eighties De Klinke was revived for a short time. But more importantly it gave birth to the band Der Klinke, adding the "r' to De Klinke.

From the beginning De Klinke chose for video and Youtube  to get their musical message accross. In this way Der Klinke gained popularity, even without an album release.  Clear Mind was the very first Der klinke song. With Castle in the Dark and You they visually explored the more darker sides of homebase and coastal town Oostende.

In 2011 Der Klinke released their first album Square Moon. Melissa Vandewalle had left the project. Heidi Van Tiggelen became more involved in the project (keyboards, visuals) and Der Klinke became a 'real' band.

Tracklist:

 Perfectly Dead

You

 Surrender

Square Moon

3 Am

Radio

The Voice

Where It Ends

Clear Mind

Castle In The Dark

At Night

After the release of "Square Moon" Der klinke started to go live.To make this work Sam Claeys, Chris De Neve, and Marco Varotta joined the band(Bassguitar, drums, guitar). So with the recordings of "The Second Sun " der Klinke aimed at making this album sounding quite different.. improved.  Like Ches once said.. "Square Moon" was the album that I should have released in the eighties, while "The Second Sun" is the one that had to be released in the nineties.. "Our third album will be the one of today.."

Pictures In My Mind

House Of Belief

Chasing Shadows

The Game

Universal Energy

The Second Sun

Las Fàbricas

In Flames

Love In Colours

Last Moments

After the release of "The Second Sun" der Klinke played many of gigs and created a cover of Fad Gadget's "Back to Nature'. 

In 2012 it was ten years ago that he past away so suddenly... Inspired by Fad Gadget and other classic new wave anthems like A Forest (the Cure) and Our Darkness (Anne Clark), Der klinke boxed together The Doll EP

Tracklist:

The Doll - Extended Version

Cold Dance

Eternal

The Doll - Instrumental

Where It Ends - 2013 Version

Cold Dance - Instrumental

The Doll - Original Version

Eternal - Instrumental

By the end of 2013 Der Klinke released a second single and video The Facts of Life for their upcoming third album. When listening to the demo they found it sounding quite military so they decided to do something with it in a setting of the first world war.. After all "Flanders Fields"is in their backyard in a manner of speaking..

Der Klinke didn't realise that 2014 was nigh is the year of massive memorials of WW I - The Great War. Marco volunteered to take the role as British soldier of The Great War.