I usually don't give a shit about tribute albums, but the single-minded, fetishistic vision behind Coffins's Sewage Sludgecore Treatment is enough to pull me in to this record's tarpit hero-worship. This five-song Ep from the Japanese doom/death/sludge beasts originally came out on Cd via the French grindcore label Bones Brigade, and is now available on wax courtesy of Stateside blast-merchants Haunted Hotel. The concept is simple: Coffins picked out five songs from some of their favorite slo-mo sludge bands, all doubtlessly big influences on Coffins's particular brand of guttural, graveyard-crawling death metal, and translate 'em back through their ultra-heavy barbaric attack.

The lineup of bands covered here looks like the track list off of an old Bovine comp; you get Coffinized renditions of Buzzoven's "Broken", Eyehategod's classic hate-anthem "Sister Fucker", Noothgrush's ultra-brief blast of noisy chaos "Evazan", Grief's "I Hate You", and Iron Monkey's "Black Aspirin". Coffins keep things pretty faithful to the originals, though with their drooling caveman screams and tectonic riffcrush, the heaviness is definitely ratcheted up a couple of levels. It's on the second side of the record that Coffins really make the covers their own, first with a grueling version of the Grief song that keeps all of the original's nihilistic, human-hating vibe intact while transforming it into something much more rabid sounding, and then with the equally abject take on Iron Monkey's "Black Aspirin", which closes the record with an agonizing crawl through the filthiest depths of soul-rot. Not really essential for casual Coffins fans, but hardcore deathsludge disciples will get a kick out of these decomposing blasts of drug-addled magma-metal. The black and white jacket sports some wonderfully filthy artwork by someone named Viral Lord, and the record comes on black vinyl, limited edition of course.