Current members: Bill Hamilton, guitar, background vocals; Carl Gehrman, vocals, keyboard; Dan Klein, drums; Jason Crebs, guitar; Tim Clifton, base guitar, backup vocals
Founded in: 1996
Style: Hard rock
Influenced by: Led Zeppelin and Metallica
Notable: This band started playing together when most of the members were in school together at Catonsville High School (“We were all nerds and dorks in the higher-level classes,” said drummer Dan Klein). They kept practicing and performing though college. And a new album is due this fall.
Quotable: Klein on how long a band should stay together: “It depends on what kind of drugs the band is doing — if you do a lot of drugs it just withers away at your body, and you’re not going to be at your peak.”
For more information about Swath, visit www.swath.org.
— Annie Linskey
