High Country was a change for sure but it really grew on me. Used Future same deal. That interview confirmed my thoughts that they were purposely not wanting to be pigeon holed but their true calling is the harder stuff like the first four albums you can tell. Great band!!!!
Agree! If you scout around the comments some people have suggested a few, but not exactly the same sound. Check out Visigoth's track Mammoth Rider if you haven't heard it. Comes kinda close 🤘 -Michael
Check out the band Wo Fat if you haven't heard them. 3 piece band out of Texas. The Conjuring or Black Code albums I recommend, although they all are killer. They have the heavy Sabbathy riffs mixed in with some tripped out Psychedelic stuff. Long songs...
Wolftooth sounds a lot like The Sword (very much like the Warp Riders and Apocryphon era). Sounds like a bot listened to all of The Sword's albums and then wrote new songs.
The Sword is my favorite metal band since Iron Maiden debuted. Warp Riders is a perfect album, so rifftastic. And you mentioned Graveyard, and they happen to be be my favorite band since The Sword debuted! 😝 Hisingen Blues is a fantastic album, not one bad song on it. Both bands seem to take inspiration from the '70s music scene, with The Sword having a heavy Black Sabbath influenced sound and Graveyard with a strong blues-doom sound, with a retro sound.
Great video. Age of Winters is likely my favourite after Jocko Willink spoke about Iron Swan, which prompted me to explore the album. It turns out it was a headbanger of note.
If you like The Sword, you should really check out Swedish doom metal band Grand Magus - Freya's choice is a good song to check out. Or Witchcraft - 'Its not because of you', 'Queen of bees', 'Wooden cross', are some really good songs. \m/
As far as I'm aware, The Sword is on a hiatus. I haven't heard anything new from them in a few years. But they released the live album in 2020 so maybe they're planning a comeback. Also, Dreamthieves kinda reminds me of Deep Purple.
Definitely Deep Purple-ish. Hope they come out with something new sooner rather than later. Did you see their recent cover of Rush's working man? -Michael
Why is it that every cool thing I find and get into is already dead? I discovered them with the song How Heavy This Axe, I proceed to download and listen to their whole discography on Spotify, and I hear their sound change *drastically* over the course of it and learned they disbanded some time ago. Huge fucking bummer, but maybe it's for the best. Their early stuff was SUPER inspired, being a rather unique mashup of distinctive vocals, swords & sorcery, stoner metal with prog like licks, etc. It's SOOOO gooood but they went really generic later on and dropped the metal altogether by the end. Huge bummer. I wouldn't have minded at all if they just went sci-fi while keeping the metal like in Warp Riders. God, the metal is what they did best but it still had to go for some unholy reason. Again, it's probably for the best. Just like Opeth, if you're not feeling it anymore, it'll show and I guess these guys just want to explore other things. I just wish they said as much instead of saying it's too well tread. In the last few years, metal in general has made a rather big resurgence, particularly in the gaming community.
Hey, thanks for this review, believe The Sword excellent & are very underrated... recommend/spotlight request on Grand Magus smashing proper metal band, 1970s influence but contemporary as well, with ultimate stormy VIKING vibe... best straight metal seems to be coming out of Scandinavia with a 70s purple influence...?
@@MetalAcademix Great! Last band I saw the week before lockdown here and were awesome! Now reduced to watching past Wacken shows for a metal fix... so appreciate the channel!
@@embersindiana550 Haha, I know the feeling all to well! Just tuned into Grand Magnus as I'm editing up some videos for future content - loving it! (Triumph and Power FTW ⚔️🤘⚔️) Super heavy, definitely get the connection to the Sword. For some reason they remind me of Bullet from Sweden (something like 'Fuel the Fire') - different vocals and production but might be worth checking out. Cheers, and thanks again for the tip - these guys are great! -Michael
i understand why people say "stonermetal" i had the kyuss qotsa feelin sometimes, but do they play the guitars over a bass amp or just smoke alot? anyway, real cool stuff, as always. keep rocking
The sound is coming from custom-made guitar pedals, at least according to this interview: www.premierguitar.com/articles/20499-rig-rundown-the-sword. -Anamaria
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High Country was a change for sure but it really grew on me. Used Future same deal. That interview confirmed my thoughts that they were purposely not wanting to be pigeon holed but their true calling is the harder stuff like the first four albums you can tell. Great band!!!!
Love Gods of the Earth and Warp Riders!! Thank you for doing a video on this band!!!
I love this band! Really underrated in the metal scene
The first three Sword albums are dear to me and I’ve searched for other bands with a similar sound to no avail. March of the Lor is my war cry.
