Black Thorn is about the darkness that can be found inside of you. The impulses that make you decide to do things that aren’t beneficial to you as a person. And how this darkness can be in many shapes and sizes; hidden in between thoughts and impulses you thought were good.

Recorded at RockTown Studio, Rotterdam
Recorded by Menno Plaum
Mixed by Menno Plaum

Check out the lyric video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHQ069XS7IE

▲ GEAR ▼
Custom Iceman Coppertop
Marshall JCM900 Amp
Darkglass B7K
Zultan Cymbals
Ludwig Black Magic Snare

▲ LINKS ▼
Website: https://www.karvel.band/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/karvelband
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karvelband/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5fgVbOMOS91NE6PPmusJUg

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/nl/artist/karvel/1471440989
Bandcamp: https://karvelnl.bandcamp.com/

▲ LYRICS ▼
Stay away from me, see
I’ve been caught inside these
Walls I call my own
Riddled with black thorns

Feeds you riddles to find
All good turns you blind
A serenade off key
What never was won’t be

Leave, from center stage
No more confusion now
End of the day

Fiend, the one you feed
Keep you awake, while you wanna sleep

Fractures in the glass shell
Always there to show and tell
The dark never did fade
It just stood hidden in shame

Dressed as a familiar friend
Always there to lend a hand
A foe with hidden cost
I'm slowly falling apart again

Black Thorn

Karvel performing "With Abandon"
Captured live at MuziekFabriek Vlaardingen

Recorded by Menno Plaum
Mixed & mastered by Haico van Oosten

Special thanks to Marije Kuipers and Roland Pastoor

www.karvel.band
www.facebook.com/karvelband
www.soundcloud.com/karvelband
www.instagram.com/karvelband

Lyrics:
Oh, you've got eyes like raging fire
Burning my fuel up with abbandon
Nobody's ever told me when to shut up and sit down
I'm picking fights with satellites don't try and stop me now
Sick of being on the grid, armageddon can't come quick enough

Oh, when the end times roll around I will be cruising down the highway
A hundred miles away, just leaving tire tracks behind
Not over it, still bones to pick, there won't be peace of mind
Sick of being on the grid, armageddon can't come quick enough

With Abandon

Karvel performing "Rubicon"
Captured live at MuziekFabriek Vlaardingen

Recorded by Menno Plaum
Mixed & mastered by Haico van Oosten

Special thanks to Marije Kuipers and Roland Pastoor

www.karvel.band
www.facebook.com/karvelband
www.soundcloud.com/karvelband
www.instagram.com/karvelband

Lyrics:
Shrug it off - tip the scale
leave it trying to come
through thoughts and violence

Waiting for days on end
Just leave me dying on the floor
Case closed, you said

Hold I’m still breathing
I’m waiting for these signs that I’m freed

Hold, I’m still breathing
Fading to black, crossing the rubicon

Play the part - Lose the game
that’s what I’m supposed to do
through thoughts and violence/

Grab the spade - Dig my grave
While I’m dying on the floor
Case closed, you said

Hold I’m still breathing
I’m waiting for these signs that I’m freed

Hold, I’m still breathing
Fading to black, crossing the rubicon

Rubicon

Karvel performing "Beyond The Veil"
Captured live at MuziekFabriek Vlaardingen

Recorded by Menno Plaum
Mixed & mastered by Haico van Oosten

Special thanks to Marije Kuipers, Roland Pastoor and badgers

www.karvel.band
www.facebook.com/karvelband
www.soundcloud.com/karvelband
www.instagram.com/karvelband

Lyrics:
Drowned in the desert
Lost my way home
Waiting for deliverance
Of my kingdom come

Sit back and relax doll
With your indecision
X marks the spot and you got
Away away

All the steps I’ve taken seem pointless
As I could tell, beyond the veil
Shifting through thoughts to find an opposite feeling
Closing in are walls to vast as time drags on

Taste of spades
sours my mouth
Counting the days
Until I’m out

You sleep tight, just close your eyes
With your indiscretion
X marked the spot and you got
Away away

All the steps I’ve taken seem pointless
As I could tell, beyond the veil
Wrecked by the facts I’ll be gone in the end
I’m doomed, my friend
Closing in are walls to vast as time drags on

Beyond The Veil

Karvel performing "Reach For The Sun"
Captured live at MuziekFabriek Vlaardingen

Recorded by Menno Plaum
Mixed & mastered by Haico van Oosten

Special thanks to Marije Kuipers and Roland Pastoor

www.karvel.band
www.facebook.com/karvelband
www.soundcloud.com/karvelband
www.instagram.com/karvelband

Lyrics:
Reach for the sun
Into the fray
I might hope 
That I soon catch fire

Supposed to heal
Still a loose stitch
The bleeding won't stop until I scratch the itch

I want to see
Is this real
I want to know and I want to feel
Get it together, shape it like mud
Make of me a copy of what you should've gotten by now

Burns on my skin
Still cold within
I still hope that I soon catch fire

Picking at the scabs until I hit veins
I don't wanna stop now, I want to see blood

Keeping my guard high as the wall
But for who?

Wasting my time, falling in line
I'm a fool

Saving my face, waiting in place
While it's trouble I throw at my own walls
Stating: 'I'm not afraid, it's just the way that my heart is engaged with this charade.'

Reach For The Sun

"Running Slow, But Never Dry" is our single that we recorded during quarantine. It's a little taster of the upcoming EP we are going to work on. Enjoy! And don't forget to follow us on social media if you like this track.

Quarantine Sessions

Running Slow, But Never Dry

Listening to Karvel's particular brand of rock makes you feel like there's sand between your teeth. Don't worry, that's by design. Its music scrapes, screeches, but also soothes. No singular voice, but a plethora of different flavours, all sharing a dark gritty undertone.

This raw progressive alternative rockband from Rotterdam, NL, is a three-headed formation, featuring: Pelle Kuipers on vocals and guitar, Sander Pastoor on bass and backing vocals, Yoeran Luteijn on drums.