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MyGen Profile GeneratorOur first album, Red Paint on the Odessa Steps was released on Oktober 31st 2005 through Fight Me Records. The album was recorded at Dub:rek Studios in Derby by Jay Dean and Olly Toogood. The sound kreated is a fierce and passionately dark arrangement, that leaps from visceral sonik intensity to a stripped down, brooding massakre. Our live shows are a blitzkrieg of staggering volume and oppressive intensity wrapped in a skin of psychotik visuals and projektions featuring old 16mm cinema projektors, strobes and other lighting. The multiple skreens simultaneously show chopped up images, taken from underground films, war footage, public information videos, exekutions, operations and footage kaptured by the band.

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Member Since: 8/29/2005
Band Website: intotheswarm.com
Band Members: Callum Thompson - vocals Ryan Delgaudio - guitar Michael Cross - bass Daniel Montague - drums Olly Toogood - electro Scott Sandham - visuals
Influences: Album review from diskant.net:Make no mistake, this is nasty stuff. Trenchant, massively-distorted basslines, an entire Luftwaffe squadron of hissing guitars, sing-song Liars-style vocal snippets and The Locust's misanthropic approach to melody - and that's just in opening track 'War Course'. 'The Night The Rope Broke' is relentlessly bleak, with some David Yow-style vocal acrobatics weighing in against an almost-industrial backdrop. 'Rising up Through Your Chest' complements its menacing coda perfectly by landing a gunship laden with old 70s synths square on top of it, and there are all manner of pleasing digital belches and skwerks punctuating the altogether more analogue aggression elsewhere. Perhaps best of the lot, if you've the stomach for it, is the sludgy magnum opus 'The Last Friend Left Alive', which finds the middle ground between The Birthday Party's ostentatiousness and the bullish antagonism of Will Haven and celebrates its achievement by hammering the point home for ten minutes. Not only are you guaranteed an absolute hammer blow of hardcore barbarism, but there's measured intelligence waiting underneath all the bombast, each track slipping out of your grasp with a deft sidestep just when you think you've got a handle on it.
Sounds Like:"From the off, The Swarm make their intentions crystal clear, indulging in the kind of swamp driven blues that Jon Spencer has nightmares about and Rowland S. Howard owned sole manufacturing rights to back in the day. Pitching themselves somewhere between The Birthday Party's malevolent cynicism and the Blood Brothers' happy(er)-go-lucky nihilism, The Swarm are like a concoction of cyanide, nails and nitro glycerine, shaken and stirred then served in a coffin shaped vat, finished off by an unhealthy dose of fear for dessert....."
Record Label: Fight Me Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

WE ARE SPLITTING UP!

Very regretably, the decision has been made to call it a day on The Swarm. Two of the people involved with the band have decided that the band has run it's course for them personally. We intend on goi...
Posted by The Swarm R.I.P. on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:04:00 PST

NEW RELEASES

Hey people... The Swarm have recorded 2 new tracks which will be released early next year... Fight Me! Records is putting out a split 12" featuring us and 3 other bands. They are: With Sciss...
Posted by The Swarm R.I.P. on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:47:00 PST

NME Radar

THE SWARM are featured in NME's Radar section this week, in an article focusing on bands from Nottingham, go check it out!
Posted by The Swarm R.I.P. on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:36:00 PST

BUY OUR ALBUM HERE

http://www.intotheswarm.com
Posted by The Swarm R.I.P. on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:03:00 PST

Album Review

Recalling the amount of stick that The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower got for the use of Nazi imagery, Im given to wonder if The Swarm will provoke a similar response for their pseudo-Stalinist artw...
Posted by The Swarm R.I.P. on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:02:00 PST