Sentient Ruin is honored to partake in the abominable birth of dutch extreme doom experiment Coffin Lurker, whose overwhelmingly crushing debut LP "Foul and Defiled" is set to be released June 7 2021 on LP/MC and digital formats worldwide.
Formed by Maurice De Jong AKA Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues, Cloak of Altering, De Magia Veterum, Dodenbezweerder etc.), and Rene Aquarius (Cryptae, Dead Neanderthals, Imperial Cult, Plague Organ etc.), Coffin Lurker is a repulsive experiment begotten unto a perverse delusion of ushering doom metal beyond extremes of heaviness and horror it has never before seen or fathomed. Overwhelming and abominable in its every aspect, on their hideous debut LP "Foul and Defiled" the dutch terror-doom duo set out on a mission of terrifying extremism to take doom metal to its most harrowing consequences, crossing every threshold of extreme known, to materialize a humongous slow moving nightmare of paralyzing and horrific doom metal horror that will flatten the listener and devour them inside a nauseating void. Emanating with a monstrous and oppressive aura of total death and decay, "Foul and Defiled" is a gargantuan sepulchral abomination of subterranean megaton doom rising from an underworld of ageless and unnameable death and suffering that sonically aims to re-evoke the hideous and death-obsessed immensity of other underground extreme/experimental doom abominations like Moss and Grave Upheaval, while taking the heinous formula, if possible, even beyond its own already incomprehensible and remote confines of sanity.
A taste of the destabilizing album has been brought to us via an exclusive premiere of the track “Of Suffering” at iconic underground metal blog Last Rites, who in reflecting on the albums absurd heaviness and ugliness have aptly remarked that“ ‘Foul And Defiled’ stylistically nests itself snugly between the juggernaut crawl of death/doom, the ritualistic atmosphere of primitive black metal, and the dirging, somber tones of funeral doom. This skeleton is fully cloaked in static nightmares, lacing the claustrophobic soundscape with subtle pops and etchings that will have the listener jumping at shadows for its full duration.“ - you can read the full feature and stream the track HERE.
Coffin Lurker is the rogue brainchild of dutch musicians Maurice De Jong AKA Mories (Gnaw Their Tongues, Cloak of Altering, De Magia Veterum, Dodenbezweerder etc.), and Rene Aquarius (Cryptae, Dead Neanderthals, Imperial Cult, Plague Organ etc.). As seen with their preexisting respective projects and the natural inclination of the musicians involved, the connecting thread in Coffin Lurker is also pure and unbridled experimentalism and attempting to break new ground by reshaping and reinterpreting familiar sounds through the lens of near homicidal extremism and deviant deconstructionism. In this sense the duo set out in a perverse plan to take doom metal to extremes it has never before seen, by adding ulterior shapes and dimensions to the foundations already set by doom metal’s most extreme bands ever, namely entities like Grave Upheaval, Moss, Corrupted, Hell, Meth Drinker, Tyranny, Sunn O))), Encoffination, Primitive Man, along with more experimental and outlandish extreme metal entities like Ride For Revenge, Profanatica and Void Meditation Cult. Extending doom’s path into a dark future unknown, in Coffin Lurker everything got more extreme in every aspect possible: atmospheres more antihuman and overwhelming, guitars more downtuned, layered and crushing than ever before, tempos crawling at the edge of oblivion and nearly frozen to a suffocating stasis, soundscapes and song structures overbearingly cold and oppressive slowed down to a mechanical aural entombment reminiscent of certain extreme strains of industrial music, death-doom vocals reaching inhuman low registers bellowed out from guts turned inside out, and of course steeping piles of hatred, nihilism, disgust, misanthropy and all-encompassing negativity to round out an experiment of both familiar yet aberrant and futuristic traits. On these premises during 2020 the band patiently and carefully crafted their debut LP aptly titled "Foul and Defiled" which in its inhumanly overbearing traits of extremism and experimentalism was surely destined to cross path with Sentient Ruin, which will issue the abominable work on June 7 2021 on LP/MC and digital formats worldwide.