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COFFIN ROT
Dreams Of The Disturbed

Maggot Stomp (2024)
Rating: 7.5/10

The song ‘Hands Of Death’ is a fine example of how Portland, Oregon-based death metallers Coffin Rot have evolved in the five years since their debut full-length outing, A Monument To The Dead. With its chunky stop-start opening to its melodious soloing, this is a memorable and fleshed out composition which sums up this accessible and meaty return.

Never reaching the maddening deluges of, say, Autopsy, Coffin Rot – even with pacier segments – are rather restrained but seemingly comfortable in their beefy trades. The riffs throughout this album act as hefty juggernauts that are well controlled and orchestrated, which result in a downtuned delivery that is coated in sludge.

Although relatively simplistic, the album is organic and grounded, and above all fluid in its fusty framework of fermented mulch bolstered by the grisly vocal growls. With each track the band dishes up various scenarios whether in short form hammering haste (‘Slaughtered Like Swine’ and ‘Perverted Exhumation’) or mid-range morbidity (‘Lurking In The Cemetery’), so there are a lot of meaty tones here to tuck into. My personal favourites are ‘Unmarked, Shallow Grave’ with its wild and haphazard axe work, and the macabre ‘Predator Becomes Prey’ with its mix of tempo.

This is all good, gruesome stuff from a band which introduced themselves to me via their 2018 self-titled demo. Still going strong, Coffin Rot suffocates and batters you in equal measure.

Neil Arnold

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