Swamp Coffin - Drowning Glory

"Jon Rhodes vocals take cues from Cancer Bats' Liam Cormier and Obituary's John Tardy. Colossal in its destructive prowess... these seven slabs of sludge are gut-rumbling heavy and packed to the rafters with riffs". – 8/10 - Metal Hammer

"Swamp Coffin could and should be the ones to take UK sludge to the crowd killers and beatdowners of the U.S. This album has crossover hit written all over it." - 9/10 - Ave Noctum

"Swamp Coffin have stepped up in every department here and delivered a record of the year contender. This is the sound of a band digging deeper than ever, a band reaching an even more confident level, and having developed as artists to the point where their creativity can be fully realised." - Games, Brrraaains & A Head-Banging Life

"Swamp Coffin style themselves upon the fusion of sludge and doom metal to create something truly epic in scope, and monstrous in its impact." - The Razor's Edge

"It is some of the blackest sludge you will come across this year... each song building on the insane levels of heaviness dropped in the track before..." - 4/5 - Metal Epidemic

 "Holding true to themselves, their sound and embracing elements that serve their purpose, Swamp Coffin have utterly excelled with Drowning Glory." - 10/10 - Distorted Sound Magazine

On 29th September 2021, the day before the launch of debut full-length Noose Almighty, Swamp Coffin bass player Martyn White attempted to take his own life. Following his treatment and recovery, shortly before the album's release in November that year, Martyn's father and vocalist/guitarist Jon Rhodes' mother-in-law both passed away within hours of each other.

This is the backdrop to which Swamp Coffin started to write their heaviest, most powerful songs yet. Now the band are back with their crushing new album, ‘Drowning Glory’. The writing process was triggered by one conversation- "this band is fucking cursed".

The songs on Noose Almighty and 2019 EP Flatcap Bastard Features were motivated by the tragic death of vocalist/guitarist Jon Rhodes' brother in law in 2017, on the day their first demo was to be recorded, and the house fire 9 months later that left him and his family homeless. The topics those records covered, mens’ mental health, grief and disenchantment, are built on and explored further than ever before on ‘Drowning Glory’, the lyrical content as honest and uncompromising as the riffs they're set to.  Jon explains,

"It feels like a relief to be getting Drowning Glory out in to the world. This album finally puts to bed a lot of the grief and trauma that has hung over this band since it's inception. The fact we've done it with the best songs we've ever written is the icing on the cake.

It took a year from the release of Noose Almighty for us to even think about writing more music. The anger that fuelled both that album and the Flatcap EP just wasn't there, everything that happened in late 2021 just left me numb to the idea of writing songs. Taking some time off really allowed my feelings to stew and when the motivation was finally there, all that pain I'd suppressed came flooding out. Memories of events from the last eight years, that I thought I'd come to terms with, all suddenly resurfaced and I think that's evident in how relentlessly heavy these new songs are.”

The riffs are bigger, the grooves heavier and lean further in to their death metal and hardcore influences.  This is a band baring their souls in a way only they know how- fuzz, volume and screaming.

In the nearly three years since the release of Noose Almighty Swamp Coffin have gone from strength to strength. By bringing their downtuned sludge misery to stages across the country, the Rotherham sludge trio have recruited members to their Bastard Club along the way, opening for the likes of Obituary, Crowbar, Conan and Bongzilla and laying seige to Bloodstock, Doomlines and Reality Unfolds.

Now the architects of The World's Slowest Wall Of Death have returned with seven slabs of uncompromising, emotional metal. 

Drowning Glory was released on 27th September 2024.

1. Know You're Worthless

2. This Was Always Going To End In War

3. Drowning Glory

4. Hypocritical Mass

5. Chapter and Hearse

6. Terminally Cursed

7. As Cold As Blood

Produced by Owen Claxton and Swamp Coffin.
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Owen Claxton at Top Floor, Audioworks, Sheffield.
Artwork by Jon Rhodes.