
Doodseskader is not an easy band to describe – and that’s exactly the point. This Belgian duo, formed by Tim de Gieter and Sigfried Burroughs, throws an unpredictable mix of sludge, hardcore, noise, hip hop and experimental rock in your face. Their sound is raw, intense and uncompromising, yet full of emotion and excitement at the same time.
With a DIY mentality and a ruthless live reputation, Doodseskader is building a universe of their own in which chaos and control are at constant loggerheads. Their songs feel like a sonic attack, yet just below that brutal surface, there is a layered bed of rhythm and atmosphere. Their new album “The Change Is Me” did not come about without a struggle. After spending eight months in 2024 and 2025 on writing, recording, producing and mixing “Year Three”, the successor to “Year One” and “Year Two”, the duo decided to start all over again. Playing shows during the same period they were dealing with the recording process of “Year Three” was something that created a kind of disconnect – a disconnect between the people they were when they wrote the album and the people they became through playing the shows. “We are people with flaws and strong points and we realized that we had to accept that. That is something both sobering and liberating. When you are so focused on self-improvement, you don’t take the time to appreciate the progress you’ve already made. This project is meant as a document of us and of the human condition, not as a self help book that would hold us back about something that may or may not have happened or was caused by us in the past.”
Instead, Doodseskader decides to take a new creative approach, spending a week in Tim’s own Much Luv Studio with just one goal in mind: to record an album that documents who they were at that very moment. For the first time in years, they wrote everything together in the same room. The process of bringing the project to life was documented by Diana Lungu in their latest documentary, “Now I Know You See Me”.