Murat İlkan

Murat İlkan is a Turkish musician. He is the vocalist of heavy metal band Mezarkabul.
After Hakimiyeti Milliye Primary and İzmir Fatih High School, he graduated from Kadıköy Kenan Evren High School. When he was living in İzmir, he also was a swimmer in Karşıyaka S.K. for 8 years.

Music career

In 1987, he founded the band Sawdust and gave concerts with the group. He received honors in the TRT Golden Antenna and Kuşadası Golden Pigeon competitions. He worked with the band Cherokee in various clubs for four years.
He joined Mezarkabul in 1995. He was a vocalist on the band's albums Anatolia, Unspoken and Bir as well as live albums Popçular Dışarı and 1987. On 1 May 2010, he announced that he decided to leave the band and continue his music with a solo project called Murat İlkan Akustik due to his MS diagnosis. His solo album Fanus was released in 2013.
In 2015, he appeared as a guest artist in the song Buhran of the band Takıntı. Also in 2015, he appeared as a guest artist in Atra Hasis, the opening track of the first album of the Istanbul symphonic death/folk metal band Khepra. In 2016, he sang the song Rüya in Metin Türkcan's album Vakti Geldi. Also in 2016, he sang the song Ufaktı Sistem in Selim Işık's album Tutunamayan. In 2017, he rejoined Mezarkabul.