The Sword

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The Sword

The Sword performing in 2013 From left to right: Kyle Shutt, Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III (back), John D. Cronise and Bryan Richie.
Background information
Origin Austin, Texas, United States
Genres
Years active 2003 (2003)–present
Labels
Associated acts
Website www.theswordofficial.com
Members John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III
Past members Trivett Wingo
Kevin Fender

The Sword is an American heavy metal band from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2003, the band is composed of vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie and drummer Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III. Originally signed to Kemado Records, the group released its debut album Age of Winters in 2006, which had been largely written by Cronise prior to the band's formation. Gods of the Earth was released two years later and gave the group its first entry on the US Billboard 200 chart.

In 2010 the band released Warp Riders, a concept album centered on an original science fiction narrative, which marked the first time the band had enlisted an external producer in Matt Bayles. Wingo left the group later in the year and was replaced briefly by Kevin Fender, before Vela joined in 2011. After signing with Razor & Tie in 2012, the group released its fourth album Apocryphon which was promoted worldwide on the Apocryphon Tour. The band's fifth album, High Country, was released in 2015.

The Sword is commonly categorized as a stoner rock or doom metal band, and is influenced by groups such as Black Sabbath and Sleep. The band has toured with a wide range of fellow metal artists, including ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Year Long Disaster and Metallica on multiple occasions. The Sword's first album Age of Winters failed to chart, but subsequent releases have all gained increasing commercial success, with Apocryphon charting in the top 20 of the Billboard 200.

History

2003–2007: Formation, early years and Age of Winters

Bryan Richie was the last original member to join the band, completing the four-piece lineup in 2004.

After writing and recording music on his own for "a few years",[1] vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise formed The Sword in 2003 with guitarist Kyle Shutt and drummer Trivett Wingo.[2][3] Speaking about choosing the band's name, Cronise claims that he researched the moniker first and found it "unbelievable" that it hadn't already been used; two bands did already have the name Sword though, including a Canadian heavy metal band, and the frontman states he "narrowly escaped litigation hell" before The Sword was finalised.[4] The trio played their first show together on June 19 at Beerland in Austin,[5] and released their first demo, entitled Age of Winters, before the end of the year.[6] Bassist Bryan Richie joined to complete the four-piece lineup of the band in early 2004.[7] Prior to the formation of The Sword, Cronise and Wingo had performed together in the group Ultimate Dragons, based in Richmond, Virginia,[8] while Shutt and Richie had worked with multiple bands in Texas "united by a love of Led Zeppelin".[9] Cronise had also performed with a local band called Those Peabodys, but left as he felt he "needed to do something heavier".[8] After their first live performance together as a four-piece at Austin's Sound on Sound Records on March 17, 2004,[5] the band released their second demo, The Sword,[10] which was followed the next year by an extended play (EP) entitled Freya.[10]

After performing at the 2005 South by Southwest festival, The Sword was signed by New York-based record label Kemado Records,[2] following a recommendation by Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton.[4] The band released its debut album Age of Winters in February 2006, for which much of the material had been written by Cronise before the band's formation and featured on the band's early demos.[1][4] In support of the album the band toured throughout 2006 and 2007, with support acts including Lacuna Coil and Trivium in the United States, Nebula and Clutch in Europe, and Lamb of God in Japan.[11] In November 2006 a cover version of the song "Freya" was featured as a playable track on the video game Guitar Hero II,[12] and the original track was later released as the band's first single in September 2007.[13] Age of Winters did not chart, but received widely positive reviews from critics including AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia, who described the album as "remarkably well-balanced and almost suspiciously immediate".[14]

2007–2009: Gods of the Earth and first chart success

In June 2007 the band contributed a new song, "Under the Boughs" (which was later included on their second album), to the Kemado compilation Invaders.[15] The group also released a split EP with Swedish doom metal band Witchcraft that month, contributing new track "Sea of Spears" and a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" to the record.[3] Gods of the Earth was the band's second album, released on April 1, 2008.[3] The album, which is much more of a collaborative writing effort than its predecessor,[1] provided the band with its first Billboard 200 chart entry, reaching number 102.[16] In support of the album, the band completed the Gods of the Earth Tour supported by artists such as Machine Head, Lamb of God, and Clutch;[17] the quartet also supported heavy metal veterans Metallica on their 2008 European Vacation Tour in July,[18] and returned as the opening act for a number of legs on their World Magnetic Tour which continued through the opening months of 2009 until May.[19][20][21]

A two-disc box set containing the band's first two albums Age of Winters and Gods of the Earth was released on November 25, 2008,[3][22] and the song "The Black River" from Gods of the Earth was later included on the video game Guitar Hero: Metallica, released in March 2009.[23] The band's music was also featured in the 2009 films Jennifer's Body ("Celestial Crown")[24] and Horsemen ("Maiden, Mother & Crone"),[25] and in March 2009 The Sword won two local music awards: the High Times Doobie Award and the Austin Music Award for Best Metal Artist.[26][27]

2009–2010: Change in style and direction on Warp Riders

Kyle Shutt was the only band member besides Cronise credited for songwriting on Warp Riders.

