Swamp Thing released Murder House on Friday, October 30, 2026, via URBNET, a 13 track album produced entirely by T.O. Huxtable. The Swamp Thing Murder House album keeps the Toronto trio’s Halloween tradition alive, arriving one day before the holiday the group has built its calendar around.
Swamp Thing is Timbuktu, Chokeules and Savilion, three Toronto MCs who have turned B movie horror into a working method: dark beats, dense verse trading and jokes buried inside the gore. For Toronto rappers watching how a scene sustains itself, the group is a case study in consistency. Murder House is their newest full length, it was recorded at The Cabin in Muskoka and at FUN in Toronto, and it carries a guest list drawn entirely from the Canadian underground the trio came up in.
Swamp Thing Murder House Album: A Halloween Ritual Holds
URBNET, the Toronto label releasing the record, frames the return in the language the group’s audience expects:
Prepare for a terrifying treat as Toronto’s three-headed rap monster Swamp Thing returns just in time for the spookiest season with their new album, Murder House.
The ritual framing is earned. Swamp Thing’s Bandcamp catalogue now runs to 13 releases, from Creature Feature and Firedogs through Outer Limits, Horse Power, Cherry Mongoose, Salty Gator and World War Swamp, and the Halloween slot is the spine of it. World War Swamp marked a full decade of October releases, and Murder House extends the run rather than treating it as a one off seasonal record. The album ships in the formats that audience collects: mystery colour vinyl, CD, and a double cassette pairing Murder House with World War Swamp on fluorescent orange and green tapes.
The timing also gives the record a clean lane. Late October is crowded with major label rap, but almost none of it is built for Halloween itself. A Toronto group with a decade of horror themed albums owns that weekend in its scene, and Murder House leans all the way in, from the haunted house concept down to track titles like Cryptids, Chainsaws and Dead People.
Huxtable Behind the Boards, the Crew in the Credits
T.O. Huxtable produced the entire project, and the credits show a closed circle working at full strength. Huxtable and Timbuktu arranged the album, Timbuktu mixed it, DJ iRATE handled all the cuts, Ghettosocks designed the artwork and DJ Dorc mastered it for Banging Masters. The project was funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters, a detail worth naming because it is exactly how records like this get made in Canadian hip hop: independent label, public support, and a crew where every job is done by someone inside the family.
Huxtable’s role matters to the sound. He produced Timbuktu’s most recent solo work as well, and his dark, cinematic production gives the trio a single consistent backdrop across all 13 tracks instead of a patchwork of outside beats. That unity is the album’s engine. Three MCs trading verses need a producer who leaves space in the middle of the record, and the Murder House tracklist is sequenced like a crew album should be, with the guests placed where they raise the energy rather than interrupt it.
The Tracklist and the Guest Verses
Murder House runs 13 tracks: One Year Left, Sword Stays Sharp, Cryptids, Don’t Sleep, Trick Or Treatin’ featuring Ghettosocks, Year Of The Horse, Clomp Clomp featuring More Or Les, Wrecking Crew featuring Jesse Dangerously, Chainsaws, Elephant Three featuring Bazooka Joe, Dead People, Futuristic and General Admission. Every featured artist is Canadian hip hop royalty from the Backburner extended family, which keeps the album’s world sealed and specific.
The guest spots are working verses, not name lending. Jesse Dangerously, writing on release day, noted that he appears on Wrecking Crew for twelve bars right after a scratch of Son Doobie’s voice, the kind of granular detail that tells you how hand built this record is. Ghettosocks pulls double duty, featuring on Trick Or Treatin’ and designing the album’s artwork. More Or Les and Bazooka Joe round out a lineup that reads like a roll call of Toronto and Canadian underground rap across two decades.
That is the real story of Murder House for Canadian hip hop. In a week when Toronto rap headlines belong to arena names, Swamp Thing represents the other half of the city’s rap economy: veteran MCs, an independent Toronto label, physical formats pressed for collectors, and an annual Halloween appointment their audience marks on the calendar. The album is available now through URBNET’s Bandcamp on vinyl, CD, cassette and digital, shipping on or around October 30. Thirteen tracks, one producer, three MCs and a house full of guests: the ritual holds, and Toronto’s spookiest rap tradition has its 2026 edition.
