SWEDEN UNITED - the band created to raise awareness and take action against bullying and harrassement in schools featuring members of MESHUGGAH, NIGHTWISH, SOILWORK, HYPOCRISY, EVERGREY, SCARPOINT - are holding an unofficial release party on October 6th at Debaser Slussen in Stockholm.

On October 11th, Supernova Records will release 'Open Your Eyes', the single from Sweden United, written by Scarpoint with Pontus Hjelm (ex-DEAD BY APRIL).

A message from Scarpoint states: "When we recorded the album we also recorded a song with a bunch of our friends on it.

Why?

It all begun back in 2008 when we read an article about a young boy from Örebro, Sweden, who was repeatedly physically bullied at school, receiving hits to both his head and his face. He came up with the idea to pay other pupils with his own toys for protection. The school tried to put a stop to it but to no avail and as a result the boys suffered from difficult psychological problems. When we read this, our hearts was shattered into thousands of pieces. We could not imagine that a Swedish school would fail to this degree in regards to protecting this young boy.

This is just one of many examples that further confirm that the lack of sufficient anti-bullying programs in schools negatively effects our future generations. Not content to just sit around and do nothing, we, Scarpoint, decided to take action and call some of our friends and try to give something back to the kids that listening to our style of music. We also decided that every single Krona/ Pound/ Dollar/ Euro/ Yen/ Franc/ Peso/ Rupee/ Ruble/ Lira, whatever, that is generated by sales of this song that would normally (hopefully) find their way to us will go directly to an anti bullying campaign for Swedish schools. This project has been fully funded by us, Scarpoint, along with the generous assistance of all the people involved who gave their valuable time, knowledge and talents to the project, so there is no money needed to be recouped, and it all goes to the cause."

'Open Your Eyes' was recorded by CLAWFINGER's Jocke Skog and mixed by Jens Bogren (OPETH, AMON AMARTH, PARADISE LOST).

Guest vocalists appearing on 'Open Your Eyes' include:

Jens Kidman (MESHUGGAH)

Jimmie Strimmel (DEAD BY APRIL)

Anette Olzon (NIGHTWISH)

Björn "Speed" Strid (SOILWORK)

Henrik Englund (SCARPOINT)

Zak Tell (CLAWFINGER)

Martin Westerstrand (LYLLASYSTER)

Tom S. Englund (EVERGREY)

Peter Tägtgren (HYPOCRISY, PAIN)

Check out an audio stream and behind the scenes footage / interviews from the recording sessions below: