endevenir

endevenir is the solo project of German musician Philipp Berdenis van Berlekom, built around one recurring idea: becoming. The name, a warped fusion of “en” and “devenir”, points to becoming as an ongoing process rather than a fixed identity – what endevenir releases is less the artist than a trace of his becoming.

Before starting endevenir, Philipp wrote in the German black metal scene, contributing songs to Waldgeflüster’s album Femundsmarka. After several years without releasing music, the project marks a quiet return under his own name.

Musically, endevenir moves between dark rock, post-metal, black metal, electronic passages and dark, folk-like tones. The debut album im werden zerrissen (“torn apart through becoming”) is a 32-minute work in German that stays close to the fault line between being and becoming. Mixed and mastered by Markus Stock, it focuses less on resolution than on the risks of remaining on that narrow ridge.