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APF Fest 2025 @ Rebellion, Manchester

19th March 202619th March 2026 Matthew Williams APF Fest, APF Records, Battalions, Goblinsmoker, Manchester, Rebellion, Swamp Coffin, Trippy Wicked, Urzah, Voidlurker, Wall

On my 51st birthday, I hot-footed it up to one of my favourite venues in Manchester, Rebellion, for the APF

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29th January 202629th January 2026 Tim C Ahab, ArcTanGent Festival, Between The Buried And Me, Bipolar Architecture, Clown Core, DVNE, God Is An Astronaut, Inter Arma, Lo!, Rolo Tomassi, Sugar Horse, Swamp Coffin, The Callous Daoboys, Wren

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Top Ten Of 2024: Mark Hunt-Bryden

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2024 has been quite the year… I got the chance to attend three very different music festivals; finally popping my

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Review: Swamp Coffin ‘Drowning Glory’

27th September 202415th December 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Sludge, Swamp Coffin

Rothertham’s Swamp Coffin began life in 2016 with vocalist/guitarist Jon Rhodes and drummer David Winstow looking for a way ‘of

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Review: Various Artists ‘Best Of Soundgarden Redux’

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I’m going to go ahead and get this out of the way now: Soundgarden is one of my all-time favorite

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Review: Swamp Coffin ‘Noose Almighty’

26th November 202111th January 2022 Mark Hunt-Bryden APF Records, Doom, Sludge, Swamp Coffin

One thing that is striking about Rotherham based three-piece, Swamp Coffin is actually just how really fucking heavy they are.

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