I'm on 2.3 hours sleep and running on 3 PBRs and an AM crunch wrap. I feel about as disgusting as these 2 albums.
COFFINWORM - IV.I.VIII
I lived near (well, 3 hours away, but would make a weekend trip whenever I could) Indianapolis for several years. I have a few friends there and consider it a splendid city. There's a thriving music scene and you can find a band for just about every genre you can think of. Coffinworm, to be quite honest, I had no idea even existed until their debut came out in 2010 and it literally came out of nowhere. Just this mess of blackened doom saturated with screams and feedback everywhere. Enter now 2014 and they return with well, more of the same...BUT I couldn't have asked for anything more. What they've stepped up a lot this time was the vocals...D(ave?) has a remarkable speedtime of gutterals-to-screeches and delivers them in spades on this. Also, the overall feel of the album is downright disgusting. Like a weekend-binge, hungover-Monday-morning, haven't-showered-in-3-days, puke-crust-on-mouth disgusting. Just delving into all the evil, heinous, bad, life-ruining things men do to themselves and others. Play this over Disney movies.
COLTSBLOOD - INTO THE UNFATHOMABLE ABYSS
Skip across some water over to Liverpool and you'll find Coltsblood. The ex-bass payer from Conan's doom project....yea that's redundant. Anyway, it's nasty stuff. Definitely the Conan drone & chug is there, but they're more...doomy I guess? In a good way, if any of you dudes (or lady!) are reading this. Like, they're taking fragments from Asunder, Evoken or even Nortt at times and calling it their own. Impressive debut I'll say. Once you get the funds, fly over here and melt some American faces off. We'll forever be grateful.
Doom on, Monday...
