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(20 Buck Spin, 2008)
This is a dirty and disgusting metal album, and I fucking love it! Taking their cues from Celtic Frost, Autopsy and Winter, Coffins play a brooding and doom based style of death metal that reeks of rotting flesh and coffin dust. Few bands manage to capture the magic of early Celtic Frost and an era when death metal was bringing in doom metal influences with horrific results. This is one of the few and hands down the best doom influence death metal band around right now. If you like your riffs slimy and coated in crust this is definitely your kind of album.
I'm not sure if some people would have a problem calling this death metal as it definitely doesnt sound much like what most people consider death metal these days. Personally I say that is a good thing. While there are numerous death metal bands I do enjoy these days, I still find myself going back to the classics of the genre. This is an album that visits those days and gives fans of early death metal some new music to add to our collection of classics. Play this back to back with Acts of the Unspeakable and you will see just how well this fits into the classic death metal sound. Another point I should bring up after calling this death metal is that this definitely isnt a fast album. This is doom inspired through and through, but the grimy feel, gruff vocals and apocalyptic dreariness firmly plant this band in the death metal genre. If you are a fan of Celtic Frost and Autopsy this is an album that you will feel was written specifically for you.
There was a time when death metal was more about having an eerie vibe then it was about the number of notes played or playing at the fastest speed possible. The vast majority of newer bands fail to convey any sense of darkness or the horrific vibe that helped distance early death metal from thrash metal, but Coffins could be considered masters of their craft and match the dark vibe of early death metal perfectly. If you are a fan of dirty and dark music I cant recommend this album highly enough. It is well written, armed with a suitably grimy production and easily one of the best metal albums you will hear this year.
http://www.myspace.com/intothecoffin
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