Agree! If you scout around the comments some people have suggested a few, but not exactly the same sound. Check out Visigoth's track Mammoth Rider if you haven't heard it. Comes kinda close 🤘 -Michael
Check out the band Wo Fat if you haven't heard them. 3 piece band out of Texas. The Conjuring or Black Code albums I recommend, although they all are killer. They have the heavy Sabbathy riffs mixed in with some tripped out Psychedelic stuff. Long songs...
Wolftooth sounds a lot like The Sword (very much like the Warp Riders and Apocryphon era). Sounds like a bot listened to all of The Sword's albums and then wrote new songs.
, Witchcraft, Lowrider, Dozer, and Graveyard from Sweden are pretty close, all awesome bands, Solace from New Jersey is sick too as well as Clutch..
The Sword is my favorite metal band since Iron Maiden debuted. Warp Riders is a perfect album, so rifftastic.
And you mentioned Graveyard, and they happen to be be my favorite band since The Sword debuted! 😝 Hisingen Blues is a fantastic album, not one bad song on it.
Both bands seem to take inspiration from the '70s music scene, with The Sword having a heavy Black Sabbath influenced sound and Graveyard with a strong blues-doom sound, with a retro sound.
Great video. Age of Winters is likely my favourite after Jocko Willink spoke about Iron Swan, which prompted me to explore the album. It turns out it was a headbanger of note.
I just saw these guys open for primus in Houston, they were soooooo good, and they covered ZZ Top’s cheap sunglasses
Can definitely hear the late 70's influences, they remind me of Cathedral.
Hi guys! Great review! Would love to hear your thoughts on Jakob - Blind Them With Science. Cheers!
If you like The Sword, you should really check out Swedish doom metal band Grand Magus - Freya's choice is a good song to check out. Or Witchcraft - 'Its not because of you', 'Queen of bees', 'Wooden cross', are some really good songs. \m/
I think empty temples is the other good song on high country. I dig them doing what they want to do
Arcane Montane is a Masterpiece if you haven't heard it.
As far as I'm aware, The Sword is on a hiatus. I haven't heard anything new from them in a few years. But they released the live album in 2020 so maybe they're planning a comeback.
Also, Dreamthieves kinda reminds me of Deep Purple.
Definitely Deep Purple-ish. Hope they come out with something new sooner rather than later. Did you see their recent cover of Rush's working man? -Michael
@@MetalAcademix I hope so too. And I haven't seen that. I will have to check that out. I have to admit that I'm not a big fan of Rush though lol
Why is it that every cool thing I find and get into is already dead? I discovered them with the song How Heavy This Axe, I proceed to download and listen to their whole discography on Spotify, and I hear their sound change *drastically* over the course of it and learned they disbanded some time ago. Huge fucking bummer, but maybe it's for the best. Their early stuff was SUPER inspired, being a rather unique mashup of distinctive vocals, swords & sorcery, stoner metal with prog like licks, etc. It's SOOOO gooood but they went really generic later on and dropped the metal altogether by the end. Huge bummer. I wouldn't have minded at all if they just went sci-fi while keeping the metal like in Warp Riders. God, the metal is what they did best but it still had to go for some unholy reason.
Again, it's probably for the best. Just like Opeth, if you're not feeling it anymore, it'll show and I guess these guys just want to explore other things. I just wish they said as much instead of saying it's too well tread. In the last few years, metal in general has made a rather big resurgence, particularly in the gaming community.
Hey, thanks for this review, believe The Sword excellent & are very underrated... recommend/spotlight request on Grand Magus smashing proper metal band, 1970s influence but contemporary as well, with ultimate stormy VIKING vibe... best straight metal seems to be coming out of Scandinavia with a 70s purple influence...?
Haven't heard of them but your pitch ticks all the boxes...will definitely give 'em a listen, thanks! -Michael
@@MetalAcademix Great! Last band I saw the week before lockdown here and were awesome! Now reduced to watching past Wacken shows for a metal fix... so appreciate the channel!
@@embersindiana550 Haha, I know the feeling all to well! Just tuned into Grand Magnus as I'm editing up some videos for future content - loving it! (Triumph and Power FTW ⚔️🤘⚔️)
Super heavy, definitely get the connection to the Sword. For some reason they remind me of Bullet from Sweden (something like 'Fuel the Fire') - different vocals and production but might be worth checking out. Cheers, and thanks again for the tip - these guys are great! -Michael
@@MetalAcademix thanks, I'll check Bullet, & also band Spiritual Beggars where Magus singer JB started off, very 70s hard rock w Hammond organ...
i understand why people say "stonermetal" i had the kyuss qotsa feelin sometimes, but do they play the guitars over a bass amp or just smoke alot? anyway, real cool stuff, as always. keep rocking
The sound is coming from custom-made guitar pedals, at least according to this interview: www.premierguitar.com/articles/20499-rig-rundown-the-sword. -Anamaria
Funny that this is considered stoner metal cause i definitely got into them when i smoked a ton of weed lol
do apocryphon next