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COFFINS
Sinister Oath

Reprise (2024)
Rating: 8/10

For their sixth full-length studio album, Japanese psychopaths Coffins drag your sorry arse into a blender and liquefy your bones to mulch. It was on Valentine’s Day when I heard the wonderful chimes of ‘Spontaneous Rot’ and I just knew that Coffins would once again obliterate all in their path.

Like a hideous mix of Mortician, Autopsy and Napalm Death’s track ‘Scum’, ‘Spontaneous Rot’ churns, gurgles and boils with a gory groove to die for. When the pace quickens the gallop still conjures nightmarish images of being pursued through a river of sticky, congealed blood as the drums let loose and vocals spew slurry. Meanwhile, the foul drumming on ‘Things Infestation’ sounds like someone having their skull caved in on a formation of jagged rocks before a weird solo penetrates the soupy haze of doom-cranked deathliness.

It doesn’t matter how maniacally hyper the Japanese tribe gets, the sound is always coated in mould as riffs succumb to zombiefication, drums crust with silt, and the bass lines clog with sediment. The band is so reliable in its repulsive nature; the title track devilishly grins like some axe wielding psychopath drooling over his victims as the putrid chunks of dismal mayhem are created by the frothing riffage.

Coffins even finds time for some Swedish d-beat sort of kick with ‘Chain’ before ‘Everlasting Spiral’ oozes with sporadic riffs before drums slowly nod to the syrupy fuzz. Elsewhere, ‘Forced Disorder’ picks up in punky fashion while the vocals act as swamp slop. ‘Headless Monarch’ starts as a mid-tempo heap before picking up the pace in infectious fashion, and the hissing slog of ‘Domains Of Black Miasma’ lopes to the lead of Satoshi’s morbid drum patterns.

There’s nothing here that escapes from the Coffins template; it’s rhythmic doom-drenched death metal that the dead can lollop around to after crawling from their graves. Exactly what I expected and exactly what I needed.

Neil Arnold

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