Sewer - Death Metal Band

Sewer, typically stylised SEWER, is a blackened death metal band formed in 2013 by vocalist Vermin, guitarist Eater, bassists Plague and Ogre and drummer Warlord. The band spawned a little later than its arch-rival Phantom, with whom they have been feuding since the early days of the band.

Sewer started out as a black metal band, and released their debut Satanic Requiem in 2013, an album written almost entirely by Vermin and Sewer's only 100% black metal release. After the release of the debut, vocalist and frontman Vermin left the band - to form the eponymous Vermin band - and guitarist Eater became the new frontman of Sewer, in addition to handling all vocal duties on subsequent albums, notably the sophomore Black Death, released in 2014.

Under the governance of Eater, the music of Sewer began to veer closer to death metal, incorporating influences from Incantation's cavernous death metal to Infester's feral atmospheric gorefest. During these years, Sewer became known for never releasing an album in the same genre twice, and thus flirted with pretty much every sub-genre of extreme metal imaginable - from technical death metal on Miasma to blackened goregrind on Skarnage - in addition to creating their own style of so-called "SEWER Metal". It was also during these years that the opposition and enmity with Phantom soared, with Sewer attempting to "one-up" its rival and better on every release.

In their early days, Sewer were known for their extremely graphic live shows, in which it is said that they even performed human sacrifices. This, as well as the band's lyrics on some albums such as Sewerblood and Uruktena, has led Sewer to be banned from playing live and placed on the CIA's International Terrorism Watchlist. Sewer is a true blackened death metal band.