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....."
Our 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.
Fat techno style guitar riffage and drums for the downtrodden of today.
INDICA RITUAL
www.myspace.com/indicaritual
Superior blockhead pop coated with ropes of electro jizz, a feast for all the senses.
Sounds like: a mixture of Cardiacs, Blur fuzz rock and electronic jabs
THE GEORDIE APPROACH
www.myspace.com/thegeordieapproach
www.myspace.com/leedsimprovisedmusicassociation
The essence of rippage. Featuring Chris Sharkey, Stale Birkeland and Petter Fadnes of LIMA pulling out all the stops with semi-structured improvised meanderings of guitar, drums and sax. Skill!!!
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How have you been, if your interested in knowing the whole soundtrack to the film its online in my blogs, plese check it out let me know what you think.
awful news guys, thanks for being a great band, look forward to your individual projects you guys are far too good to leave the music biz completely... all the best for the future! Brain II x
Is what I meant to post...Gonna be dj-ing at this night every month, so I shall see you down in brighton town when it's your turn to bring your musical fury to the night x
