COUGH - Still They Pray 2LP swamp with stunning cover artwork painted

with stunning cover artwork painted by Paolo “Madman” Girardi to complement the dark and dissonant death metal

and let it work its way into your head

an EP featuring synth accompaniment

though the raw production ensures that those hooks have barbs

The Mekons

COUGH - Still They Pray 2LP swamp with stunning cover artwork paintedDespite the torpid, brooding doom metal they make, Cough began in something of a hurry. During its first five years, the Richmond quartet issued an auspicious debut EP, a split LP, and two very strong full lengths, which colored the bleak grays of doom and the lurid greens of stoner metal with rainbow swirls of psychedelic rock. They jumped to Relapse Records, the giant of their field, for 2010s menacing Ritual Abuse and, suddenly, went silent. One