Coffins - Buried Death
Posted on June 24, 2008 at 8:00 am by admin
Japan just seems to be churning out underground doom releases like you wouldn’t believe. Even with all these bands putting out splits, or just tons of material in general, they’re still managing to get something just above cult status.
Coffins manages to stick together a strange guitar tone that combines the double-distortion of Entombed with some old-school styled doom fuzz. The result of that is a sticky morass that seems to slow the band down as they attempt to run as fast as possible out of this decaying swamp, only to be slowed down by a trudging mass of liquified bodies, left to rot for years. Also found in this disgusting heap are the lost remains of stoner rock, and of course the almighty sludge of Eyehategod, and just barely a hint of Celtic Frost.
The only downside I found with the album were the vocals of Uchino. His low growl doesn’t have a tone that discerns itself from many standard death metal glass garglers, and the rhythm of the delivery lacked some life, and only completely utilitarian. The much rarer shrieking of Koreeda was quite the opposite; reeking of insanity and self-abuse, as though he had actually been in the process of being tortured.
Bands these days have become much smarter with production, so while “Buried Death” is on the raw side, the sound pouring off is thick, low and powerful.
There are many different kinds of heavy, and while I typically think of some of the heaviest metal as being comparable to being crushed by large objects, such as say being hit by an 18-wheeler, the general feeling you get from Coffins is that of being at the bottom of a lake, covered by water so polluted that it’s become thick, almost from motor oil, having the water pressure cause your body to collapse. All good signs of course.
Released June 24th, 2008
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