| Beraadslaging der
naargeestigheid split TAPE 2013: Boecx / Eeuwig / Alruin by Zwaertgevegt
(limited to 66 copies)
1: De sater
2: De vazal
3: De galg
line-up:
Boecx (vocals, guitars, drum programming) - alias of Kenneth
     
Review: Boecx kicks off
with echo-y black metal, where everything seems to be
recorded from afar. The drums are badly audible, except
for the snare drum, the vocals are croaking away in the
distance, and the guitars are hollow but not shrill and
sound far away. Still, Boecx sounds pretty interesting,
until you realise that there’s only one or two riffs
per song (first track 1, second track 2 but they just
split the song (not like a chorus), third track 1 with a
relatively short second riff in the middle). Since the
riffs are quite traditional - but nothing like
one-and-two-riff masters Von - the songs can get boring
after a few minutes. The fact that the vocals are often
too far away to get noticed, does not work in their
advantage...
Eeuwig has
a much better sound than Boecx (except for the vocals,
which are still pushed to the back) and, after having
checked out the three bands, should have opened the tape.
This band has a similar echo-y approach but manages to
put in audible drums and a more powerful sound. Like
Boecx the amount of riffs is quite small per song, but
that’s not really annoying here – we’re
used to this kind of songwriting in black metal. The
third track is a good cover of Von’s Watain,
and it fits in well with the two Eeuwig-tracks.
Alruin is
very, very similar to Boecx in sound, but just several
steps slower, but this sound has the unique quality to
fit both fast and slow songs. Having listened to all
three bands on this split, I think we are dealing with
three projects spawning from the same mind. The
similarities cannot be dismissed as coincidence.
Source: NLBMe exclusive,
March 2018.
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