Penny Coffin have released Transitory Fragmentation, their first album, on 6 November and without a label.
Five years went into getting here. The Scottish band have put out four EPs since 2021 and a compilation that gathered the first two of them, which is a long apprenticeship for a death metal band in a scene where the debut album usually arrives sooner and thinner.
Ten tracks, a little under forty five minutes, and two of them are called REDACTED1 and REDACTED2, which tells you how seriously the band take the idea of an interlude. The longest is Industrial God Complex at just over seven minutes; the rest sit between three and five, where this kind of writing works.
Daniel Paton and Joseph Edward Kelly share guitars and vocals, Garry Ross plays bass and Luke Lockley has had the drums since 2023.
The album is streaming in full, which for a self released debut is less a decision than the only way anyone outside Scotland was going to hear it.