AN NCS PREMIERE: COFFIN CURSE — “REEKING FILTH OF AGES”

When is a curse also a blessing? The answer is Coffin Curse, the demon-spawned Chilean death metal band whose thoroughly evil new album The Continuous Nothing is now racing hell-for-leather toward an April 22nd release by Memento Mori.

We were blessed four years ago to premiere a song from this duo’s mortifying debut album Ceased to Be, and now we get to make another premiere today for the new album, presenting “Reeking Filth of Ages“.

With one brief exception we’ll come to, this new song moves at maniacal speed, and although it’s technically very impressive and precisely executed, it still feels like it’s on the verge of exploding into fiery wreckage at any moment.

It also feels like an intersection of horrors, some supernatural and some man-made, like the confluence of a mechanized human war-zone and the emergence of those hideous Lovecraftian tentacles on the album’s cover.

It’s the percussive attacks that create the war zone, with the drums and some of the riffage blasting like automatic weaponry at an overheating rate of fire, converting bodies into a fine red mist, or the drums pumping like the pistons of charging tanks.

And it’s the bulk of the riffing that conjures images of horrific tentacles feverishly writhing, as the guitars whine and whir, punctuated by brazen and blaring chords, creating feelings of horrid ecstasy and indomitable cruelty.

In the mid-section of the song, the mayhem subsides, yielding to drawn-out chords and rumbling drums, but it’s a bit of a head-fake, because what soon arrives is a spectacularly fleet-fingered guitar solo that’s the most demented and diabolical feature of the entire track.

Not to be submerged in the midst of all the song’s super-heated convulsions and brutalizing firepower, the sewer-deep vocals gurgle and growl with grisly grit, and screech like a demon being strangled, adding to the music’s macabre monstrosity.

And with that, prepare to get your blood rushing and hit Play on the player below:

Memento Mori will release a CD version of the album, which its PR materials describe with reference to “the influences of Morbid Angel, Deicide, and Immolation during their turn-of-the-’90s heydays, as well as the viciousness of founding fathers Possessed, Massacre, and Chile’s Pentagram“. For more info, check the links below.

That ghastly cover art you see at the top of this article is the work of Daniel Hermosilla (Nox Fragor Art).

Below, we’re also including a stream of the first single off the album, “Bacchanal of the Mortal“. It’s no less adrenaline-fueled or explosively berserk than the song we’ve just premiered. If anything, it’s even more insane and immolating, but it’s also technically jaw-dropping and a ruthless bone-smasher that will work your neck.

MEMENTO MORI:
http://memento-mori.es/
https://www.facebook.com/memento.mori.label

COFFIN CURSE:
https://coffincurse.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/coffincurse