Sometimes, metal throws things our way that are just awesome. These works remind us exactly why heavy music is so powerful, provoking and still, after...
Oliver Turner - 04/04/2009
Back in the fog shrouded days of 2006, a band released an album that paid homage to metal and rock gods of old. This band was The Sword. The album rec...
Robbie Mackey - 27/05/2008
The Sword may be the reluctant avatars of metal's recent indie acceptance, but it's unclear what landed them in that position. Nothing about the High...
Ben Donnelly - 21/04/2008
The Sword's debut was one of those albums that presented a vision so complete, finding an audience was merely the final component. When Age of Winters...
Marc Weingarten - 11/04/2008
The Sword emerge from the lumbering sludge of Black Sabbath-style '70s metal that defined their debut, Age of Winters. Now worshipping at the '80s alt...
Jason Jackowiak - 04/04/2008
You can accuse AC/DC and Iron Maiden of essentially having made the exact same album for the past two decades, but seeing as they all but invented the...
J. NIIMI - 01/04/2008
This Austin, Texas band's riffs are so heavy they should be weighed periodically on truck scales, so that they don't violate any interstate cartage la...