Sword (The) - Gods Of The Earth reviews
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| Austinchronicle |
 "Hear the horns, pounding hooves," prophesies JD Cronise in "Lords," as galloping guitars conjure "visions of cities aflame." "Die by the sword or in chains." The omen could pass as a mission statement for Austin's premier alchemists, who live by the code and take no prisoners on sophomore LP Gods of the Earth. Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Sword seeks and destroys, carving chronicles of serpents and sorcery without retracing the Nordic frost of 2005 debut Age of Winters....full text |
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| Courant. |
In the great debate over what constitutes hipster metal, the Sword, along with Early Man, and probably soon enough Dead Child, are a lightning rod for controversy. Either the musicians are sincere in their heaviness, or they're nothing but hipster leeches trying to scavenge some cool from metal. It's a funny argument, given that the Sword's brand of stoner metal isn't exactly cool.
But what really seems to get lost in all this discussion about intents and purposes is the music itself. Luckily, the Sword has avoided the dreaded sophomore slump and delivered a CD that builds on its debut with heavier riffs and a better sense of dynamics. J.D. Cronise's vocals are still the same — reedy and menacing, on songs populated with guttural riffs and lyrical imagery drawn from Norse mythology — but that's part of the charm....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| When history looks back on the first decade of heavy metal's 21st century resurgence, it will do so through the increasingly vast libraries of Guitar Hero. The Sword unleashed a gloriously unpretentious and multi-hued slab of Black Sabbath-inspired doom-retro-stoner-whatever metal on 2006's Age of Winters, casting out a lure for both current heavy metal fans and those who left the fold when hair metal brought the preeminent outsider music in to be devoured and nearly destroyed by the general public. "Barael's Blade" and "Winter's Wolves" sounded like relics unearthed in the basement of a Birmingham steel mill during the initial New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, a genre that the Austin, TX, quartet seems intent on re-resurrecting on its sophomore release, Gods of the Earth....full text |
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