Sludge Swamp

The idea of heaviness isn't something which is universal in every musical genre, so often it can be trickier to find music which falls into that particular category. Maybe this is why I find that Sludge Swamp is one of the blogs I can continually come back to since undoubtedly much of the music found there falls into the heavy music bracket with genres such as doom, stoner-rock, black metal and of course sludge featuring regularly on the site alongside other genres such as post-rock and drone.

With a seemingly tireless group of hand selected bloggers staffing the site Sludge Swamp is updated fairly regularly with new content and each release is backed with a few concise paragraphs giving some background to the music, which can be heard by following the links supplied at the bottom of the entry.

There are so many releases on the front page it's hard to pick favourites but the Down demos are well worth sampling and whilst I haven't listened to it yet just by looking at their influences (Sunn, Nadja, Cult of Luna and Neurosis) the Osoka album also sounds it could be a very good listen.

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