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Forest Swords

Electronic

The next Forest Swords concert is scheduled for Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at City Recital Hall in Sydney, Australia. See all 4 upcoming concerts
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Upcoming Concerts for Forest Swords

  • Jun
    10
    Jun 10, 2025
    City Recital Hall
    Sydney
  • Jun
    13
    Jun 13, 2025
    Odeon Theatre
    Hobart
  • Jun
    14
    Jun 14, 2025
    ACMI
    Melbourne
  • Nov
    05
    Nov 05, 2025
    Auditorium San Fedele
    Milan

Latest Release

Listen to Bolted (Deconstructed) by Forest Swords
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More albums from Forest Swords

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Listen to Compassion by Forest Swords
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Listen to Shrine (Original Dance Score) by Forest Swords
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Listen to Engravings by Forest Swords
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Listen to Dagger Paths (Extended Version) [Remastered] by Forest Swords
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About Forest Swords

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Hometown
Wirral, Merseyside, England
Born
2009
Genre
Electronic
The project of producer/visual artist Matthew Barnes, Forest Swords' intense beats and pensive moods blur the lines between moods and eras as well as genres. The project's early work, such as 2010's Dagger Paths EP, revealed that Barnes was as indebted to post-punk as he was to dub and hip-hop, but Forest Swords' horizons continued to expand on 2014's debut album Engravings and 2017's Compassion, which incorporated jazz, global, and classical music into a more restrained approach. Barnes' somber fusion of the ancient and futuristic suited scoring work perfectly, and he became a sought-after composer, working on projects ranging from Assassin's Creed: Rogue to the award-winning documentary Ghosts of Sugar Land. As renowned as Barnes became for his approach, the surprisingly dense and gritty -- but still hauntingly beautiful -- sound of 2023's Bolted burnished Forest Swords' reputation as a distinctive, yet continually surprising, creative force.

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