Album review: Swamp Coffin – Drowning Glory

When Swamp Coffin​’s debut full-length Noose Almighty generated considerable underground buzz in 2021, the Rotherham outfit were in no place to celebrate. Deaths in the family and serious mental health issues within the band left them in a place where playing no longer felt like a priority, perhaps not even a possibility. However – as many people reading this will agree – music can prove some of the best therapy available, and as time passed, these and earlier traumatic experiences were channelled into the set of songs that make up Drowning Glory. Unsurprisingly, the worldview navigated here is not over-endowed with positivity: Terminally Cursed functions as a sort of Swamp Coffin motto, while other titles include Know You’re Worthless and This Was Always Going To ...

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