Biography
Forest Swords is the stage name of English composer, record producer and artist Matthew Barnes. Based in the Wirral, he has released three studio albums and worked extensively as a composer for film, television, video games and dance.
His scoring credits include the original music for the documentaries Ghosts of Sugar Land (2019) and Stephen (2023), the drone-shot short In the Robot Skies (2016), and the feature film Wasteman (2026). He also composed the soundtrack for the video game As Dusk Falls (2022) and created scores for contemporary dance pieces and an opera production.
