Kerrang! the album '09

Swound! are going to be on a Kerrang! compilation CD! How amazing is that? As you can see by the tracklisting below, it's an incredible line-up of bands.. only made better by the fact that we are on it! YES! EAT THAT!

Disc 1

Green Day - Know Your Enemy
Billy Talent - Rusted From The Rain
My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
Paramore - Misery Business
You Me @ Six - Save It For The Bedroom
The All American Rejects - Gives You Hell
New Found Glory - Listen To Your Friends
The Blackout - Stfuppercut
The King Blues - Save The World, Get The Girl
Spinnerette - Rebelious Palpitations
Alexisonfire - Young Cardinals
Madina Lake - Let's Get Outta Here
Swound! - We Are A Danger
Gallows - London Is The Reason
The Ghost Of A Thousand - Bright Lights
Taking Back Sunday - Sink Into Me
Chiodos - Lexington
Cobra Starship - Pete Wentz Is The Only Reason We're Famous
Metro Station - Shake It
Enter Shikari - Juggernauts
The Prodigy - Omen

Disc 2

Slipknot - Sulfer
Dragonforce - Heroes Of Our Time
Slayer - Psycopathy Red
Killswitch Engage - Starting Over
Mastadon - Divinations
Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day
Theory Of A Deadman - Hate My Life
In Case Of Fire - Enemies
Disturbed - The Night
Devildriver - Pray For Villains

Shinedown - Sound Of Madness
Papa Roach - Lifeline
Fightstar - Mercury Summer
Static-X - Stingwray
Lamb Of God - Set To Fail
Cancer Bats - Engine Skull
Bring Me The Horizon - Football
Season Is Over
Blakfish - Economics
Outcry Collective -
The Dead Formats - Dirty White Shoes
Rolo Tomassi - I Love Turbulence

We have beaten the following bands, as they are not on the compilation
U2
Coldplay
Snow Patrol
N-Dubz
JLS
Fat Man Scoop


You can pre-order the CD from these sites, and more (much cheaper than iTunes, by the way)

Recordstore

CD WOW

Amazon

HMV

YES!

Challenge Swound! is up!

So we launched Challenge Swound! and its been going pretty well. We have attempted 12 challenges, if you want to check out the results, you can just go here:

http://challengeswound.com/results.php

Or just watch some of these:




Keep checking back, we are posting results up nearly every day. Please feel free to submit a challenge and get our album for free.

XFM, City Showcase, Rock Sound and Radio 1 Big Weekend

Yo bitches!

It's really early.. I have had about 7 hours sleep in the last two days.. probably due to a mixture of excitement and also a sore gut that I've had every morning for the last two weeks.

Friday, XFM and Rock Sound sponsored City Showcase Gig

This was our first headline gig in London and it was incredible. The crowd were awesome and the other bands were amazing too. They came in the form of The Sea, Hunting the Minotaur and Telegraphs. You should look for them all on myspace. Also, the gig was sponsored by Fentimans botanically brewed soft drinks. They endorse us, so it was good to knock back some of their sweet sweet botans. mmmm. Anyway, this was reviewed for Rock Sound so there will be something in the magazine in the next month. I'll upload a scan when I have it. BIG thanks to City showcase, Ian Camfield and Rock Sound who put us on. YO!

Radio One's Big Weekend

This added to probably our best weekend ever. Being our first festival appearance we were super psyched. I'm going to write a proper blog soon with pictures and all, so I'll keep this brief.

Basically, we played, had a great crowd (if any of you are reading this, thanks so much for coming to watch us), did loads of interviews and drank lots of free bottled water. Our toilets were good too, until one guy left two huge logs in them.

We met Moyles, Westwood (more stories about this guy to follow), Vernon Kaye, Fern and Reggie (who are both apparently fans of the band), Jo Whiley etc etc etc. I spent all day telling most of them that we were amazing.. I think they probably wanted me to go away but humoured me nonetheless.

Videos, photos and various media to follow. In the meantime check this out from bbc3 (available for 7 days from now I think) - BBC iPlayer Fast forward to 10 minutes.

Yes! Biggest thanks in the world to local DJ Dean Jackson who put us forward to play. He is going to be best man at all of our weddings (if we can convince anyone to marry us). Check out his awesome show called The Beat. Rowan was interviewed on his show after the gig. Check it out here - Rowan Interviewed on The Beat (fast forward to 2.43)

Lastly, for anyone that likes our music, check out Challenge Swound!. You can pay what you want for our album. You could even get our album for free! The site isn't quite operational yet, but check back soon! More to follow

Challenge Swound! video

Here is the video that I have spent the past few days making.

Challenge Swound! Intro from Swound! on Vimeo.

We are playing our first London headline show on Friday and Radio 1's Big Weekend on Saturday. It's gonna be right LOL, Yeah?

Lloyd out!