Swamp Coffin are certainly no strangers to turmoil. Before they’d ever even recorded a demo together, vocalist Jon Rhodes lost his brother in law to a car accident. Nine months later he found himself homeless for six months as a result of a house fire. The band soldiered on, releasing their demo in 2018 and an EP a year later, however, the emotional fallout of those events has lingered.
It’s on this foundation of psychological unrest upon which the Rotherham-based trio’s debut album, Noose Almighty (the title-track was written at Disneyland!), is built. Channeling heartache into hatred, the band have created northern England’s equivalent of NOLA sludge, combining traditional doom grooves and melodies with the visceral fury of death metal.