{"id":12764,"date":"2013-06-28T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=12764"},"modified":"2013-06-28T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T17:04:47","slug":"album-review-coffins-the-fleshland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-coffins-the-fleshland\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFINS – The Fleshland (2013) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

COFFINS
The Fleshland<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRelapse (2013)<\/span>
Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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These Japanese gore-mongers haven\u2019t released a full-length platter for a while. In fact, it\u2019s been five years since their 2008 Buried Death<\/em> opus, although some of their work, such as 2005\u2019s Mortuary In Darkness<\/em>, has seen a reissue more recently. Since 2008 however, they\u2019ve collaborated on a number of split 7\u201ds and dabbled in a couple of EPs, but it\u2019s good to have Coffins back with The Fleshland<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The quartet consists of Ryo on vocals, Uchino on guitar, Koreeda on bass and Satoshi on drums. Both Uchino and Koreeda like to try their hand at some of the vocals too, and so Coffins is quite a tour de force that combines old school styled gore-drenched death metal in the vein of Autopsy.<\/p>\n

I always imagined that Coffins would be the horrifying sound if ever Church Of Misery waded into deathly waters \u2013 the guitar sound here is very dirty, doom-laden and mostly mid-tempo. This, coupled with the gurgled vocals and sledgehammer drums, means that Coffins are most certainly of the vile variety.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, despite the crushing weight of tracks such as \u2018The Colossal Hole\u2019, this is no drone experience, far from it. Coffins are simply the sordid soundtrack to death and disgust, such is their repulsive sound.<\/p>\n

Album opener \u2018Here Comes Perdition\u2019 is a nightmarish blend of down-tuned guitars that wrench themselves out from the initial gory squelches and omissions. To say the vocals are guttural is an understatement, as they belong in some silted depot forever lined with crusty blood and stagnant phlegm, at once leaking out of the speakers like some vintage death metal machine that can never be cleansed of its stench.<\/p>\n

The Fleshland<\/em> boasts nine tracks which for the most part are intestinal removers of the highest degree, especially the raging fuzz of \u2018Hellbringer\u2019, which ups the pace, and the gloomy, mud-thick bellow of \u2018The Vacant Pale Vessel\u2019, which features a twisted riff over Satoshi\u2019s downbeat drum plod.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, we have my favourite track on the record, the clattering, rust bucket that is \u2018Rotten Disciples\u2019, which features some of the best drumming this side of hell\u2019s basement, and the psychotic chants of album closer \u2018Tormentopia\u2019, which is no doubt the bastard offspring of Church Of Misery and Autopsy such is its putrid quality. Although \u2018Rotten Disciples\u2019 is the album\u2019s thrashiest and punkiest cut on the flesh, the whole record refuses to let up until your skull is cracked and your battered brain is dripping all over the stereo.<\/p>\n

Coffins are clearly the new masters of the twisted and perverse, and their grotty mix of gory doom and impure death trudge will most certainly leave you vomiting for more.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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