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VERKRAG

- Bloemfontein, FS, ZA Metal / Black Metal / Death Metal

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Members: Anton van Niekerk

Sounds Like: WRATH PASSION, MAYHEM, Marilyn Manson, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth

Bio: Verkrag, hailing from Bloemfontein, South Africa, is the solo project of Anton van Niekerk. ‘Verkrag’ is an Afrikaans word meaning; Rape, (raped, raping), violation, assault, ravishment.

By combining horrific and atmospheric sounds and dark Black and Death Metal riffs, Verkrag openly portrays th... See Full Bio

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Press

“In a quest to find some good underground metal music around the world, I stumbled upon Verkrag on the internet a few years ago. Verkrag is a one-man project masterminded by Anton Van Niekerk. He is a risk taking, offensive (at times), brutal, taboo artist in a good way. His music and images are very bloody and black metal styled. What makes him extra interesting is that he is based out of South Africa, of all places.”

— Eric Horner, chemical-magazine.com

"VERKRAG’s debut album, “13 Victims”, was self-financed and self-released on 13th December 2009, and now – to celebrate the fact that it’s Friday the 13th – it has been made available as a 100% FREE download. A couple of days ago, Verkrag whetted our insatiable appetites for this gift, by making his superb version of “Sweet DreAms (are made of this)” available for download… and I’ve been longing for the album ever since. If you would like to wrap your ear drums around this nugget of deranged brilliance, then head over to reverbnation.com/verkrag, sign up to the mailing list and hit that download button."

— Louise Yardley, http://louciferspeaks.com

"VERKRAG – a solo project of Anton van Niekerk (also in Wrath Passion) – is a Black and Death Metal melting pot that combines horrific and atmospheric sounds into its body. Lyrically speaking, Verkrag covers all of the stuff that your common or garden variety deranged serial killer contemplates – torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, etc. Wholesome stuff!"

— Louise Yardley, http://louciferspeaks.com

“One of the songs on the album 13 Victims is the dark and monstrous epic tune INCESTuous. It gives you wenetious shivers beyond 666 times around,when you sence the heart starts pumping the blood around. You also feel the bloodlust approaching when you become embraced by the beautiful melodic middleparts of the song 13 Victims. What can I say about the entire album then? Well that ought to be that Anton with raw, bark attached voice, proclaims with an authorative tone and doomy clarity the downfall and tragedy of living in the modern world.”

— Johanna, SDW METAL (Sweden)

“Anton touches on every twisted aspect of human nature and brings their horrors to life with his music. Who knows how much deeper this man will go into the realm of evil to conjure up his next album with another tale that one may... or may not... wake from.”

— devilmetal, brutalism.com (Netherlands)

“Anton calls his music 'Psychotic Black Metal'. Outgoing from the lyrical content and the artwork, we sure know what he means. Lyrical-wise the whole album tells a story about a killer who gets flashbacks about his childhood and his incestuous relationship with his sister. Later he starts saving prostitutes from the streets by killing them. When he's an older man, he adores the purity of little girls, and starts to torture, rape, kill and eat them before they can become impure... In the asylum, all victims haunt him, without knowing if it are ghosts or just something in his mind (we see him sitting in a dirty psychiatric hospital)...”

— KevinR, Fueled-Magazine (Belgium)

"After checking out the lyrical content about whores, perversity, ... I was wondering if Verkrag would look like those other sexual pervs... Cradle of Filth. A first quick run through the album proved us the opposite. Where Cradle sounds a lot more bombastic, Verkrag is a lot more old school. Verkrag fits a lot better with the perverse lyrics"

— KevinR, Fueled-Magazine (Belgium)

“The album starts with 'InSANITorY' which is a nice intro. It starts very smoothly but with the screams in the background, we get prepared for what is coming. In the next song, we enter the 'Asylum'. The tone is set... old school black metal riffing with some synths who make the atmosphere going below 0 degrees. Especially when we hear the sick killer screaming/shouting of Anton, it becomes ugly... But we want to see the sick bastard suffering, isn't it?! Glad this is the longest song then.”

