COFFINS - Perpetual Penance

June 12, 2015, 8 years ago

(Horror Pain Gore Death Productions)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 8.0

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COFFINS - Perpetual Penance

Sometimes I sit around thinking about how the only thing better than a new Coffins full-length would be an outrageously long double-disc collection of their more raw material, the Japanese band's crusted-over doom/death working its best magic when the needles are in the red and when the torture never stops. And here we have it, a 96-minute double-CD set of Coffins vinyl-only and material from splits, and it sounds like Coffins, and it's long, and the production is all over the map, and it ain't always pretty.

None of which sound like glowing endorsements, all of which are glowing endorsements: Coffins' sound is pure doom/death with a crusty layer of ugly punk on top, and here that shines through loud and clear, the tunes a mix of fun, grooving Celtic Frost worship and pure slug sludge, a clashing of raw death and crust punk, and it rarely sounds heavier than it does here. It's overkill with a runtime this long, to be sure, but it's the greatest kind of overkill there is.



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