demo TAPE 1997

1: Intro
2: Dying
3: The Dream
4: The Forest
5: Blasphemy
6: Feeling
7: Moonrise

line-up:
Bas Polder (drums)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)
Wieteke (bass)
Joeri Pronk (guitars)

demo TAPE 1997

1: In the Mist
2: Behind the Darkness
3: Yaotzin
4: The Dream
5: Black Moon Rising
6: Wim
7: Blasphemy
8: Black Tears

line-up:
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (rhythm guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)
Merijn Pronk (bass)
Joeri Pronk (lead guitars)

demo CD 1998
TAPE 2010 re-release by Zwaertgevegt

1: Heaven Burning Bleeding
2: Darkness
3: Chapter 23
4: Reborn in Blasphemy
5: Black Visions
6: Slava Tchortu

re-release bonus tracks:
7: Slava Tchortu (2008 version)
8: Funeral Bitch (rehearsal track)

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)

Review of the original: Until I was directed towards Heaven Burning Bleeding in 1998, I had never heard of Yaotzin at all. After I got the album, I was very impressed with what I heard during my first spin in the CD-player. It was a crossover between Zyklon-B's Blood Must Be Shed, borrowing its feather light but impressive sound, and Swedish black metal for the melodies. I often pulled it out of my collection to listen to it, only to find out thirty minutes later, that I had not gotten tired of it at all (although the first half of the CD is stronger than the latter). Personally, it had raised the enjoyment bar for this band to an unreachable level, so every release after this one found itself dissected in the enormous shadow of this album. This might be a bummer for the band, but it is what it is; or they shouldn't have debuted with such an enjoyable release!

Review of the re-release: What a dumb thing to do… This remix has botched a perfectly good recording with unnecessary ‘bass’ and ‘echo’, forcing the sharp guitars that made the debut album great to the background. I might be a bit prejudiced with this band, since they release way too much recordings, most of them rehearsals (and now remasters)! As a bonus an instrumental piece is added in a “2008 version”. Since it sounds just like an inferior Opus a Satana (of Emperor; which already is an inferior version of Inno a Satana), I’d not recommend it… As a black metal fan I’m not really waiting for a different version of an outro, or whatever this originally was. Another bonus is, what a surprise, a rehearsal track of a track that’s not on the mini-album. Misplacement and redundancy… Anyway, stick to the original debut, and forget this ever happened!

Source: NLBMe exclusive, July 2018 (re-release), April 2019 (original).

demo CD 1999

1: Intro
2: Eclipse
3: In the North
4: Spawn
5: Messiah's Fall
6: Suffering
7: Darkness
8: Reborn in Blasphemy
9: Black Visions
10: Heaven Burning Bleeding
11: Eternal Shadows
12: The Beginning of the End

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)

rehearsal demo CD 2001

1: God Is Dead
2: Black Visions
3: Bloodwritten
4: Chapter 24
5: Suicide
6: Deathscape
7: Darkness
8: Heaven Burning Bleeding
9: Reborn in Blasphemy
10: Eternal Shadows

unreleased rehearsal demo CD 2004

1: Black Visions
2: God Is Dead
3: Heaven Burning Bleeding
4: Darkness
5: The Incarnation of Satan
6: Deathscape
7: Blood Written
8: Chapter 23
9: Deathscape
10: Freezing Moon / Deathcrush - Mayhem covers

unreleased rehearsal demo CD 2006

1: God Is Dead
2: Bloodwritten
3: Vortex
4: Of Dead Souls
5: Christendom Perished
6: Incarnation of Satan
7: Christendom Perished
8: Vortex
9: Murder
10: Deathscape
11: Heaven Burning Bleeding

unreleased rehearsal demo CD 2006

1: Intro / God Is Dead
2: Bloodwritten
3: Vortex
4: Of Dead Souls
5: Kill the Pantheon
6: Christendom Perished
7: Incarnation of Satan
8: Christendom Perished
9: God Is Dead
10: Bloodwritten
11: Vortex
12: Of Dead Souls
13: Kill the Pantheon
14: Christendom Perished
15: Incarnation of Satan
16: Deathscape / Heaven Burning Bleeding

CD 2008 (limited to 100 copies)
TAPE 2008 by Frozen Darkness Productions (limited to 66 copies)

1: Deathscape
2: Bloodwritten
3: God Is Dead
4: Of Dead Souls
5: Vortex
6: Christendom Perished
7: Blood for My Blood
8: Kill the Pantheon
9: Outro

10: Christendom Perished (Brutal Shit Mix) - tape bonus track
11: Chaotic Black Mass Tribute - tape bonus track

