Swamp Coffin

Ten bastard years. That's how long Rotherham's most reliably unpleasant trio have been dragging riffs through the mud, and they've chosen to mark the occasion the only way they know how - by getting heavier.

Formed in 2016 by school mates Jon Rhodes (guitar/vocals) and Dave Wistow (drums), and completed by bassist Martyn White, Swamp Coffin took the filth of Iron Monkey, Mistress and Raging Speedhorn, ran it through 90s NOLA sludge and the groove of Sabbath, and came out the other side with something nastier than the sum of its parts. Asked once to describe the band's sound, Rhodes offered a single word: "Horrible."

2019's Flatcap Bastard Features announced them. 2021's Noose Almighty put them on the road with Raging Speedhorn, Conan and OHHMS. And 2024's Drowning Glory - seven songs written in the long shadow of real grief - was the record that broke them wide open. Metal Hammer called it "colossal in its destructive prowess"; Distorted Sound went the full 10/10 and reckoned "Swamp Coffin have utterly excelled."

Which brings us to now. As part of their ongoing celebration of Ten Bastard Years of Swamp Coffin, the band decided the Bastard Club deserved something new to get their teeth into - and on 6th September they get it. New single 'Everything Is Nothing' is Swamp Coffin at their most intense and furious yet, taking everything Drowning Glory built and sharpening it to a point. There's a new album coming too, more than likely early next year, but a decade is a decade, and they weren't about to celebrate one without new music.

Before then, they take it to Manchester: Swamp Coffin play Damnation Festival this November, where ten years of accumulated bile gets aired in public.

Ten years. Still horrible. Join the Bastard Club.

Line-up

• John Rhodes - Vocals / Guitar
• David Wistow - Drums
• Martyn White - Bass

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