Gigs with bands like:
Agathodaimon, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, Belphegor, Desaster, Eisregen, Eminenz, Graveworm, Hollenthon, Hypnos, Lord Belial, Morrigan, Mystic Circle, Penetralia, Satanic Slaughter, Siebenbürgen...

Gigs in countries like:
Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia...

Songs on several compilations, e.g.:
Hot Metal, European Death-o-Phobia II, Vönger,...

All records available at Supreme chaos records.
Distributed by Twilight Vertrieb.
- US Century Media.
- RUS CD-Maximum.

Band history:
In September of 1997 Dennis Klink on the keys, Thomas Reeß on the drums, Robby Beyer at the vocals, Florian Spannagel and Michael Zieschang on the guitars wrote the original kind of Black Metal on their banner and formed up the basis of "Karkadan". But the first creative activities of the band were taken up at the beginning of December. The line-up of this time was replenished by replacing Michael Zieschang on the guitar with Daniel Pütz and Felix Moosmann joining the band on the bass guitar. In seeking its own style the music of "Karkadan" developed to a very varied mix of the dark types of Metal. The result is a symbiosis between hard Heavy Metal and extreme Black and Death Metal vocals. Because of no better description the followed direction was called "Black Heavy Metal".
Only three months after its foundation the band did its very successful live debut. The very positive reactions were the reason for the decision to present the written material to the public. In December of 1999 the debut album called "Eternal black reflections", which was first thought to be a simple demo record, was finished. It was recorded and produced at the Maranis Studios by Vagelis Maranis (Sanvoisen). After the recordings Florian Spannagel left the band for musical reasons and Thomas Reeß for health reasons. Thomas Reeß was replaced by Marcel Frano on the drums for a short period.
In November 2003 the recordings for the second album "Utmost Schizophrenia" were finished and D.P. left the band. Aside the only left founding member R.B. (voc) the band is now completed by P.C. on guitars, C.G. on bass guitar, M.D. on drums and the latest band member J.K. on guitars.
The band has won more and more fans playing various gigs which were always acoustical and optical impressing events.

Meaning of the band name:
KARKADAN is borrowed from the persian mythology. The "Karkadann" (with two n) is a bloodthirsty saber-toothed tiger-like animal with an horn on its forehead. Besides it is a bit bigger than the tiger. According to the mythos many knights tried to kill a "Karkadann", for the horn, the teeth and for the glory coming with it. But most of them failed and had to give their lives for it, anyway the rest of them succeeded in accomplishing the downfall of the "Karkadann".
There was only one possiblity to tame the "Karkadann". The singing of a nightingale was what made it calm down and even dreaming. In this way we try to put and create worthy music. Gloomy, lusting for murder and also full of fantasies, almost dream-like. Of course it is not possible to put all this into one song but we will anyway try to...