Dead Swans – Sleepwalkers

Filling up your innards with oodles of their fiery brand of hardcore, Dead Swans float to the surface amid a flurry of percussion, throaty screeches and yelling, slashing guitar anthems, and mid-range melodies. Oddly enough they were awarded a nomination as the Best British Newcomer for Kerrang! Awards ’08. But while that may be their biggest brush with fame, as they pulled in their heads like a turtle into its shell they concentrate of working harder and earning their demerits the right honorable way; instead of pursuing bigger and better commercial success, Dead Swans reverted to melting faces at hardcore and metal shows. Earning the respect of the majority of the hardcore scene, Dead Swans then faced their biggest test: to record a full-length. Bridge Nine Records would be the host for what would soon become an infectious plague of hardcore. “Sleepwalkers” is the fruit of that labor (or as they’d say “labour”). Crunchy guitars that awake your adrenalin glands form a vicious combo with their brand of precision-based punk’ed hardcore and chaotic songwriting. Ya nailed it guys.