The Murky Story

Murky Red is a Belgian based band founded in 2009, who combines elements of classic rock, prog rock, blues, stoner, and metal in their music. If their musical style was a human life form, it would be the love child of Deep Floyd, The Black Doors, and Led Sabbath. Slayer and Monty Python were the nannies.

In 2011 they signed a record deal with the Florida based record label Melodic Revolution Records, and thanks to the support of Martin Smith (they call him the seventh band member) they were able to release their debut album ‘Time Doesn’t Matter’ in 2012, mixed and mastered by Colin Tench (Corvus Stone, Transmission Rails, Oceans 5, Coalition, CTP), who also became an additional band member actually.

In 2013 the band got screwed by a Canadian promoter/manager. To make a long and annoying story short, this had a big negative effect on their second album. They lost a lot of money, time and effort, but the band kept on moving and continued writing new songs.

After a nasty period of serious illness and the loss of loved ones, Murky Red was ready to strike again with their second album ‘No Pocus Without Hocus’, released on October 26, 2015, by Melodic Revolution Records. Colin Tench did once again a fantastic mixing and mastering job, and he added some majestic guitar parts on ‘Collateral Damage’, one of the new songs on the album. After the release of the album ‘No Pocus Without Hocus’, Patrick and Luk left the band for personal reasons. That was the time to reconsider the future of the band, as they struggle to work with a live band became more difficult.

In June 2016 Murky Red decided for not being a live band anymore. With Stef & Yolanda Flaming and Rene Marteaux as the core members, followed by Petri Lemmy Lindström (Progeland) this new approach gives them more freedom for writing and recording new music and working with all kinds of guest musicians.

Band Members

Stef Flaming: songwriting, guitars, keys & vocals
Rene Marteaux: drums
Marie Vancamp: vocals
Kim Mercken: vocals
Yolanda Flaming: vocals

Colin Tench: mixing and mastering and guest guitar player on ‘Heal My Bleeding Heart’ and ‘Collateral Damage’.

Hometown:
Helecine, Brabant-Wallon, Belgium

Style of Music:
Classic Progressive Rock. Psychedelic, Stoner, Blues

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Discography

No Pocus Without Hocus (Special CD Edition) (2016)
No Pocus Without Hocus (2015)
Time Doesn’t Matter (2012)

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