Coward Punch - Satan Is Our Liberator, We Deserve Freedom Without Shame


First thing's first. That album title is amazing. "Satan is Our Liberator, We Deserve Freedom Without Shame?" Come on. Poetry.

Now that we've got that out of the way, Coward Punch are a relatively new doom band from Sydney, Australia. Like (DOLCH), Coward Punch straddle industrial and doom, but where (DOLCH) took the formula of driving drum machine beats and heavy riffs in the direction of something pretty and ethereal, Coward Punch move in a grimier, uglier direction. While there are truly gorgeous ambient passages in these songs, the bulk of the album is thick sludge riffs with throat ripping vocals layered over them. An obvious comparison would be something like Godflesh, but the band they actually most remind me of is Hyatari, the underrated drone/doom band from the early-2000s, albeit with some screaming vox in the mix. I'm not always a fan of the mixture of industrial and sludge (the aforementioned Godflesh doesn't really do much for me), but the songwriting and atmosphere on this album are so top-notch that I've listened to it four times in the last two days. It's also PWYW on Bandcamp, so I strongly recommend picking it up. Note, also, that the profits from the release go to a worthy cause, so consider dropping some cash on it.



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