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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Swamp Corpse have been channeling sludge and doom metal from Hamburg since 2010, building fetid, crushing compositions from the Hanseatic port city. Their marshy name and near-decade-and-a-half of activity reflect a sustained commitment to swamp-dwelling heaviness.
Swamp Druid is a sludge/post-metal band from Gainesville, Florida, formed in 2020, weaving expansive, slow-burning heaviness with atmospheric passages informed by Florida's humid, oppressive environment.
Swamp Goat blend black metal with sludge from the German underground, creating a mud-caked hybrid that draws from both genres' darkest, most abrasive corners. Active since 2013, they bring caprine fury to the extreme metal swamplands.
Swamp Hag is a sludge metal band from Lawrence, Kansas, formed in 2019, delivering ugly, feedback-laden heaviness with the confrontational energy common to the American sludge underground.
Swamp Lordz delivers stoner, doom, and sludge metal from Poitiers, active since 2016. Their bayou-evoking name and triple-genre heaviness transplant the murky, oppressive atmosphere of swampland into the medieval university city of western France.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana sludge and Southern metal band formed in 2018, channeling the suffocating heaviness of the Gulf Coast underground through down-tuned riffs and a thick, swampy production aesthetic native to the region.
Visalia, California doom and sludge metal band formed in 2009, crafting slow, oppressive music that blends the tar-thick weight of sludge with traditional doom metal melancholy, rooted in California's fertile underground heavy scene.
Flagstaff, Arizona band formed in 2013 that fuses black metal, sludge, crust punk, and hardcore into a raw, confrontational sound that reflects the chaotic energy of the desert Southwest's DIY underground.
Oklahoma City sludge metal band formed in 2015, building massive walls of down-tuned, feedback-heavy sound in the tradition of the American Southern sludge underground.
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