Portland, Oregon-based death metal quintet COFFIN ROT has completed work on their long-awaited second studio full-length, Dreams Of The Disturbed. The band is preparing for its official release on September 20th through their allies at Maggot Stomp, who today unveils its details including the lead single, cover art, preorders, and more.
Formed in 2017 by brothers Hayden and Derek Johnson – vocals and drums, respectively – alongside guitarist Tre Wilz, COFFIN ROT quickly recorded and and released their first demo, following it a year later with another, as well as a split with Chicago death dealers, Molder. In 2019, with the addition of bassist Brandon Martinez-Woodall, the band quickly set out to record their full-length debut, A Monument To The Dead, The album was co-released by Rotted Life Records (USA) and Blood Harvest (EU) and was met with critical acclaim in the underground. The album was an instant classic; a trend-free synthesis of various eternal strains of death metal, fusing Grave’s proud and powerful surge, Cianide’s sewer-drenched doom-death, the blackened passages of Immolation’s early works, and a host of other equally stout influences. However, it’s the way COFFIN ROT was able to rearrange these parameters into something horrific that made the album immediately memorable.
Moving into the age of the pandemic, COFFIN ROT began a new era under the Maggot Stomp banner, joining the ranks of Frozen Soul, Sanguisugabogg, Tribal Gaze, and others. Following the release of their first single on 7″ format – “Reduced To Visceral Sludge” b/w a cover of Sepultura’s “Troops Of Doom” – the band began working on their second LP with the addition of fifth member and second guitarist Jonathan Quintana (Decrepisy, Thanamagus, Ascended Dead).
Now, COFFIN ROT prepares to deliver Dreams Of The Disturbed, an album that builds on the elements of death established in the band’s previous works but has diverged into something far darker, far more sinister, and much heavier than the work before it. Pulling influences from the technical guitar prowess of Vile-era Cannibal Corpse as well as mixing elements of the more chaotic dissonant and blackened chord structures of Dead Congregation and aspects of Death’s melodicism and guitar virtuoso, the band can continue to proudly showcase that while wearing their influences on their sleeves. It’s the ability to take these influences and craft songs that will plague your mind with visions of the perverse and deranged, leaving you hungry for more.
Dreams Of The Disturbed was recorded at The Underworld Studio with Charlie Koryn (Ascended Dead, Decrepisy), mixed and Mastered at Subterranean Watchtower Studios with Damien Herring (Horrendous), and completed with cover art by Wyrmwalk.
Alongside the posting of the Dreams Of The Disturbed cover art, track listing, and lead single, the band declares, “‘Perverted Exhumation is COFFIN ROT’s first love song featuring our favorite Canuck, Damon MacDonald (Dying Remains, Detherous). A morbid tale of a man struggling with his necrophilic appetites, this track is brutal, in your face and the perfect introduction to our new record. Enjoy the morbid dreams of the disturbed.”
Stream COFFIN ROT’s “Perverted Exhumation” now at THIS LOCATION.
Maggot Stomp will release Dreams Of The Disturbed on CD, LP, MC, and digital formats on September 20th. Find preorders at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Additional previews of the album will be slabbed over the weeks ahead.
Dreams Of The Disturbed Track Listing:
1. Slaughtered Like Swine
2. Perverted Exhumation
3. Lurking In The Cemetery
4. Unmarked, Shallow Grave
5. Living Cremation
6. Hands Of Death
7. Predator Becomes Prey
8. The Howling Man
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