### Coffins: The other side of blasphemy

#### 10/08/10 || Daemonomania

I’m actually going to see Coffins live tonight at the Maryland Deathfest. By the time you read this, the MDF will have been long ago. And I may be dead as a result of metal, alcohol, and bromance overload. Mostly the bromance. If so, I would like to leave all my metal albums to IG, give everything else to my wife, and request that my unreleased songs be leaked slowly over time to give rise to he’s still alive and kickin’ it with 2Pac conspiracy theories.

While in the process of shuffling off this mortal coil, however, allow me to lay down a quick review for “The other side of blasphemy”. These rising suns of metal have obviously dive-bombed the U.S.S. Incantation several times. The sluggish and evil beating PA’s finest deliver so well was clearly a template for Uchino and his merry band. So if you’re looking for anything other than the occasional fast section arising from dark oceans of death/doom, look fucken elsewhere.

Coffins differ in several ways, though. They incorporate some great punky sections which add a lot of vigor to the zombified shuffle. Now if they’d only do it more often. Problematically the band decides to put their rotting head down and simply chug onward frequently. The opener, “Evil infection”, “Only corpse”, and cool instrumental outro “Rise” each have a hint of melody, a tempo change, or SOME aspect that adds spice. The rest is pretty indistinguishable. Not bad, not boner.

So the Coff-meisters are not busy reinventing the wheel. But they’re without a doubt creating a pleasant slice of the old-school for those of us craving the moribund. With wonderful cover art of Satanus performing an ad-hoc C-section and a track name like “Countless grave” (if its only one grave, counting it shouldn’t be too difficult), how can you go wrong?

- Information
- Released: 2006
- Label: Imperium Records
- Website: www.coffins.jp
- Band
- Uchino: vocals, guitars
- Koreeda: bass
- Ryo: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Blood and Bone
- 02. The Other Side of Blasphemy
- 03. Evil Infection
- 04. Destiny to Suffering
- 05. Countless Grave
- 06. Only Corpse
- 07. Rise