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Swamp Witch - Gnosis

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Obstacle of Affliction Some sweet sludge to put between your tongue and cheek. Favorite track: Gnosis.

Metallurgical Fire Gnosis is the best song this band has ever written. I love all their stuff but that song is on another level. Favorite track: Gnosis.

mypeaceb4u Total doom, swamp filled licks and riffs. Howling screams of the Doomed. Favorite track: Gnosis.

J. Wukotich This is fuckin awesome! Doom/Death at it’s very best! Absolutely fantastic guitar work! Favorite track: Gnosis.

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Swamp Witch; the culmination of psychedelic substances, occult practices, and band members interest in dark, strange, and trippy music originally devised with the sole intent to commit and record ritualistic extremities through heavy music only for the night of 9/9/09. In the aftermath, members found themselves pressed to continue the slow-burning drudgery sparked that September ninth into the months that followed, leading to shows, recordings, band members towing themselves out of the smog from Central Valley, CA into Oakland and Arcata.

The punishing, murky layers protruding from this release drip with the trance-laden, drug induced efforts of 70's psychedelia compressed into the claustrophobic toil and painful repetition of 90's sludge. This concept of "Gnosis" actually seems more akin to H.P. Lovecraft's ideas of psychosis and derealization as the only thing the feeble human mind can experience when confronting truth (cosmicism), as opposed to gnosis in the classic, transcendental sense of the term.

Cosmic Sludge from Oakland/Vice City.
Recorded & Mixed at Earhammer Studios by Greg Wilkinson
Mastered at Trakworx by Justin Weis
Slowwwed Down by DJ DREEMZ

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1.	Novem 04:53	buy track
2.	Emerald Serpent 05:10	buy track
3.	Gnosis 09:40	buy track
4.	Novem - Slowwwed Down By DJ Dreemz 07:07	buy track
5.	Emerald Serpent - Slowwwed Down By DJ Dreemz 06:30	buy track
6.	Gnosis - Slowwwed Down By DJ Dreemz 11:10	buy track

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Cosmic Sludge from Oakland/Vice City.
Recorded & Mixed at Earhammer Studios by Greg Wilkinson
Mastered at Trakworx by Justin Weis
Slowwwed Down by DJ DREEMZ

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