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Everyone's Talking! (2025)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Swallowed by Apathy is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Newark, Ohio, formed in 2011, merging technically ambitious arrangements with melodic hooks drawn from the Scandinavian death metal tradition.
Swallowed Whole is a Seattle, Washington band formed in 2018 that fuses death metal, doom, and black metal into a dense, morbid sound drawing from the darkest corners of Pacific Northwest extreme metal.
Swamp is a death metal band from Racine, Wisconsin, formed in 2013, delivering straightforward brutality rooted in the old-school death metal ethos of the American Midwest.
Swamp is a Jacksonville, Florida band formed in 2013 that melds death metal aggression with sludge metal's punishing mid-paced heaviness, drawing on Florida's deep extreme metal heritage.
Swamp Gas is a death metal and grindcore band from Everglades City, Florida, formed in 2011, unleashing blasts of putrid extremity that evoke the remote and unforgiving wilderness of the deep Everglades.
Swamp Killer is a death metal band from Mechanicsville, Virginia, formed in 2022, delivering crushing, riff-forward death metal that leans into the brutalist traditions of the genre.
Swamp Lord is a Kalamazoo, Michigan band formed in 2016 that blends death/doom metal with hardcore punk sensibilities, creating a suffocating sound that bridges extreme metal and the raw energy of hardcore.
Swamp Morgue is a slam/brutal death metal band from Panama City, Florida, formed in 2022, specializing in the down-tuned, pit-invoking heaviness and visceral grotesquerie of the American slam death underground.
Los Angeles death metal and grindcore band formed in 2017, beginning with a raw grindcore and death metal attack before evolving into a more death/black metal direction, combining brutality and ferocity throughout their catalog.
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