— KevinR, Fueled-Magazine (Belgium)

“Third song is 'INCESTuous', where the flashbacks to his childhood begin... The song starts slowly and goes uptempo, with a mechanical sounding Anton. From time to time we hear Kerri-Ann Venter. Kerri-Ann is the devilish sister who wants to be fucked. Her 'spoken word' guest vocals make the story complete and give an extra atmosphere to the songs. The story continues with 'THE CLEANSING of the Whore' and 'Little Girls'...”

— KevinR, Fueled-Magazine (Belgium)

“Song number six, 'Sweet DreAms (are made of this)', you probably know from the Eurythmics hit in the 80's. Verkrag took the version of that other "perv", shock-rocker Marilyn Manson. Maybe a little strange to coöperate this song into the story, but Anton made an excellent Verkrag-version of the MM cover, and also lyrically this song fits well in the story.”

— KevinR, Fueled-Magazine (Belgium)

“After all the violence, musical and lyricwise, we get a nice instrumental song (except all the whispering, shouting, crying voices in the background). Then it's time for the penultimate song '13 Victims'. Unlike the previous 'IncestruMENTAL', Anton goes straight forward in this one. Screaming his perverse lyrics out, and the music that constantly stops to begin ultra brutal again... Here it is where the victims hunt their killer and where he gets sick in his mind... Or isn't it a mental issue, and are they really coming after him... And like the last song says, this outro is the 'eXXX(c)it(e)'.”

— KevinR, Fueled-Magazine (Belgium)

“Anton van Niekerk, a name we will hear a lot more in the future, I suppose. After making some name in the underground with Sanguinarius, he shows us he's totally back with his new project Verkrag. This "13 Victims" shows us black metal is alive and serious kicking ass in South-Africa.”

— KevinR, Fueled-Magazine (Belgium)

“The album can compete with the majority of the scene today. Especially when you see Anton did everything on his own... Not only the vocals and instruments (only drums are by computer), but also artwork and recordings (great sound for a normal home computer), publicity, releasing, ... I bet Verkrag can become a big name with a label after them! In the meanwhile, you'll find the album on a lot of internetstores, or just check out the Verkrag website. 83/100”

— KevinR, Fueled-Magazine (Belgium)

"Anton van Niekerk, many know the name and his work of dark art “13 Victims” from his project Verkrag. Low and behold he has rebuilt a whole album from scratch only to far exceed an already great work, Established an agency for dark models two of which became chosen by none other Dark Funeral to model apparel, Concreted himself as a graphic artist, and worked with underground black metal legends Wrath Passion hailing from Norway."

— Jeff, E.N.D. NATION MUSIC (U.S.A)

“Verkrag är ett enmansprojekt av och med Anton Van Niekerk. Det kanske är bäst låta honom presentera sig och sitt band själv: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTWJfxvA2-8 För första gången någonsin (tror jag) gästas ett norskt blackmetal band av en sydafrikansk sångare. Det är WRATH PASSION och VERKRAG som gemensamt framför låten Black Hole. www.myspace.com/verkrag www.myspace.com/wrathpassion”

— Ulrika, SDW Metal (Sweden)

"Demented depravity from the mind of a clinically insane pedophile, are the themes that surround Verkrag’s first full length album, '13 Victims'."

— Zvs Gastelvm , beyondthedarkhorizon.com (U.S.A)

"By combining samples, dark melodic riffs with black metal, Verkrag openly portrays the feelings of insanity, assault and despair. The mind altering sounds can make one wonder, where it all began…"

— Blissfulviolet , beyondthedarkhorizon.com (U.S.A)

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Pace Ride
Very much enjoyed listening to the tracks!! Much success on RN and beyond!
ONE MANS HATRED
sick ass tunes,video was awsome,stay brutal,,,
Shere Kahn
You can almost taste the festering blackness...amazing tracks guys
HeavyHardMetalmania
HeavyHardMetalmania.net For those who have not seen the last great, great, "VERKRAG The Offender Of Bloemfontein Interview" deepen social, cultural and religious Beliefs ...
KHASARATH
sick sick sick ...yeahh
RONUS
DAMN THATS SOME SIC TRACKS YOU HAVE! \m/ I'll be sharing it with friends for sure!