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)
Sander Spoor (rhythm guitars)

live tracks 2004 on demo CD 2008

1: Christendom Perished
2: Kill the Pantheon
3: Of Dead Souls
4: The Incarnation of Satan
5: Vortex

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)
Sander Spoor (rhythm guitars)

rehearsal demo CD 2008

1: Intro of Hatred
2: Suicide (rehearsal)
3: Murder (rehearsal)
4: Freezing Moon / Deathcrush (Mayhelmus-rehearsal) - Mayhem covers
5: The Incarnation of Satan (rehearsal)
6: Secrets of the Black Arts (Dark Funeral rehearsal) - Dark Funeral cover
7: Christendom Perished (brutal shit pre-mix)

live double 3" CD 2009 by Svartgalgh Records

1: God Is Dead
2: Bloodwritten
3: Vortex
4: Of Dead Souls
5: Christendom Perished
6: Heaven Burning Bleeding
7: Deathscape
8: Darkness
9: Incarnation of Satan

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)

rehearsal demo CD 2009

1: Blood for My Blood (pre-version)
2: Intro - God Is Dead
3: Darkness - Bloodwritten
4: Deathscape - Heaven Burning Bleeding
5: Of Dead Souls - Kill the Pantheon
6: Spawn - Reborn in Blashemy

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)
Sander Spoor (rhythm guitars)

split TAPE 2010: Nattvargr / Yaotzin / Adversary / Infernal Damnation by Unholy Black Art (limited to 300 copies)

4: Anticosmos
5: Murder

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)
Sander Spoor (rhythm guitars)

live TAPE 2010 by Blackmetal-NL (limied to 20 copies)

1: 18 March 2000
2: 18 April 1996

live TAPE 2010 by Blackmetal-NL (limited to 20 copies)

1: Black Visions
2: God Is Dead
3: The Incarnation of Satan
4: Darkness
5: Heaven Burning Bleeding
6: Kill the Pantheon
7: Suicide
8: Bloodwritten
9: Murder
10: Deathscape

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)
Sander Spoor (rhythm guitars)

split demo TAPE 2010: Yaotzin / Adonai Sathanas / Nord by Zwaertgevegt

1: The Incarnation of Satan
2: Freezing Moon / Deathcrush - Mayhem covers

line-up:
Sander van Helvoort (bass)
Bas Polder (drums)
Arno van de Reep (guitars)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)_
Sander Spoor (rhythm guitars)

Review: First up are two rehearsal tracks by Yaotzin - the band that impressed me with the debut mini-CD Heaven Burning Bleeding. But Yaotzin turned out to be the kind of band that released every rehearsal or recording they ever did, resulting in a long list of more-of-the-same, totally pushing me towards avoidance. Don’t get me wrong, a track like The Incarnation of Satan is worthy stuff but really deserves a fierce studio production, and not a second rate rehearsal sound. The Mayhem covers Freezing Moon and Deathcrush are okay, and they probably work really well live or as well-produced studio versions. However, I’m not waiting for a rehearsal of these songs, other than by an early Mayhem line-up.

Adonai Sathanas has chosen a very weird sound for its vocals. While the instruments are sounding pretty decent - although I suspect them being a rehearsal - the vocals are weirdly balanced above the music, with a sound that immediately brings to mind a microphone stand in a shower. The Bathory cover Satan My Master is enjoyable, and the vocals seem to be a little more balanced here.

Nord offers very low-fi black metal, starting after a keyboard-intro that would have sounded too ramshackle even in 1990-1992... The black metal needs a few moments to warm up, but there are some moody riffs on Waar ooit leven was worth listening to. The drums are totally ignorable though, and sound like my own teenage-experiments in the early 1990s. Conclusion: intro and outro should have been skipped.

Source: NLBMe exclusive, March 2018.

demo CD 2014
TAPE 2014 by Zwaertgevegt

1: Chaosbringer
2: Malkuth
3: Murder
4: The Incarnation of Satan

line-up:
Bas Polder (drums)
Theo van de Plas (vocals)
Sander Spoor (rhythm guitars)
Nick Kuhl (bass)

Review: Finally, I have found something else to review from Yaotzin other than rehearsals and remasters. Chaosbringer is miles removed from the traditional trebble-filled stuff of Heaven Burning Bleeding, but is practically the same kind of black metal. Chaosbringer offers interesting twists on traditional black metal, with nice ‘different’ breaks and - how refreshing (no sarcasm!) - a noticable lack of the dissonants that have flooded this kind of black metal ever since Mayhem strayed from its traditional roots and went ‘prog’. Yaotzin brings to the table a good slice of well-produced, tighly played, solidly constructed old-school black metal, with a sound that works for the music. It also proves black metal doesn’t have to resort to off-tones to get interesting riffs.

Source: NLBMe exclusive, September 2018.