THE SWORD

Dust off the chain mail and get ready. The Sword have announced their triumphant return. Their sophomore album Gods of the Earth is complete and will be released on April 1st (which better not be some kind of joke) on Kemado. I haven’t heard anything from it yet, but I see from the track listing that it contains two songs with medieval weaponry in their titles (”How Heavy This Axe” and (my favorite) “Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians”). There are also some pretty awesome pagan goddess references (fucking metal!) with “Mother, Maiden and Crone.” I’m pretty sure it’s going to rule. Full track listing below. And for gods’ sake, catch these guys live.

1.) The Sundering
2.) How Heavy This Axe
3.) Lords
4.) Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians
5.) To Take the Black
6.) Maiden, Mother & Crone
7.) Under the Boughs
8.) The Black River
9.) The White Sea