RED SWAMP – Album premiere, new video
and Eastern European tour
Hungarian stoner-sludge metal band Red Swamp might be familiar to
anyone keeping a keen eye on the Eastern European underground scene
- the 5 guys from Budapest released a 3 song EP that made the rounds
on a quite a few choice stoner-sludge-doom blogs and pages, with stellar
reviews. The songs on the release also helped them to win first place in
one of Hungary’s biggest musical talent competitions (out of about 500
applicants) cultivated by the well known venue A38 ship, called
Talentometer. Not long after, they put out an epic new song, The
Animal, and a banging new video for their flagship track Tiszassippi
(http://bit.ly/tiszassippi_video). They toured with fellow hard-hitters
Omega Diatribe (extreme groove-metal) and Dungaree (stoner-grunge
rock) in their home country and abroad, opening for and supporting
well known local and international bands with great success, among
them: Karma to Burn and Sons of Morpheus. They also had their fill of
festival gigs, playing 7 day Hungarian rock-metal festival Rockmaraton
to great acclaim (http://bit.ly/redswamp_rockmaraton2016), and
widely known EFOTT festival (situated beside a lake), where they
literally stamped the whole place into mud.
As the result of their little-over-a-year existence, they released their first
full length album “Tiszassippi” (coining the phrase from local
Hungarian river Tisza and meshing it with the mighty Mississippi of
course) on September 21st 2016 in Hungary, featuring 10 songs
(http://bit.ly/tiszassippi_album_youtube). The LP was mastered by
none other than Swedish maestro Jens Bogren from Fascination
Studios, who probably doesn’t need to be introduced, he worked on
career defining albums with At the Gates, Soilwork and Arch Enemy,
just to name a few. The album features the first EP’s three songs and the
afore mentioned The Animal, which have been remastered, and 5 brand
new tracks that represent the evolution the band went through in the
following year and the direction and style the guys now call their own.
Strong, heavy grooves and riffs occupy the record with memorable
vocals to keep the listener on edge, it’s an album that’s sure to please
fans old and new.
The 5-piece also released a new video to debut with the LP for their song
“Bitter Paradise” (http://bit.ly/bitterparadise), a fast, red-hot stoner
metal song that’s sure to be a hit at parties and concerts. The video
follows the guys as they travel from gig to gig, putting all their
respectable efforts into belching their ten-ton-tunes onto the
unsuspecting audience’s face.
It’s highly recommended to look out for them for the rest of the year, as
they embark on their tour with fellow Hungarian stoner-grunge-rock
band Dungaree, who have also recently released a full length record
(http://bit.ly/2bKrUvF). They will be touring almost everywhere in
Hungary, also crossing the border with stops in Austria, Serbia and
Romania. If you’re looking for concerts where you can headbang from
the waist up, where stoner rock and metal rule the day, where visceral,
sweat-soaked, once in a lifetime brain-shredding is the main attraction,
you’d do well to remember their name (Red Swamp) and go check them
out at a venue near you.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swamp.band.budapest/
Official web page: http://redswampband.com/