Coffins - Buried Death (2008)

   As one of the most nerve wrecking death/doom bands, Coffins represents a traditional direction of musical extremity based on strictly old school influences and overwhelming heaviness. But the same time their music also fits to the main tendencies of the late '00s/early '10s when musical minimalism and the importance of the sound (mostly based on distortion experiments) was brought into focus.
   Since the beginning they're using the same simple recipe at every album that somehow never can fail and never gets boring. Probably the best aspect of this recipe was their third full-lenght album "Buried Death". The excellence of Coffins lies in simplicity. There's really nothing new in what they do, but their performance was able to give a new meaning to these good old things. They're mostly operating with very slow, repetitive themes and at speed ups their music never gets more complex than an ordinary punk song. Still their strongly distorted, noisy sound and the assisting animalistic deep growls are increasing the heaviness of the main view in such an extreme way, that it makes their music harder to go into. This form of pure noisy heaviness could be more like a challenge for ordinary doom or punk fans to listen, than enjoyable entertainment. Plus they have never been famous of being in a hurry, so the endlessly extended slow downs having a monotonous and therefore very demoralizing effect. There's no break from the constantly sick, mournful feeling, the stench of death haunts over the album in full-lenght. It's a quite authentic and probably the most compromise-less form of the genre. A real masterpiece.