DRUMS
Noah Rahn
No show drummer, no dead weight. Noah Rahn drives VARKOV with stoic precision, controlled pressure, and relentless forward momentum. His playing does more than hold the songs together — it forces them forward.
BASS
Marek Thies
Marek Thies gives the sound its weight. Depth, density, and heaviness never feel decorative in his hands, but built into the foundation. His bass anchors VARKOV where impact becomes something physical.
VOCALS
Lucian Veit
Lucian Veit is more than the band’s voice. Dark, controlled, and compelling, he brings pressure, presence, and identity into the center of VARKOV. His presence is not built on volume, but on authority.
GUITARS
Adrian Grimm / Jonas Grimm
The brothers form the sonic backbone of VARKOV. Sharpness, structure, and gravity meet precise guitar work with a clear signature.
FIRST SINGLE RELEASE
“The Nine Ride Again” is more than just a first glimpse — it is the moment the gate begins to open. VARKOV unleash a single that condenses darkness, weight, and atmosphere into a sound that instantly conjures vivid imagery.
Ominous, precise, and driven by an unstoppable forward momentum, the track signals what is to come: a debut that is not meant to simply appear, but to leave a lasting mark.
DEBUT ALBUM - OUT NOW!
VARKOV’s debut album hits like a punch to the gut — dark, massive, and free of any trace of compromise. Instead of empty effects, the band delivers songs with substance, edge, and a weight you don’t just hear, but physically feel.
Atmosphere and heaviness lock together seamlessly, shaping a debut that doesn’t just demand attention, but leaves an impact. For true metalheads, this isn’t a release for the background — it’s an album that grips, lingers, and leaves its mark.
The debut album
IS OUT NOW!
SECOND ALBUM
OUT NOW!
VARKOV’s second album, Clash of the Arcanes, takes the weight of the debut and drives it into a darker, more complete form — not just a collection of heavy songs, but a full story of power, fracture, and collapsing order.
This is still unmistakably VARKOV: massive riffs, controlled force, sharp songwriting, and a darkness built on structure rather than empty spectacle.
But this time, the band goes further. Sacred systems clash. Sealed forces break open. Rival orders rise against each other until no claim to power remains untouched.
Clash of the Arcanes is heavy metal with a narrative spine — cold, forceful, and deliberate. It does not chase fantasy grandeur. It turns conflict into architecture, pressure into sound, and leaves behind something harder than victory: consequence.
NEXT ALBUM
After Clash of the Arcanes, VARKOV moves deeper — away from collapsing orders and into something older, colder, and harder to escape.
The upcoming third album, The Sand Remembers, opens a new chapter shaped by death, memory, and the rules beneath the surface. This is not mythology as decoration. It is a dark heavy metal descent into buried systems, broken rites, false tombs, silent courts, and the places where even death fails to make a final claim.
Still unmistakably VARKOV, but sharper, stranger, and more severe, The Sand Remembers turns the desert into a witness and the afterlife into a machine. What dies should disappear. What is buried should be lost.
But the sand remembers.
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CONTACT
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