If you thought Krav Boca was just another band playing by the rules, “Heretic” will blow that notion to smithereens. A rebellious blend of hardcore’s fury, rap’s raw storytelling, and enough metal to armor a tank.
“Heretic” claws at fixed genres, welding hardcore and rap into something abrasive, raw, and unsettling. A live lineage of 500 concerts across Europe—Greece, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Morocco—has shaped a show pulsing with masked rappers, guitar-drums-mandolin, and aerial sparks.
Their performances form a ritual where crowds join the act, and “Live free or die” echoes without pause.
This album shifts toward metal, abrasive punk, and drill-infused rap textures. Think the electricity of the prodigy jabbing at mobb deep’s hostility, with piano solos and black metal murmurs drifting into the mix. Collaborations with ruby my dear, dr critical, dowan nagel, and francis caste sharpen the edges of this 14-track piece.
The band sat down with us for a full track by track rundown. Check it out below.
“Heretic” and “Panik” slam urban and politic al tension. “Chiens dla KS” and “Mortier” grind trap and metal surfaces. “Trauma” and “Post-Trauma” drill through mental landscapes. “Makita,” “Fanatik,” and “Brasier” spark industrial and electronic storms. “GM2L” seethes against state violence. “Mortem” and “Post-Mortem” haunt with black metal undertones. Every piece a blade, every note a fracture.
The “Heretic” tour schedule extended through diverse European cities—Rennes, Caen, Nantes, Ramonville, Bordeaux, Grenoble, Le Val d’Ajol, Vitry, Dunkerque, Nevers, Auxerre, Villeurbanne, Bagnols sur Cèze, Istres, St Germain en Laye, Bonn, Hamburg, Berlin, Hannover, Metz, Dresden, Praha, and Wien—marking a chain of crowded clubs and underground venues.
As of December 10th, only a handful of shows remain, with upcoming stops this month, and more coming up in February. Each stop promises settings that reflect KRAV BOCA’s wild performance: close-quarter stages, raw acoustics, and crowds pressed right against a maelstrom. Jump in if you’re near!
Track by Track
Words by the band
Heretic
Hammering infrabass, thundering synthetic drums, industrial distortions. As extreme as unifying, Heretic is a punk Anthem for chaos and powerful pits. Savage, intense and relentless, the chorus is a real detonation inviting every crowd to raise the dirt.
Panik
In the midst of the chaos, the Krav Boca team emerges from the world of squats and lands in the city. It’s gentrified, vitrified, clean, flush with money, but already dead. Punk storytelling brought to life by Brussels-based IMOV Studios.
Chiens dla KS
With several members of Krav Boca on the mic (including their sound engineer), this track explores different shades of hostility, fanning the sonic tension between trap and metal aesthetics. A nocturnal ramble braving the dangers of the night, after the metro has closed and the streetlights have gone out.
Mortier
Mortier starts whithin an heavily agressive distorted guitar riff, introducing an insurrection anthem. Frantic and raging, the sharpened verses of Krav Boca are sounding like deflagrations with hardtechno kicks sounding like pyrotechnical explosions.
The revolutionary match has been striked: the crowd ready to riot.
Trauma
Hypnotic and build into various aestetics from UK drill, Trap, post-rock into punk and black metal, Trauma’s like a musical UFO. The engraved french and greek lyrics build an unexpected progression who embraces the echoes of tormented spirits from an asylum.
A schizophrenic song where strangeness and sublime becomes one.
Post-Trauma
After the ordeal of trauma, it’s time to rebuild. Post-trauma is a veritable nightmare conveying the anguish of the memory.
Makita
Echoing his spectacular on-stage performance at the controls of his grinder, Krav Boca transports us into a noisy industrial universe of machine noise, thick smoke and sparks. It’s a fresco of sound, with electronic inspirations leaning towards drum’n’bass.
A perfect playground for electronic music producer Ruby My Dear, who was involved in the production of the track.
Fanatik
Between drill and black metal inspirations, Krav Boca marry new sonic contrasts with Athens beatmaker Critical. Is this a track associated with trap culture, or with metal culture? Each listener will make up his or her own mind.
Brasier
A true tribute to the electro-rock culture developed by The Prodigy, this interlude is a crescendo-shaped blast, combining the instrumental quartet of guitar, bass, drums and mandolin that forged the Krav Boca sound signature.
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GM2L
Faced with the violence of the french authorities following the actions of environmental activists at Sainte-Soline (March the 23th, 2023), Krav Boca denounces the use of an extremely dangerous disencralling grenade: the GM2L.
A veritable weapon of war designed to cause serious injury. In this harrowing storytelling, the two singers take us to the heart of a demonstration to protect the environment, transformed into a battlefield under the arsenal of the mobile gendarmerie.
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Mortem
The suspended introductive notes from Mortem can evoke the tension of the nineties Queensbridge rap, a melancholic song mixing various flows with fluidity.
An intense progression where dark lyrics raises the temperature before introducing rock sonorities mutating into a vibrant black metal climax. Original and previously unseen, the song marks the spirits with its emotional force.
Post-Mortem
To close the album and follow Mortem, Krav Boca develop a soaring fresco, a dream with mystical accents under the accumulation of layers of sound frequencies. An original composition for the band, crossing the iron with celestial notes, where the classical piano of the great concert pianist Dowan Nagel resurfaces.
