The Sword - Age of Winters
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Free Music Review: thunder of the gods
Hit: 4 Stars
valhalla!!!! the hairy gods of modern metal have arisen from the nordic slumber of one thousand years. and they have done so with a mighty vengance and the hammer of thor. all imitators and false prophets beware. there will be no escape from the final judgement to be handed down like a thunderbolt from the dark and brooding skies. guitar riffs and and hellhounds abound in this bombastic expression of male libido and ego. four stars for technicality and raw power. the darkness will be touring with metallica in a city near you. enjoy the show!Free Music Review: First-rate heavy metal!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like thick, deliberate, catchy riffs, a leader singer that actually "sings" (instead of grumbling), and an unmistakable Sabbath influence, this is the album you've been looking for. Rock and Roll is not dead, and these guys prove it!Free Music Review: Sabbath should fell the new lords groove!!! WOW heavy
Hit: 5 Stars
based on what i heard of the samples this is heavy black sabbath style thunderous groove,and power that you couldn't try to deny.I'm buying this now it's so heavy it makes the hair on my arms stand up!this is great!!!Free Music Review: The Sword - Black Sabbath For A New Generation
Hit: 4 Stars
The Sword are a relatively new band from Austin Texas who would really love to be the second coming of Black Sabbath. The music here is very similar to Ozzy era Sabbath and although they do it very well, the material is somewhat derivative. The main knock on this band is the vocals. They have two guys who sing neither of which have very good voices. Upon repeated listening I got used to them and they don't bother me as much as when I first picked this up, but the vocals are definitely the weak link in this band. The music is riff heavy and thick. Again, very much in the same vein as Black Sabbath. The lyrics are mainly sword and sorcery stuff which personally I like, but will not be everyone's cup of tea. This album grew on me with each successive listen and I really enjoy it a lot. It will be interesting to see how these guys expand their sound as they get more experience. If you like Ozzy era Sabbath you should eat this one up. For younger people into The Sword go back and check out early Sabbath for the origins of this sound.Free Music Review: "A warrior's hand and a wizard's mind to wield..."
Hit: 5 Stars
The Sword is the anomaly you've been waiting for: a metal album by nerds who rock huge. Many would-be lovers of heavy metal are put off by the reigning machismo and anti-intellectualism of so many of the genre's dominant bands. (To say nothing of the fans: nowhere is the bottom 10% of your high-school's graduating class so well represented as at a Slayer show.) But when the alternatives to this aggressive dumbness are the inacessibility of avant-garde heaviness-for-heaviness's sake (Sunn O)))) or "music" by and for postapocalyptic cyborgs (Dillinger Escape Plan, Meshuggah) the thoughtful headbanger starts to wonder, "Is there no band that will satisfy both my wizard AND my warrior?"
The Sword is this band. Many reviewers have praised The Sword's Promethean gift of riffs, which will keep me playing air guitar for years to come. But the rare pleasure here is the lyrics. Anybody can churn out rhymes based on pop fantasy and SF, but it takes just a little more energy to quote W. B. Yeats in your liner notes. Just a gimmick to catch college English majors with the honey of literary canonicity? Mabye. But these lyrics deliver on the promise of this epigraph, offering an album-length elegy for make-believe times past. In a scene where most lyricists lack the time to read books because they're too busy lifting weights or watching NASCAR, The Sword's willingness to send you to the dictionary (sibyl, aurochs) and remind you how much of your vocabulary you learned from Dungeons and Dragons (dais, vorpal) is as refreshing as a wind from the forbidden mountains of the Goblin-King.