Oh yes, make no mistake - The Sword’s much anticipated sophomore album is a tailor-made soundtrack to a night in front of World Of Warcraft, or round at a friend’s house with the latest edition of Dungeons and Dragons and an eighth of dodgy homegrown.
Gods Of The Earth is hair grown as long as your school rules will permit; Gods Of The Earth is sleeveless denim jackets with Sabbath patches; Gods Of The Earth is all the best and most endearing clichés of horror-fantasy heavy metal.
Hailing from Texas, the influence of the Southern metal sound is as inevitable as it is inescapable in The Sword’s music. But they’ve exchanged the tough-guy “don’t tread on me” aggression of their neighbours for glorious schlocky overstatement and an all-consuming worship of the Riff.
Tracklist:
1. The Sundering
2. The Frost-Giant's Daughter
3. How Heavy This Axe
4. Lords
5. Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians
6. To Take the Black
7. Maiden, Mother & Crone
8. Under the Boughs
9. The Black River
10. The White Sea
Link: Gods of the Earth
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