After having tried to raise several pagan metal-projects without success, Grimgäert is fed up with it. He begins a fairly bold quest to find future members for a heathen band, whose dedication and undiluted metalized blood should be a guarantee for true musical brotherhood. And you know what - in the end, he finally succeeds, consequently in August 2001 a new five-piece band is officially founded. "Wapenspraak & Drinkgelag", as the brand new Klan is to be known, soon adopts a very own conceptual and musical style. They draw their inspiration from the heathen past, folklore and mythology of North-Western Europe: Saxon pagan kults, frenzied Celtic warfare, dark local folk tales, etc. And what 's more, these lyrics are not just simple "tales", they all are scientifically grounded and do carry a metaphoric message that feeds the ever flickering heathen flame. Well, most of them do, that is. Maybe a couple of other songs are more fitted as a soundtrack for rowdy bar fights or relentless poser slaughter. But in the end, all the songs are connected to each other by one thing: they all are penetrated by the blistering aura of the ancient Masters of the Land. Of which most of them are not so happy with the contemporary ways of behavior of human beings, must be noted.

Musically, the KlanKült was originally meant to be a mid-tempo pagan metal-band, influenced by such groups as Tumulus, Skyforger, Storm, Arckanum, Bathory and so on. And the first two songs actually were "mid tempo pagan metal-tracks". But quite soon there came a new element in the sound: raw, old-fashioned and in-yer-ugly-face thrash metal. W&D blended the above-mentioned epic, mid-tempo, powerful pagan metal-element with influences from bands like Sodom, Running Wild, Celtic Frost, (old) Unleashed and Exumer, and created in this way a very own musical style, quite exclusively stamped "Pagan Stormfolk Thräsh Attakk". The English band Sabbat (R.I.P.) is the only group to be compared with W&D to some extent, but people have said to find the insanity of Impaled Nazarene or Absu in the compositions and the Klan, next to the aggressiveness of old Slayer and the obscurity of the first two Immortal-recordings.

Jolly fine references indeed. In 2004, the band releases it's first official CD, aptly called "De strijdlust van het zwijn" - "The ferocity of the boar". It concerns a split-CD with Flemish pagan metal-band Garmenhord (R.I.P.), released under the banner of the new Belgian label Lugbúrz Productions. Reviews of this CD have been very good 'til fucking plain splendid and provided the Klan with a recognition beyond the Low Lands. 2007 now sees the re-release of our first two sold out recordings on the local Metaldistro label (www.metaldistro.be). Meanwhile, material for the first full-length CD is nearly finished and ready to be recorded.