Boil

Jacob Lobner - vocals Stig Nielsen - guitar/vocals Mads Vigeholm - guitar Brian Stilling - bass Mikkel Ib - drums, percussion Based in Aarhus, Denmark, the progrock band BOIL plays an ambitious style of progressive rock and metal that balances on the delicate edge of melodic catchiness, intricacy and complexity. With the 5 members drawing from widely different influences, the unique mixture contains elements of both polyrhythmic modern metal, electronica, grunge and classic rock. With a “Debut of the Year” nomination at the DanishMetal Awards in their trophy bag, a milky way of stars from the reviewers, and –last but not least – a gig as the opening act at Sweden Rock Festival 2008 as well asa concert on the Danish SPOT Festival 2009 on the concert list, BOIL, whoseroots are firmly planted in Aarhus, is certainly not standing outside the spotlight on the Danish rock scene. Back in 2004, the common ground for the five guys was to mix genres like metal, grunge, and progressive rock. The sound on the debut album "Vessel" (2007) most definitely lives up to this ambition and resulted in appraisals from the reviewers – nationally as well as internationally –and the album earned statements such as “Most professional release of the year” (Musikgeil) and “One of the year’s best albums” (Noise.fi). BOIL is now ready to release their second album “A New Decay”, which clearly shows that the band has personalized their style and sound a lot more, and, in many ways, the new album is harder yet more melodicand catchy than the debut. BOIL has produced and mixed the album themselves, while Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Mnemic, Halford) did the mastering. Unlike most other hardrock and metal bands, BOIL’s lyrical universe requires quite a lot of attention from the listener. Most ofthe lyrics on the album are multi-layered and require the listener to think for themselves in order to enjoy the full output of the underlying messages. But it’s worth the effort, as several very interesting themes are raised in the lyrics. One ofthese themes is the modern tendency of politicians, the media, religious groups, organizations etc. to rely heavily upon spin – often merely for a strict personal gain - thereby making it hard for the public to tell facts from fiction. BOIL describes and invokes images in the lyrics without agitating for a specific political doctrine, but rather for a collective, mental wake-up call. BOIL’s music matches the reflective lyrical universe, and even though the music is both raw and edgy it contains excellent melodies and catchy choruses – and, furthermore, it is spiced up with numerous technical details and tempo changes as well as built-up passages. “A New Decay” ends with a dark, melancholic, fragile track displaying lots of electronica, and this shows that BOIL is not only difficult to define but also a complex band in constant movement.