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Coffins formed in Tokyo, Japan in 1996, anchoring their sound in the lumbering intersection of doom metal and death metal, with heavily downtuned guitars, slow tempos, and gore-obsessed lyrical themes. After a period of demos and splits, the band signed to Razorback Records and released their debut studio album Mortuary in Darkness in 2005, following it with The Other Side of Blasphemy (2006) and Buried Death (2008) on 20 Buck Spin. They have maintained a prolific release schedule across over twenty split releases alongside four full-lengths.
Philadelphia black metal project Coffins Across Hiroshima conjure cold, desolate soundscapes built on tremolo-driven guitars and bleak atmosphere steeped in apocalyptic imagery.
Illinois black metal entity Coffintape traffic in raw, lo-fi darkness — primitive production and harsh, stripped-down song craft place them firmly in the underground tape-trading tradition.
Blackened death metal act from Warsaw, formed in 2019. Coffinwood crafts dark, morbid extreme metal from the Polish capital.
Indianapolis's Coffinworm built a cult following with their caustic mix of black metal, doom, and sludge — bleak, punishing records like IV.I.VIII place them among the Midwest's most uncompromising acts.
Seattle's Cofgod blend doom, gothic metal, and stoner metal into heavy, atmospheric journeys that balance introspection with crushing weight, draped in the grey Pacific Northwest gloom.
COG deliver a corrosive fusion of death and sludge metal — downtuned, grinding riffs collide with visceral intensity in music that prioritizes ugliness and weight above all else.
Black-death metal band from London, formed in 2019. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the English capital.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Essen, Germany, formed in 2024. They bring fresh, punishing extremity to the Ruhr Valley underground.
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