Formed in 2009, Sweden's Steelwing was a band of fiercely talented young musicians armed with a reckless disrespect for the physiological consequences of extended headbanging. Hard-hitting, quality heavy metal is steelwing's uncompromising claim to fame. As winners of the rock the nation award 2009, Steelwing beat 1200 bands through support from the "true metal" underground and secured a worldwide record deal with the new division of rock the nation the most promosing new metal label, Noiseart records.