COFFINS / SECOND TO NONE - Nine Cocoons Of Dens To F split review

COFFINS / SECOND TO NONE - Nine Cocoons Of Dens To F split 

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions




Split releases are like a buy one get another one free item and hope for the best. You pick one up for the band you know and like. Then you hope the flip-side is decent as well. It's a fuckin gamble to say the least. Listening to this feels like I got a two sided coin. 


Let's start with COFFINS a band from Japan that everyone in the death doom fan base should know. I got into them in 2008 with their Buried Death full length. Yeah me and a thousand or so other people. The band was around for a few years already but that release came out on 20 Buck Spin and the hype machine was inviting. Plus I already had the split they did with CIANIDE from a year before. 


Since then the band's brand of sludgey death doom has been consistent. On here their two cuts sound like items borrowed from CIANIDE's kit bag. That's not a bad thing when you're a fan. By the way COFFINS has a full length coming out on Relapse in a month. Now I must admit when the third cut started I didn't know it was SECOND TO NONE, who also hail from Japan. Their brand of extreme is similar to COFFINS. 


This my first time hearing SECOND TO NONE, who are a five piece act and have been around for a decade now. Their two cuts on here are long drawn out exercises in old school death doom with bestial vocals, crushing riffs, decent enough soloing which slices more than tears. They definitely have some sludgey doom influence as well. It's good stuff. If this were a match for the Japanese title I'd have to say the challengers SECOND TO NONE beat the champs. 


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