To offend me takes special talent, talent that knows no boundaries to how far the one can push idea of indecency. People who believe there is nothing sacred, no subject matter too taboo that they cannot molest it. These people play in the XXX Maniak. The cover art alone on this made me ashamed to have the CD in my house, but then hearing XXX Maniak's songs brought me shame to think it could be promising. Sexist porno/gore grind that makes AC look like a Tooth and Nail act. They'll certainly never play ABC No Rio. Napalm Death shakes their collective heads.
Coffins, who drew my attention to disc, offer little to nothing new on The Cracks of Doom. By little, I mean the title track, “Cracks of Doom,” which only a completest would long for, treading the same path of most of their other releases. Slow, heavy, sludgy by way of dirty distortion: we've heard it before, but better. By nothing new, I mean a cover of Cathedral's “Ebony Tears.” Not straying too far from the original, the track only serves to show new listeners where Coffins got their influences.
Waste of money, and waste of time, period.
