Club of the Dead

Wrap up 2025

Wrap up 2025

Okay guys, 2025 is closing and we just had a little throwback to everything that happened this year. So we thought to share some of our main projects that happened behind the scenes apart from all the other things: 1. New rehearsal room At the end of 2024 we found...

Behind the Scenes: Our Tribute to the Reaper

Behind the Scenes: Our Tribute to the Reaper

Hey guys,It's a me, Kai. Our take on a cover for the upcoming Bodom tribute sampler is finally out, and I thought I’d share a little background story about our contribution. Our “connection” and the song First, a quick roundup about our record label and our own...

Making of the “Cyan Night Dreams” artwork

Making of the “Cyan Night Dreams” artwork

Hey guys! It’s Benni here. Today we have a CLUB OF THE DEAD EXCLUSIVE “Making of” post about the development of the artwork for “Cyan Night Dreams”. We hope you’ll enjoy it! The Idea The progress from the first concepts to the final artwork was pretty much the same as...

5 things you didn’t know about “Dead And Alive”

5 things you didn’t know about “Dead And Alive”

Hi everyone, Kai here. A little over 4 years ago we released our second full length record “Dead And Alive” and while we somehow didn't collect a lot of “making of” stuff during the recording process, there are still some unreleased snippets which we can share with...

Behind the Scenes: Cyan Night Dreams Video Shooting

Behind the Scenes: Cyan Night Dreams Video Shooting

Hi everyone, it’s Lou here. Today I want to give you a little insight into our video shooting for our current single “Cyan Night Dreams”. The idea As this song is the title track of our upcoming record, we really wanted to have a complete CI concept for the album...

Behind the Scenes: I Am Video Shooting

Behind the Scenes: I Am Video Shooting

Hi everyone, it’s Lou here. Today we want to share a little closer look behind the scenes and the idea of our new music video for “I Am”. At first we had some Zoom meetings with our videographer Peter Leukhardt (Annisokay, Beyond The Black, Rising Insane) and talked...

Tech Talk: Live Rack – Pt. 1 – Evolution

Tech Talk: Live Rack – Pt. 1 – Evolution

Hello folks, Kai here. Last time Benjamin showed you his drum kit and already gave you a bit of an insight into our live gear. Today I will continue with it and try to explain a bit of why and how we use our gear. The whole thing is separated into 2 parts: Part 1 is a...

Tech Talk: Drums & Backing tracks

Tech Talk: Drums & Backing tracks

Hello everyone, Benni here. Today I want to give you a tour of my live drum setup, how it progressed over the years and how we use our backing track system to get all the keyboard parts and effect sounds on stage. This post might be more interesting for the musicians...

5 things you didn’t know about “The Pulse of the Dead”

5 things you didn’t know about “The Pulse of the Dead”

Today 8 years ago we released our very first music video for a song called “The Pulse of the Dead”. On May 18th, 2013 we would never have thought that this song and especially this one video could possibly have such an impact for the band - especially since we didn't...

Making of the “Dead and Alive” artwork

Making of the “Dead and Alive” artwork

Hey guys! It’s Benni here. Today we have a CLUB OF THE DEAD EXCLUSIVE “Making of” post about the development of the artwork for “Dead and Alive”. We hope you’ll enjoy it! The Idea First draft showing the defibrillator panels. When we started working on the artwork, we...

5 things you didn’t know about “Time Tears Down”

5 things you didn’t know about “Time Tears Down”

It was sometime between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 when we had enough songs finished, our first label deal secured and were finally ready to start working on our first full-length album - still without a title. Like with the self-titled demo, we didn’t...

Exclusive Bootleg: Sunset Overdrive live at Baden in Blut 20.07.2019

Exclusive Bootleg: Sunset Overdrive live at Baden in Blut 20.07.2019

A big crowd on a sunny summer festival day, loud music and a lot of beer - we all miss it so much! This is our first CLUB OF THE DEAD exclusive bootleg for you and we hope you enjoy it. In case you are wondering who the bassist in this video is: it’s not Lucien, but...