Coffins + Bones + Ilsa + Seven Sisters of Sleep

Death metal is a more diverse genre than you might think. While a certain wing of the genre fetishizes finger-busting technicality, another is all about shaggy, stubbornly plodding groove. File Coffins among that latter company; fans of Asphyx, Autopsy, Obituary and other staunch death-metal primitivists will find lots to love in this long-running Japanese crew's chugging anthems, well documented on last year's The Fleshland.