The Sword spent the rest of 2009 writing material for their third album,[28] which took the form of "a concept album centered around an original science fiction narrative",[28] and had more of a hard rock sound than the band's previous releases.[29] Some of the new songs were debuted at the 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest in November,[30] and were also played on "a short regional tour showcasing the new songs" in January.[31] Recording for the follow-up to Gods of the Earth began in Austin at Wire Recording in February 2010;[32] Matt Bayles was hired to produce and engineer the album – a first for the band, as Cronise and Richie had respectively produced and engineered both Age of Winters and Gods of the Earth.[33] Recording of the album, titled Warp Riders, was completed by April.[34]

In May, the band contributed to a split release for the second time, covering Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat" for a Volcom Entertainment Vinyl Club release with Year Long Disaster, who covered The Sword's own track "Maiden, Mother & Crone".[35] In July, Warp Riders lead single "Tres Brujas" was released as a digital download,[36] and a live EP entitled iTunes Festival: London 2010 (recorded at the iTunes Festival in London on July 3) was also released as an iTunes-exclusive download.[37] A week after the album's August 24 release, Warp Riders surpassed the commercial performance of Gods of the Earth when it debuted at number 47 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling almost 9,000 copies in the first week of its release.[38] The band supported Metallica again on a series of September tour dates in Australia, New Zealand and Japan as warm-up for their own Warp Riders Tour, which began the following month.[39]

2010–2012: Drummer changes and Warp Riders Tour

Kevin Fender replaced founding member Trivett Wingo in 2010 and was the touring drummer for The Sword until 2011.

Five shows into the opening North American leg of the Warp Riders Tour, The Sword was forced to postpone all dates due to the departure of drummer Trivett Wingo.[40] Explaining his decision to leave, Wingo commented that he felt "physically and emotionally unable to continue on as part of [the band]",[40] and later revealed that he had predicted he would eventually leave the band for "probably a couple of years", justifying his decision by explaining that "my level of anxiety pertaining to being on tour got to the point where medication was not the answer."[41] Upon Wingo's departure from The Sword, the remaining members of the band released the following statement:

“ We wish Trivett nothing but the best, and it is with heavy hearts that we bid him farewell ... We wish he could continue the adventure with us, but we understand that the life of a touring musician is not for everyone ... The show must go on, though, and will be back on the road as soon as humanly possible.[40] ”

For the later rescheduled tour dates, Austin-based drummer Kevin Fender was enlisted to perform with Cronise, Shutt, and Richie as a temporary touring member of The Sword.[42] The second single from Warp Riders, "(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire", was released as a limited edition picture disc at the beginning of November backed with previously unreleased B-side "Farstar",[43] and later in the month the video for "Lawless Lands" – part two of the Warp Riders trilogy – was released online.[44] A number of European dates were rescheduled for May 2011,[45][46] and the third and final Warp Riders music video "Night City" was released in March.[47] The Sword returned to North America in the summer, extending the Warp Riders Tour and performing with Kyuss Lives! and MonstrO until October.[48][49]

In October 2011, Fender was replaced with Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III,[50][51] and the band saw out the rest of 2011 touring in the United States.[52] Guitarist Kyle Shutt later spoke about the drummer changes in an interview in 2012, claiming that Wingo "took a shit all over [the band]" when he left, and that Fender was chosen as he already knew how to play the group's songs.[53]

2012–2014: Record label change and return with Apocryphon

Jimmy Vela joined the band in 2011 and performed on 2012's Apocryphon.

