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THE SWORD TO UNSHEATH NEW ALBUM ON APRIL FOOL’S DAY

 Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 1:27pm by

the sword promo pic

According to our esteemed colleagues over at Blabbermouth.net, Austin-based Sabbath-inspired metallic rockers The Sword will unveil their second full-length album, entitled Gods of the Earth, on April 1st. Although…that would make a hell of a joke, right? Announce the release date as April Fool’s Day, and then when it rolls around, hold back the album for another week or something?

I truly played out the band’s first record, Age of Winters, so much so that I have been ready for a new one for almost two years now. And it seems the wait is almost over, what with the mixing on Gods already completed and first single “Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians” scheduled for release on a 10″ vinyl EP on March 18th.

Blabbermouth proclaims the new material as “more ambitious, more accomplished and simply bigger”, with “huge, mountaintop-friendly hooks, thunderous drumming and oceanic bass lines [that] cut through the air like a scythe, while the ominous vocals of frontman J.D. Cronise weave fantastical tales rife with myth and mythology.”

Sounds pretty promising…

-KW

  • http://www.jonesyandthewayne.com Wayne

    I hate that we have to wait that long. I love the new songs they’ve been doing live recently.

  • http://www.metalsucks.net Axl Rosenberg

    Is that really a pic of the band? Who the fuck is that chick on the left?!

  • http://www.metalsucks.net Kip Wingerschmidt

    That chick on the far left is Kyle the guitar player, and believe it or not, she’s actually a DUDE.

  • http://www.metalsucks.net Axl Rosenberg

    WHOA… dude, you’re rocking my world

  • http://www.hibernum.net Hibernum

    They look like a bunch of hipster geeks. Can I punch them?

  • attackmole

    Look like hipsters they might, but these guys write the best old school stoner doom riffs since Sabbath. They can dress up like clowns for all I care if they keep writing songs like they did on their debut.

  • lucas

    these guys are totally a low-rent sleep. of course, i am an older gentleman… i remember a time when i was a boy when sabbath-influenced bands were fucking AWESOME. saw these pukes with clutch last year, and after i heard the song they had on guitar hero (which should have been a goddamn red flag right there) figured they might not be so bad. i was wrong.

    there is sleep’s holy mountain. there is sleep’s dopesmoker. there is no need for the sword to ever do anything, ever. the sword is a knife to a gunfight.

    keep hipsters the hell away from heavy music! if you don’t, you get a whole bunch of people who never listened to metal sucking mastodon’s dick like they’re the fucking second coming.

  • Retrograde

    Do they bring the riff? Yes. End of story

  • lucas

    they bring the riff as hard as any regional stoner rock outfit does. i will give them that. they are easily as good as many bands from say, columbus or youngstown, ohio.

    if it weren’t for them showing up on guitar hero, they’d be playing some local bar somewhere.