The Sword - Lawless Lands

Finally got the Yanks in The Sword the time with a visit to Stockholm, last time they were required to cancell the show. This chilly Saturday coiled the queue extremely far, everyone wanted to witness The Sword live. Support during this tour is Norwegian Lonely Kamel and Swedish Bombus.

I arrive a little late, hangs in the jacket when the song Biblical with Bombus starts and directly senses that this will to become a top night. Bombus delivers its Bombusrock in a brilliant way, it is bearded, heavy and groovy. Bit of a shame that I missed most of their gig, had wanted to see more. Lonely Kamel was the band number two to play, but I will return about it tomorrow.

The intro to the Apocryphon launches The Swords set, a little longer than expected because the curtain stuck once again, stuck already at Lonely camel set. But once it is turned up the guys on the stage and the cheering is enormous inside at Debaser. When Tres Brujas played as song number two are my smiling up in splits and misses to take photos completely for about 5 minutes, what a overrun.

The new tracks do really well live and find a nice balance between the band's older albums and their more technical direction on Warp Riders. However, it was the older songs that are the band's classics, not surprisingly, they got the biggest reaction from the audience. I'm thinking of songs like Freya, Tres Brujas, and the Maiden, Mother & Crone, where fans sang, danced and waved extra with their fists. Overall, the evening and the show was completely up to my expectations of a fun and rocked evening which one had longed for a long time, you can read my review on WeRock.

Setlist:

Apocryphon
Tres Brujas
How Heavy This Axe
Cloak of Feathers
The Hidden Masters
Dying Earth
Maiden, Mother & Crone
To Take the Black
Freya
Eyes of the Stormwitch
Seven Sisters
Lawless Lands
Ebethron
Veil of Isis

Encore:
Cheap Sunglasses (ZZ Top cover)
Arrows in the Dark

Here is some pictures from the show:

 

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 New York-based independent label Kemado Records, the group released its debut album Age of Winters, which was largely written by Cronise before the band's formation, in 2006. The follow-up, Gods of the Earth, was released two years later.

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 (Matt Bayles). Original drummer Trivett Wingo left the group later in the year, and was replaced briefly by Kevin Fender before Vela joined in 2011. After leaving Kemado and signing with Razor & Tie in early 2012, the group released its fourth album Apocryphon in October, which will be promoted on the Apocryphon Tour throughout 2012 and 2013.

The Sword is commonly categorized as a doom metal or stoner metal band, and is heavily influenced by such groups as Black Sabbath and Sleep. The group has toured with a wide range of fellow metal artists, including local band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead and stoner group Year Long Disaster, and has also been chosen to support Metallica on a number of recent tours.

Todays tune "Lawless Lands" is taken from the third studio album "Warp Riders", it was released by Kemado Records in August 2010. Warp Riders was written and recorded as a concept album centred on an original science fiction narrative written by vocalist and guitarist John Cronise, and marks a conscious change in style from doom metal to a more hard rock-influenced sound.



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