The Swellers

The Swellers
Left to right: Boros, Nick Diener, Jonathan Diener, and Collins in 2011
Background information
Origin	Flint, Michigan
Genres	Punk rock, pop punk, emo, melodic hardcore
Years active	2002–15
Labels	Fueled by Ramen, Paper + Plastick, Search and Rescue, Radtone, No Sleep
Past members	Nick Diener Jonathan Diener Ryan Collins Anto Boros Garrett Burgett Lance Nelson Nate Lamberts Nick Ondovcsik Brad Linden

The Swellers were an American punk band from Flint, Michigan. Its music is influenced by melodic punk rock bands as well as alternative and indie rock from the 1990s.

On June 24, 2002, brothers Nick and Jonathan Diener brought their friend Nate Lamberts from Grand Rapids, MI to Fenton, MI to jam. In the following days, The Swellers was formed and recorded a 3 song demo.

After a week, the band booked its first show at the Flint Local 432 in Flint, Michigan opening for the band Divit.

After a few years of playing shows all over Michigan and eventually the Midwest, The Swellers recruited Nick Ondovcsik on 2nd guitar. After a short lived stint with the band, Ondovcsik left in order to pursue other musical interests, eventually forming the death metal band Ares Letum. In early 2005, Lamberts followed, leaving to pursue a college education. Close friends and fellow members of the Flint music scene at the time, Garrett Burgett and Lance Nelson, joined soon after on bass and guitar.

The band recorded Beginning Of The End Again in the spring of 2005 at Sentient Studios in Flint, MI. That summer the band signed to Search and Rescue Records and played a Midwestern/Canadian leg of the Vans Warped Tour.

Since the summer of 2006, The Swellers has been constantly touring the U.S. That same year, they signed to Japanese Label Radtone Music, and flew out to do a week of shows.

In November and December 2006, The Swellers went to the newly moved Sentient Studio in Chicago, Illinois to record their full-length album, My Everest. The album was released on June 5, 2007 through Search and Rescue Records.

From the months of March 2008 to May, Lance and Garrett left the group before several large tours. The Swellers enlisted the guitarist of the fellow labelmates and now defunct act, Alucard (whose other guitarist recently joined A Wilhelm Scream), and close friend Brad Linden to fulfill the bass duties for several months.

Second guitar player Ryan Collins joined the band prior to the recording of Ups and Downsizing, and soon after, bassist Anto Boros, previously of the Canadian band, Sydney, joined The Swellers to round out the new lineup.