Swamp Lantern - Phantasms (2020) (New Full Album)

Swamp Lantern - Phantasms (New Full Album) They say that good things come to those who wait… and while “Shriveled Pigs Eyes”, the first track from Swamp Lantern’s debut album, Phantasms, definitely makes you wait for it with its drifting, dreamlike opening minutes, it’s more than worth it, as when it finally kicks into gear the song’s melodic mix of doom-laced Goth-Rock and grim-faced Black Metal is nothing short of spellbinding. Of course it’s not a totally unique sound – there’s definitely some latter-day Tribulation and In Solitude influence in the mix, not to mention some straight-up (blackened) Sabbath worship going on, but I’ll be damned if it isn’t devilishly distinctive all the same. Nowhere is this more obvious than on prodigious penultimate track “Black Garbage Trucks”, which is fourteen minutes of doomy, gloomy grimness that marries big, brooding riffs and moody, miasmic melodies with an array of creeping, crooning vocals and savage snarls to create something that defies easy categorization