BOK drops a first experiment.
Born from Dutch musician MvG (Göll, Experimentum), the project unveils its first demo, Metastasis Dei, in 2024,
We start with Let the Sickness Guide You, an unhealthy noisy introduction on which sampled voices intermingle, making us feel uneasy, before Deep Inside the Tomb of the Matriarchs takes us back to the basics of Black Metal, whether with chilling riffs or an Old School mix. The mysterious vocal parts give the composition an interesting personality and its airy touches, while Metastasis Dei, the eponymous composition, will first bury us under a basis of heady heavy sounds before returning to more raw touches, nuanced by the keyboards in the background. A few ghostly interventions fuel the anguish before letting Yonic Decadence take their place with its own eerie and sometimes even majestic sounds, before finally letting them explode to return to the original fury. The demo ends in Dark Ambient tones with As Black Willows Spread, the Pale Widows Cry, a final composition of almost fourteen minutes where keyboards and noises collaborate to make the atmosphere as oppressive and unbreathable as possible, while integrating some oriental influences.
Metastasis Dei seems to be the first stone of a much larger work, which is as much about early Black Metal as it is about heavy ambience. I’m sure we’ll be hearing more from BOK in the near future.
80/100