In March 2012 it was announced that The Sword had signed a multi-album worldwide deal with New York-based label Razor & Tie, with plans for a fourth album starting with recording in June and a projected late-2012 release.[54] In May the band released the single "Hammer of Heaven", a song originally recorded in 2003 for the Age of Winters demo and later submitted for inclusion on the soundtrack to the film The Avengers.[55] In the run-up to the recording of their next album, the group only played a few shows in 2012, most notably the Metallica-organised festival Orion Music + More in June.[56]

Working with producer J. Robbins, the group recorded the follow-up to Warp Riders at Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore, Maryland between June and July 2012. The resulting album, Apocryphon, was released in October 2012;[57] it debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200 albums chart,[58] selling over 16,000 copies in its first week and providing a new chart record for the band.[59] The album was released throughout Europe by Germany-based label Napalm Records.[60] The promotional tour for the album, the Apocryphon Tour, commenced the following week in the US,[61] and continued across the world throughout the rest of 2012 and 2013.[62][63][64]

2012 and 2013 also saw The Sword expanding into business ventures outside of music, beginning in September 2012 with the release of the band's own brand of hot sauce called Tears of Fire.[65][66] The hot sauce, which is made with the 'ghost pepper' Bhut Jolokia, was first announced and revealed on the Travel Channel series Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations on September 3, before going on sale to the public the following day.[65][66] This was followed in October by the release of the band's first line of beer, Winter's Wolves Beer, produced by Baltimore, Maryland-based brewery Oliver Ales,[59][67] and in July 2013 by a second line of beer, Iron Swan, produced by Texas-based Real Ale Brewing.[63][64]

In 2014 the band released lyric videos for Apocryphon tracks "The Hidden Masters" and "Arcane Montane".[68][69] Both were also released together as a set of 7" vinyl singles, featuring remixes of each by Dylan C.[70] Later that year, the band also worked with BMX company Subrosa on its own branded model, featuring artwork by Apocryphon artist J. H. Williams III and named after Apocryphon track "Eyes of the Stormwitch".[71][72]

2014–present: International recognition with High Country

Writing for The Sword's fifth album began in late 2014,[73] which was recorded between March and April 2015 with former Grupo Fantasma guitarist Adrian Quesada as producer.[74][75][76] Prior to starting recording, the group also embarked on a short tour between March 11 and 14, visiting four cities in Louisiana, Tennessee and Oklahoma.[75][76] High Country was released on August 21, 2015 and the High Country Tour began in Europe on the same day.[77] The album was the band's first to chart outside of the US and UK, reaching number 74 on the Australian Albums Chart and number 91 on the German Albums Chart;[78][79] it reached number 30 on the US Billboard 200.[58] In 2016, the band released a recording of "John the Revelator" for Record Store Day.[80]

Style, songwriting and influence

J. D. Cronise wrote the majority of the band's early material and produced Age of Winters and Gods of the Earth.

While commonly labelled as a doom metal band, The Sword has also been identified as an example of the 'classic metal' movement of stoner rock artists influenced by early metal bands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Blue Cheer.[1] In addition to Sabbath, to whom the band is commonly compared, artists such as Sleep, Melvins and Slayer have been cited as influences by members of the band. With the release of Warp Riders, members of the band acknowledged that fans with a more "narrow-minded" view of heavy metal may feel alienated by stylistic changes.[81] Eduardo Rivadavia of allmusic describes the band as being "at the forefront of … the 'heritage' or 'retro metal' movement,"[82] comparing their style to that of heavy metal veterans Black Sabbath and vocalist Cronise to Ozzy Osbourne.[82][83] Rolling Stone also likens the band to Sabbath,[84] as does AbsolutePunk.net in its review of Gods of the Earth, claiming that "It's impossible not to compare [the album] to the works of Black Sabbath."[85]

While every member of the band contributes to the musical compositions, Cronise is the primary writer of the band's lyrics.[83] He often uses Norse mythology as a topic in his lyrics,[10] notably in the song "Freya",[86] but cites literature as his main influence, identifying such authors as George R. R. Martin, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft and Arthur C. Clarke as inspirations.[1] On Warp Riders, Cronise was again credited for writing all the lyrics, and only guitarist Kyle Shutt was added to the credits for the musical compositions.[87]

The band has cited Black Sabbath as a major influence, in addition to doom trio Sleep, sludge band the Melvins, thrash veterans Slayer, and heavy metal icons Iron Maiden and Deep Purple, among others.[86] The band's guitarists, in discussions of their musical influences, have identified 'classic' metal guitar players such as James Hetfield of Metallica, Pantera's Dimebag Darrell and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath, and Cronise has also described Billy Gibbons (of ZZ Top) as a "huge influence."[88] In an interview with entertainment newspaper The A.V. Club, Cronise also revealed that local metal band HRM, rock musician Bob Seger and R&B singer Michael Jackson have been influences on The Sword's sound.[8]

Band members

Current members
Former members
  • Trivett Wingo – drums, percussion (2003–2010)
Touring members
  • Kevin Fender – drums (2010–2011)

Discography

Main article: The Sword discography

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