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SWORDS
Genre: Indie, Rock
Region: Adelaide, SA
Members: Jolan Lisle-Oakley - Bass Mark Draper - Bass Steve Burdett - Drums
Sounds Like: My Disco, Shellac, Oxes
Influences: Don Caballero, Battles, Dianogah

Unearthed Artists We Like: Antony Of The Future


From the ruins of three Adelaide bands comes SWORDS. Two basses and drums. No guitars, no vocals, no kidding.

Words are inadequate to describe the bone bending hum of SWORDS. This is a band you can feel in your teeth, even when they aren't playing. In silence, SWORDS is always there, the buzz of their idle amplifiers like the drone of a swarm of monstrous robotic wasps. When they honour our skulls by flipping the standby switch, their majestic bass-heavy throb shakes the earth beneath your feet, cracks foundations, and the roar bends light. SWORDS are modern behemoth, a mechanized present day thunder lizard. They will crush you, and you will rejoice.

The men involved are a riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a coil of steel cable.

SWORDS are a three man army. You cannot stop them... you can only hope to contain them and minimize the damage.

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Played on triple j Long Island Knife Fight
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