Similar to most Japanese bands, Coffins also dug down to the very core of the selected music style like in case of an investigating research. Than they've recreated the style by using up it's main essence. The advantage of this method is that it's easier to avoid direct references to other bands, but the same time the style determination remains quite evident. It also requiers basic themes, and at this point the actual trend and the ambitions of an old school perspective have met. The band suddenly became one of the most extreme death/doom bands by their minimalist repetitive themes, very noisy sound and extended song lenghts; a main view, that's also not far from funeral doom. The difference is the lack or smaller role of the atmosphere. Of course an atmosphere is also possible to create by noise, but in this case it's not an emotional or sad/broken approach, but something endlessly demoralizing mixed with a putrid impression, that's definitely something that not many can or want to relate to. The intro track is a perfect example for that, but still it has depths: the most demoralizing and terrified approach of the black end. If we think about the oldest and less popular death/doom classics like Winter, Sempiternal Deathreign, Goatlord, Cianide or Esoteric, who determined the style the most authentically, Coffins' music absulutely fits into the line. The band kept operating with basic themes even at more intense songs, that are musically closer to punk than to metal, but the strong sound distortion, deep growling vocal and the endlessly obscure feeling easily makes it unnoted. In summary: "Mortuary in Darkness" was a strong debut that brought some familiar, but long lost feeling into death/doom metal, that was also able to match the actual trends.
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