Bok are a solo project from Netherlands that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays a very raw form of black metal with elements of doom, thrash metal, post punk and electronic music and this is a review of his self released 2025 album "Mors Gregis" which will be released on August 29th.
Dark sounding synths start off the album and also mixes in with the heavier sections of the songs at times. When the music speeds up a great amount of tremolo picking and blast beats can be heard which also gives the songs more of a raw feeling while the riffs also add in a great amount of melody.
Vocals are mostly high pitched black metal screams while the songs also add in a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts. Electronic sounds are also utilize quite a bit throughout the recording along with the slower sections of the album also being very heavily rooted in doom metal.
Elements of post punk can also be heard at times along with some of the guitar riffing also adding in influences of thrash metal as well as some of the tracks also being very long and epic in length, goth rock style vocals can also be heard briefly and a couple of songs also add in a small amount of spoken words. The production sounds very dark and raw while the lyrics cover darkness and anti religion themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Bok and if you are fan of raw black metal with elements of doom, thrash metal, post punk and electronic music, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Doctrine OF The Sulphur Kiss" "The Bearer And The Harlot" and "Specs altera vitae". 8 out of 10.
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