BOCC - Obrint el taut The Ep Compilation

BOCC - Obrint el taut The Ep Compilation

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions

If ya played this for me and said it was a reissue by an obscure band from circa 1988 - 1992 I'd believe it. I mean sound-wise this is the epitome of that early sound when we fans started using the term Death Metal to describe the heavy handed, bestial vocals, dirty sounding insanity which wasn't Thrash influenced at all. I say that because yeah early DM was the next evolution step away from Thrash. 

Now of course this is not an old obscure band from way back when. BOCC are actually a three piece act from Barcelona, Spain who started out in 2019. For the record the band has been fairly prolific releasing a bunch of demo's, EP's, Splits, a compilation and a full length since starting out. I refer to that as spreading the disease. 

Now obviously while this band was killing it in Spain the rest of us were looking elsewhere. Thankfully the good people at Horror Pain Gore Death Productions heard something we fans missed and decided to release something from BOCC. But instead of waiting for a new full length the label decided on a compilation of three previously released EPs by the band. Frankly that was a great idea.

So what we have here is the band's first EP Al La Forca from 2020, their Santa Eulalia EP from 2021 and their La Forja Dels Cranis EP from 2024. That last EP is unique because the final cut is a cover of "Black Vision" from PURTENANCE. And they do a good job / homage to that old Finnish band's song. Obviously they know PURTENANCE's Member of Immortal Damnation is one of the greatest Finnish Death Metal albums of all time.

So yeah there's a lot to be said. Nowadays this is called Death Doom and I accept that. But I'm old and remember the times when Death Metal was either fast, in-between or slow. BOCC are in-between sounding. So if you still blast AUTOPSY's second album or MORTICIAN's first one then BOCC is the band you need to hear now in 2025. 

This compilation is over an hour's worth of crush, kill and destroy Death Metal. This is the musical brutality ya need to hear before you go out and face the day in 2025. Trust me on that one because listening to this is like a mission briefing on how to deal with a fucked up world. Nuff Said!

https://www.horrorpaingoredeath.com/

LISTEN HERE:

https://hpgd.bandcamp.com/album/obrint-el-tau-t