Wrok is back to disturb you with a second album of total uncomfortable and extreme black metal. "De dood roept" is a sick primitive Satanic black metal album with highly disturbing vocals, and is dedicated to all victims of suicide. Wrok was founded in the early 90s and still bring to mind the traditional sound of the Dutch black metal scene of that time. Expect nothing but pure bestial and primordial possession, as their legacy of highly controversial shows confirms. This soundtrack to the worst case scenario is a monument of misanthropy for fanatics of Bestial Summoning, old Barathrum, Profanatica, Apator. Wrok hopes this album pushes you over the edge.
This LP came with a pamphlet that gave instructions on how to successfully hang yourself. Feeling uncomfortable yet? Well, it's going to get worse, because the subject of unpleasant ways to die and all that comes with it runs through the whole of the album, both in music and artwork. If you guessed that this was going to be a black metal album, congratulate yourself right now, because it is. And a damn good one as well.
This is black metal of the vilest and darkest sort, inspired by stuff such as Von, old Beherit, Profanatica, Darkthrone circa 93 - 94, and Bestial Summoning. We get a highly toxic dose of filth-ridden black metal primitivism forced down our throats that doesn't do subtle in any way. The tremelo picked guitars belt out simple, rust-caked sounding riffs that are being underpinned by a speedy, straight forward battering percussive assault, driving forth the abrasive songs, with slower parts thrown in to pave the way for the next wave of raw sonic violence. The element keeping it all together are the tortured screams that seem to emanate from out of a moldy basement of an abandoned farm in the woods, adding yet another unsetteling element to this already vicious and disturbing patchwork of grimness. Doused with a suitably obscure soundmix that sounds surprisingly well balanced, with all elements of the music getting a deserved place in the total picture, this album establishes a wry, suffocating atmosphere that fits the subject matter like a coffin does a corpse.
This is quite the album, in all honesty. The atmosphere it exudes in all its morbidity is practically unchallenged in its cynical ways, and the raw, intense music only adds to the unease that the band simply seems to revel in. Sounding raw and unhinged, but at the same time clear and powerful, it oozes intensity and sadistic intent. Certainly no easy listening in any way, but it's equally as captivating as it is unsetteling and deranged
Sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM1S7bl0Puc&t=1349s
