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diorama (2024)
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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 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 Hawk is a stoner/doom metal band from Lexington, Kentucky, formed in 2018, blending slow, riff-driven grooves with psychedelic undertones in the tradition of Southern-influenced heavy rock.
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 King is a grindcore and goregrind act from Lawton, Oklahoma, formed in 2021, combining blast-beat driven ferocity with the gore-soaked grotesquerie of the goregrind tradition.
Swamp Lantern is a Seattle, Washington band formed in 2020 that merges psychedelic doom with black metal, conjuring dense, murky atmospheres that reflect the Pacific Northwest's overcast and foreboding landscape.
Swamp Lion is a metalcore band from St. Louis, Missouri, formed in 2020, working within the aggressive rhythms and melodic intensity central to contemporary American metalcore.
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.
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