Katimavik86
I bought the cassette after the 1st listen - still come back to it often. Great job on the cassette too.
Favorite track: Mechanical Separation.
David Fischer
Grim and fierce OSDM. If you're into this kind of music, this one is a must-buy! Great release, simply put.
Favorite track: Saw Blade Suicide.
BLOOD HARVEST RECORDS, in conspiracy with ROTTED LIFE, is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Portland, Oregon's COFFIN ROT, A Monument to the Dead, on CD, vinyl LP formats and Cassette.
Formed in 2017, COFFIN ROT quickly set to work on their first demo, following it a year later with another one as well as a split with comrades Molder. Wasting no time, now comes the power-trio's full-length debut, A Monument to the Dead, displaying their swift mastery of the Metal of Death. Aptly titled, A Monument to the Dead is a timeless and trend-free synthesis of various eternal strains of death metal: Grave's proud 'n' powerful surge, Cianide's sewer-drenched doom-death, the blackened corridors of early Immolation, and a whole host of other equally stout influences. However, it's the manner in which COFFIN ROT are able to rearrange these parameters into something horrific and, above all, immediately memorable: while by no means sticking to predictable verse/chorus rock-music structures, A Monument to the Dead retains a strangely hummable catchiness whilst remaining resolutely and utterly DARK and DEATHLY. Adding to the album's potency is a clear-yet-crushing production that's the epitome of powerful - and one which is richly analog, ably highlighting COFFIN ROT's very human (and very literal) execution.
Completed by dank 'n' disgusting artwork courtesy of Skadvaldur, COFFIN ROT deliver A Monument to the Dead - are you among those doomed souls?
credits
released October 18, 2019
Lineup:
Hayden Johnson - Vocals
Tre Guertner - Guitars
Brandon Martinez-Woodall - Bass
Derek Johnson - Drums
Recorded and mixed - Charlie Koryn at The Underworld Studios in Portland, OR.
Mastering and additional mixing - Stephen Hoffman.
Album cover-art by Skadvaldur.
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This is about as good as OSDM gets, to be honest. Blood Incantation are quickly building a pretty flawless discography of modern classics and every release just improves and evolves their sound. Stellar stuff (literally). Colin Kauffman
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Some excellent, raw, classic-sounding death metal that manages to still sound fresh. This is one hell of a debut LP and what I believe to be an ESSENTIAL purchase when it comes to the new resurgence of old school death metal. klflick1980