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Picture Credit: Lunar Swamp Artwork: Steven Yoyada   Lunar Swamp - Moonshine Blues Release Date: July 02, 2021 Label: The Swamp Records / Clostridium Records / Burning Coffin Recs Format: Vinyl / CD / Cassette / Digital Length: 35:38 Genre: Shamanic Doom Blues Origin: Catanzaro , Italy A bit over a year ago, Catanzaro's Shamanic Doom Blues trio Lunar Swamp released their first mini-album / EP " UnderMudBlues ". Now, their first full-length "Moonshine Blues" is out and available via The Swamp Records (CD), Clostridium Records (Vinyl), and Burning Coffin Recs (Chile). One can argue that the debut album is only eight minutes longer than the 2020 EP. But different to the previous release, "Moonshine Blues" is avalaible in all relevant physical formats. On six new tracks, Mark Wolf  (vocals, harp), S.M. Ghoul  (drums), and Machen  (guitars, cigar box guitar) embrace the night and the apocalypse. Their Shamanic Doom Blues is an honest worship of the forefa...

Picture Credit: Bretus Artwork: DamianaMerante Art   Bretus - Magharia Release Date: May 07, 2021 Label: The Swamp (CD) / Overdrive (Vinyl) / Burning Coffin Recs (Tape) Format: Vinyl / CD / Cassette / Digital Length: 42:42 Genre: Horror Doom Origin: Catanzaro , Italy Bretus from Catanzaro, Calabria stand for 21 years of doom, occult mysticism, and Lovecraft-like horror. Those ingredients make a perfectly cursed recipe - let us embrace the Horror Doom! Less than two years after the release of their album " Aion Tetra " and the re-issue of their selftitled debut , Bretus  are back with another thrilling soundtrack for the apocalypse. "Magharia",the name probably refers to a medieval Judaeo-Christian sect, also called the people of the caves who regarded Jesus of Nazareth as an angel whose existence was foreseen from the beginning of everything. Once again, Bretus come up to the name of their genre. The sound of "Magharia" combines elements of traditional ...

Picture Credit: Bretus   Bretus - Bretus Release Date: December 12, 2010, Re-Issue: November 11, 2020 Label: Fuzzy Cracklins / The Swamp Records Format: CD / Digital Length: 26:15 Genre: Horror Doom Origin: Catanzaro , Italy Bretus' selftitled Mini CD was originally released in 2010. In 2014 actually, the first re-issue was produced. Now in 2020, we celebrate the tenteh anniversary of the Horror Doom debut from Italy. And it is another premiere, too. The re-release of "Bretus" is the first re-issue ever done by the label The Swamp Records. On five tracks Bretus play heavy Doom Metal driven by a sludgy psychedelic atmosphere. The second element defining the sound on this Mini CD is horror. You can hear in the opening track 'Sitting on the Grave' (video above). Bretus work with the tradition of bands like Samhain, The Other or Rezurex. Horror stories are the motor for both, the lyrics and the musical style. Doom Metal-wise, Bretus are rather traditional. Their soun...

Photo Credit: Damiana Merante Art / Lunar Swamp Lunar Swamp - UnderMudBlues Release: March 2, 2020 Label: Fuzzy Cracklins Length: 27:13 Format: Mini-CD, Digital, Stream Genre: Doom Metal / Blues Rock / Swamp Blues Welcome to the Swamp. Lunar Swamp from Catanzaro in Calabria, Italy have recently came out with their first release "UnderMudBlues", a five-track Mini-CD available on Californian label Fuzzly Cracklins. As you might get from both band name and album title, this is all about heavy doom-ridden Swamp Blues. Lunar Swamp themselves call their style Shamanic Doom Blues - a well-fitting description of the music displayed on their debut. The five tracks on "UnderMudBlues" are defined by heavy psychedelic Blues motifs, an omnipresent Fuzz effect and the occult atmosphere of Doom Metal. Like stompig through oozy terrain the trio ponderously moves forward. Drummer S.M. Ghoul  is responsible for the steady and intense motion in p...