Album Review: Bocc – Promo 2025
Band: Bocc
Title: Promo 2025
Label: Night Terrors Records
Release date: April 29th, 2025
Country: Spain
Format reviewed: High-Quality Digital Recording
Album Review: Bocc – Promo 2025 via Night Terrors Records by Sílvia
Bocc is a band that, since its foundation back in 2019, have been releasing demos, splits and EPs (including a full-length album in 2022) in a consistent manner. They are a band from Spain and they’ve been building a solid career in the slowest of the Metal genres, always singing in Catalan.
With a heavily distorted and low tuned string work, Bocc are here to melt your brain with their Death/Doom Metal built on infectious tunes. They put a lot of putrescence in their songs in order to achieve THAT sound: filthy, rotten, decomposed. At times the bass resonates so deep that you feel your guts shaking in delight. And also at times vocals are so nasty that you wonder if they emerge from the throat of an alive human being.
But not only the bass; guitars do an impressive work playing on repeat riffs of decay and creating loops of pure sickness, all seasoned with the stompy power of drums, at times smashing the toms, snare and cymbals with kind of laziness, and other times infusing more groove to the whole thing. I’m really amazed that drums are not falling into repetitive patterns, but playing a lot of varied stuff.
My favorite track of this demo is “Estigma”, almost 9 minutes of slooow insanity. From the beginning, there’s a menacing atmosphere with those distorted guitars, ultra low bass and painfully slow drums; and when vocals appear, they are obscure, corrupted and using filthy deep growls. This is so sick! The song progresses like sludge slipping downhill, covering all your sanity as it goes forward. The chorus is an absolute killer, the words are vomited in your ears with no other intention than to infect your brain with all that filth. Also, I totally fall for the drum patterns used in this track. Near the end, when the bass is playing nasty and dark notes as a transition to the final chorus, my heart slows down too. I think I’m dead now.
The last song, “L’Escorxador” (“The Slaughterhouse”), is based on the namesake novel by Lluís Riera Porta, a Catalan writer. With a title like this, you can imagine the song is full of blood, guts and filth… as it is. All seasoned with disgusting slow tunes coming “straight from the sewers of Barcelona”, as the band states in their Bandcamp. And, as a plus, finding inspiration in poetry, literature… is a thing that I always admire.
I really wish this band gains more recognition, they are solid and great at what they do. 9/10
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