| Sword, The / Gods Of The Earth |
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| Album: | Gods Of The Earth | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Sword, The | Added: | Apr 2008 | |
| Label: | Kemado Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-05-18 | Pull Date: | 2008-07-20 | Charts: | Loud |
| Week Ending: | Jul 13 | Jul 6 | Jun 22 | Jun 15 | Jun 8 | Jun 1 | May 25 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 25, 2010: | public noize racket The White Sea | 4. | Jul 05, 2008: | Brown Stains on Your Silk Sheets The White Sea | |
| 2. | Oct 21, 2009: | public noize racket The Sundering | 5. | Jul 02, 2008: | Baptism of Solitude The Sundering | |
| 3. | Jul 09, 2008: | Baptism of Solitude Lords | 6. | Jun 21, 2008: | Bloodstains Across Atherton Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians |
| Album Review |
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| Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2008-05-13 | ||
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Doom/Sludge Metal from Austin, Texas. In the vein (somesay it’s a total rip off) of High On Fire & Sleep. Although there’s a lot of Big Business and weirdly enough - a bit of Witchfinder General and ‘Maiden at work. The anti-hipsters and the hipsters have it both wrong: the band seems to have their heart in the right place and they have the all important ingredients: loud riffs, pounding drums, and (mostly) good vocals. That’s all you need sometimes. Derrative? Yep. Good? Oh, yeah. (((((1))))) Extremely riffy instrumental, thick & full sound. Rides into yer ears with that “metal march”.. Awesome! ((((2)))) Classic 80’s doom vibe with a lot of bombast. Rather good drums, too. ((((3)))) Groove-based riffage mixing one part Thin Lizzy and two parts Big Business & a bit of Sleep. ((((4)))) A little ‘Maiden, Big Business and High On Fire mixed into a tasty ‘lil (smokeable?) bowl. ((((5)))) Fast & battering – almost thrash for a few bars & up tempo fairly heavy, calculated mid-paced modern metal. Title’s probably from Michael Moorcock er sumethin’. ((((6)))) Slow acoustic intro then bam! Riff riff riff – insta stoner rawk jams. If it ain’t broke… ((((7)))) Tuned low enough to make every Sabbath black - But damn does it sound good & NOT like a bunch of lameasses being “ironic”. ((((8)))) Catchy as hell, ever building riffs and tempo. ((((9)))) More moves towards dual harmony guitars (‘ala ‘Maiden, Thin Lizzy), doomy and mostly resonating tones/riffs. (((((10))))) Flanger and “spacey stoner rock”/doom metal (really sounds like both). Consistent as hell, too. ((((11)))) Nice acoustic psych jam. | ||
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