COUGH “Sigillum Luciferi” – This six track, hour long debut full length is finally getting it’s proper due. Encased in beautiful gatefold packaging this double LP from Richmond’s heaviest, ugliest, and slowest band will leave you with a knot of discomfort in your stomach. This effort, which was released previously only via CD last May on Forcefield, was recorded in September 2007 at Volume Studious in Chicago, IL with Sanford Parker (BURIED AT SEA, RWAKE, MINSK, UNEARTHLY TRANCE, LAIR OF THE MINOTAUR) and mastered by Collin Jordan (MINSK, BURIED AT SEA, NACHTMYSTIUM, YAKUZA) of Boiler Room Mastering also of Chicago, IL. This album is doom that stays true to the definition of doom and doesn’t try to do too much or add in any unnecessary flair. dirty, slow, hateful, and most of all heavy. This is a co-release with United Kingdom’s FEAST OF TENTACLES and Belgium’s ELECTRIC EARTH.


Here is a review that actually just went up this month on StonerRock.com
"I generally try not to steal directly from other people's reviews, but this comment on Cough's excellent Sigillum Luciferi really says it all: “Now that doom has largely moved on to artier pastures it's nice to hear something raw and dirty like this, more at home in the welfare line then the art gallery” (courtesy Dave Don't Try).
Because that's pretty much what this six song slab of slow 'n' heavy is: guttural sludge-doom that's stripped down and primal, tapping into the same raw energy that made Buried at Sea's Migration, Weedeater's Sixteen Tons, and Electric Wizard's Dopethrone the classics they are. There's a bit of each three of those albums in Sigillum Luciferi - the crushing, seething rage of Buried at Sea, the crushing grooves of Weedeater, and the crushing, stoner-atmospheric doom riffs of Electric Wizard. That's a whole lot of crushing going on (best exemplified on “Hole in the Infinite.” Or “Northern Plague.” Wait, I meant “Shallow Grave”) and in lesser hands the songs would decompose into one loud, turgid morass of ungainly riffs – especially since half of the tracks creep past the ten minute mark . Not so with Cough. It may be raw and dirty, but it's also smartly done. Recommended." - Stonerrock.com