BOAL
Grouping of the Netherlands, Brutal Death Metal full of monstrous riffs and sharp explosions, guttural and diseased voice and download through the American label SEVARED RECORDS, their masterpiece "INFINITE DEPRIVATION", 8 songs that are devastating, I leave you with this small interview.
1 A brutal greeting from Colombia, there writes to them Ricardo Bedoya, The Director of the magazine SCUMZINE, how does it go quite in the band?
Hi Ricardo whats up? We're pretty much busy creating our new EP, and as always we have some setbacks in the process. But we keep on struggling and eventually it will be released. Most of us have other bands and projects going on or busy dayjobs, so the band doesn't always get the attention it needs.
2 - what can you speak to us about BOAL's new material?, title of the work?, how many topics it brings the new material?, which is the concept of the new front page? And that evolution will have the new work?
Our new EP will be titled 'Trinity Of Deception' and will contain three new songs and a cover song. Lyricwise it will deal with how humanity, religion or the media control your opinions and views in everyday life. Too many people don't think for themselves and believe eveything they are told. Too be honest I haven't thought about the art yet. As soon as I'm done recording my part I will focus on that. We were supposed to start recording 6 months ago, but due to some stuff in personal life that got delayed. But I seriously hope the EP will be done around summer. The new stuff will sound quite different. First of all the songs are a bit slower and we will have a new vocalist. The guttural voice on 'Infinite Deprevation' didn't fit to the music that well in my opinion, although Peter did a good job, so we go for more intelligible grunts this time.
3 how does it go to do the work of recording with GERARD BRAAKSMA?, which was the decision to record with him?
Gerard is an old friend who plays with our good friends in Coldblooded and we wanted a real drummer instead of a drummachine, so the choice was really easy to ask him to lay down the drumtracks. He is a real powerful and groovy drummer, so I hope it works out well.
4- How did you arrive to the rows of SEVARED RECORDS?, how do things go with the distribution of " INFINITE DEPRIVATION "?
I do designwork for Sevared for quite some years, so it was pretty obvious to ask Barrett if he was interested in releasing Boal on Sevared Records, even though we don't have the typical Sevared sound. To be honest I have no idea how sales go, but since Barrett was interested in releasing a new EP it must have done good enough.
5-Let's speak about " INFINITE DEPRIVATION ", how was it the process of recording, mixmed and masterización of the disc?, how was it the work with TYMFLYS STUDIO, and SOUNDLODGE STUDIO?
The recording was a hell to be honest. Since we did most of the recording ourselves in Philippus his Tymflys studio we had way to much time. When we were done recording and started listening we werent satisfied over some things and decided to start from scratch and record the whole damn thing again. After five songs or so we actually decided to change some things again. It was crazy and we decided that we just had to finish it and release it. Then we went to Jorg Uken of Soundlodge Studio who reamped the guitars and really did some magic on the mixing and mastering. There were some things we think we should have done different, but i'm pretty satisfied with the endresult.
6 - how did it it receive the extreme press and the fans?
As always some people like it and some people hate it and we're fine with that. But we got quite some nice reviews and lots of great reactions from people who liked the record, which is awesome ofcourse.