Karkait

In October 2024, the members of the hardcore band Karkait embarked on a two-week stay in the South of France. Under rainy skies and in constant dialogue with the resident owl, the trio found themselves shaking up the previous seven years of their collaboration and create a new musical dynamic that ranges from disintegrated folk, through improvisation, to arrhythmic metal.

Musrara Mix 2025 is proud to host Karkait with the debut concert of these new materials for its closing event. 

Karkait’s three members (Amos Pelled, Ron Sheskin and Daniel Treystman) are drawn to extreme forms of musical expression. Forever on the lookout for transgressive musical motifs, the trio uses broken rhythms, scorched sounds, scream-cries and whisper-sighs to create a chaotic world of dissatisfaction, dissonance, uncertainty, and existential angst. Their live shows are a quick and dense experience where time seems to fall apart into something between self-observation and the pure satisfaction of loud musical tightness.

It took the local scene in Israel about a length of one grindcore song from the moment Karkait was formed in 2017 to fall in love completely. Word spread that the newest band in town is also probably the best band the town has seen in years, and by the release of their debut cassette tape in 2019 via Orgasmatron Records, the audience was already aching to see them live again and again. The album has been warmly welcomed throughout the Israeli Hardcore and Metal scenes, as well as the scene of obsessed fans from various backgrounds waiting outside the gig. That same year Karkait went on a European tour along with Berlin’s finest hardcore band Nervöus. Since then, they hover with their music and far-fetched artistic visions all over the country in music festivals, special collaborations, and even a self-curated art exhibition.