The Sword

The Sword have announced six warm up shows routing to the Metallica-curated Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City on June 23 from their home base of Austin, Texas. Following the Orion Festival appearance, the band will commence recording their debut album for Razor & Tie, scheduled for release in the fall. ...

The Sword has signed a new, multi-album worldwide deal with New York City based label, Razor & Tie. After releasing three critically acclaimed albums on Kemado Records, the Austin, Texas based quartet featuring guitarist/vocalist J.D. Cr...

Blood and stop-motion were the weapons of metal videos this year. Some made great uses of digital technology, and others lost themselves in the edits. Vampire nurses, blood-soaked ladies, space travel -- 2010 had it all. But it's so easy to miss a video in the myriad of premieres...

Austin rockers the Sword have regrouped and found a replacement for departed drummer Trivett Wingo. They've also rescheduled their canceled tour dates. How's that for bouncing back on the quick? Employer, Employee drummer Kevin Fender will sit behind the kit for the Sword on this upcoming run of dates...

UPDATE: See our final list of the best metal videos of 2010. 2010 has been a great year for metal videos, crying out for a best-of list. Fan-made brutality, animation, space travel -- 2010's had it all. But it's so easy to miss a video in the myriad of premieres, so out of hope that nothing gets left out, we here at Noisecreep offer up our best of the best metal videos so far this year... Read Mor

Action! PR, the full-service, boutique agency run by former Relapse PR maven Carl Schultz that represents artists like High on Fire, the Sword and a host of others, will sponsor their first official South by Southwest showcase on March 17 at The Mohawk...

There's a bit of an interesting twist to 'The Trial,' a track from Los Angeles-based psychedelic doom rockers Ancestors, which we here at Noisecreep are proud to be able to bring to you, ahead of the release next week of the band's sophomore LP, 'Of Sound Mind...

Do you think most true metalheads want to visit Sweden at some point? Lately, I've been thinking about taking a trip. But where? Not really jazzed about going to some resort and sitting in the sun all day ... black clothing attracts heat. I'm not so interested in taking too long a plane ride...

Today's going to be a good day, because today, the Noisecreep crew's taping our second official podcast. We'll start rolling at 1 PM, and we'll be discussing all the week's big metal news, all the latest heavy releases and some of the dudes from Evile will even be in the studio to take part...

They say the news is always happening, but this weekend, the metal news took something of a respite. Seriously. It was a rather slow two days, probably because everyone was outside and far from their computers. Here in New York City, at least, we had two solid straight days of sunshine...