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Coffins - Buried Death

Heavy as fuck. - 85%

Foundapathy, December 22nd, 2008

First word that comes to my mind after hearing this is "heavy". Holy shit, this band is heavy. Punishing, even. Imagine being between two walls that are about to close in on you when you have Bono going on at you about AIDS and Africa. It's a schizophrenic album that just keeps going and going 'til one just can't take anymore. That's what I love about this album, the dominance it has over the listener, you know you're in trouble but you just can't stop listening.

Coffins are considered doom metal, I don't really know why this is the case. I consider them sludge with brutal death metal vocals. Maybe they are considered doom metal because of the atmosphere they create? if that's the reason, I'm 100 percent with it. I understand the band is influenced by the death metal scene, bands like Funerus and Taste (Jpn) and the sludge/stoner/doom metal scene, bands like Orange Goblin and Saint Vitus. What Coffins manage to do is blend both of their influences together and create a record that sounds both brutal and original.

Uchino's vocals are very low and stay this way throughout the album. He has certain flair in his low vocals, I don't know what it is but it demands attention. Koreeda, the bass player, adds the occasional scream vocals that seem like they are used as another instrument rather than another vocal range. This makes the band more interesting as it adds to the atmosphere. The guitar tone of Uchino is thick, he doesn't try to be technical or anything like that, just delivers strong and heavy riffs.

I recommend checking out this album if you're into death metal, doom metal or anything heavy.

Water-Pressure Heavy, Sticky And Goey - 70%

Shirt_Guy, June 26th, 2008

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 a decaying swamp, only to be slowed down by a trudging mass of liquified dead 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. I also found the production of “Buried Death” to be notable as well, as while it might be on the raw side, the sound pouring off is thick, low and powerful.

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 by belting out the simplistic chants. The much rarer high 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.

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.

Originally posted at www.waytooloud.com