List of songs recorded by the Sword explained

The Sword is an American heavy metal band formed in Austin, Texas in 2003. The band released its debut album Age of Winters in 2006; the songs on the album were largely written by frontman J. D. Cronise before the band's formation, although the musical compositions were credited to the band as a whole.[1] In 2007 the band contributed the track "Sea of Spears" to a split extended play (EP) with Swedish band Witchcraft, which was credited to Cronise and guitarist Kyle Shutt, as well as a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song".[2] In 2008 the band released its second album Gods of the Earth, which was again credited to Cronise (lyrics) and the band as a whole (music),[3] as well as the single "Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians" which featured the previously unreleased track "Codex Corvidae" as the B-side.[4]

After contributing a cover version of Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat" to a split single with Year Long Disaster in March,[5] The Sword released its third studio album Warp Riders in August 2010, the music for which was credited to Cronise and Shutt.[6] Second single "(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire" featured another previously unreleased track as a B-side, "Farstar".[7] The band signed with Razor & Tie in 2012, and released the non-album single "Hammer of Heaven" in May that year, a song written by Cronise during the sessions for Age of Winters.[8] The band's fourth album Apocryphon, the first to feature drummer Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III, followed in October and returned to crediting the music to the whole band.[9]

Songs

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SongCredited writer(s)ReleaseYearRef.Notes
"Acheron/Unearthing the Orb"John D. Cronise2010[10]
"Agartha"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[11]
"Apocryphon"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[12]
"Arcane Montane" John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[13]
"Arrows in the Dark"John D. Cronise2010[14]
"Astraea's Dream"Kyle Shutt
Trivett Wingo
2010[15]
"Barael's Blade"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2006[16]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[17]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[18]
"Buzzards"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[19]
"Celestial Crown"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2006[20]
"Cheap Sunglasses"Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill
Frank Beard
2012[21]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2010[22]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2010[23]
"Cloak of Feathers" John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[24]
"Codex Corvidae"John D. Cronise2008[25]
"Cold Sweat" Phil Lynott
John Sykes
2010[26]
"Daughter of Dawn"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
2010[27]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[28]
"Dying Earth"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[29]
"Early Snow"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[30]
"Ebethron"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2006[31]
"Empty Temples"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[32]
"Execrator"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[33]
"Eyes of the Stormwitch"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[34]
"Farstar"2010[35]
"Fire Lances of the Ancient
Hyperzephyrians"
John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[36]
"Freya" John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2006[37]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[38]
"Ghost Eye"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[39]
"Hammer of Heaven" John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[40]
"Hawks & Serpents"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[41]
"He's Waiting"Gerry Roslie2008[42]
"Hexenringe"2015[43]
"" John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[44]
"High Country" John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[45]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2006[46]
"How Heavy This Axe"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[47]
"Immigrant Song"Jimmy Page
Robert Plant
2007[48]
"Iron Swan"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2006[49]
"Lament for the Aurochs"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2006[50]
"Lawless Lands"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
2010[51]
"Lords"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[52]
"Maiden, Mother & Crone"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[53]
"March of the Lor"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[54]
"Mist & Shadow"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[55]
"Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings"Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill
Frank Beard
2008[56]
"Night City"John D. Cronise2010[57]
"" John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2010[58]
"Sea of Spears"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
2007[59]
"Seriously Mysterious"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[60]
"Seven Sisters"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[61]
"Silver Petals"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[62]
"Suffer No Fools"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[63]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[64]
"Tears Like Diamonds"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[65]
"To Take the Black"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[66]
"Tres Brujas" John D. Cronise
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2010[67]
"Turned to Dust"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[68]
"Under the Boughs"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[69]
"Unicorn Farm"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2015[70]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Santiago Vela
2012[71]
""John D. Cronise2010[72]
""John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2008[73]
"Winter's Wolves"John D. Cronise
Kyle Shutt
Bryan Richie
Trivett Wingo
2006[74]

External links

Notes and References

  1. . . 2006 . .
  2. . . 2007 . .
  3. . . 2008 . .
  4. "Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians" . . 2008 . .
  5. "Cold Sweat/Maiden, Mother & Crone" . . 2010 . .
  6. . . 2010 . .
  7. "(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire" . . 2010 . .
  8. "Hammer of Heaven" . . 2012 . .
  9. . . 2012 . .
  10. Web site: Acheron/Unearthing The Orb . . August 11, 2016 .
  11. Web site: Agartha - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  12. Web site: Apocryphon . . August 11, 2016 .
  13. Web site: Arcane Montane - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  14. Web site: Arrows In The Dark . . August 11, 2016 .
  15. Web site: Astraea's Dream . . August 11, 2016 .
  16. Web site: Barael's Blade . . August 11, 2016 .
  17. Web site: The Bees Of Spring - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  18. Web site: The Black River . . August 11, 2016 .
  19. Web site: Buzzards - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  20. Web site: Celestial Crown . . August 11, 2016 .
  21. Web site: Cheap Sunglasses - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  22. Web site: The Chronomancer I: Hubris . . August 11, 2016 .
  23. Web site: The Chronomancer II: Nemesis . . August 11, 2016 .
  24. Web site: Cloak of Feathers - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  25. Web site: Codex Corvidae . . August 11, 2016 .
  26. Web site: Recording "Cold Sweat" . . . August 11, 2016 .
  27. Web site: Recording "Daughter of Dawn" . . . August 11, 2016 .
  28. Web site: The Dreamthieves - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  29. Web site: Dying Earth . . August 11, 2016 .
  30. Web site: Early Snow - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  31. Web site: Ebethron . . August 11, 2016 .
  32. Web site: Empty Temples - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  33. Web site: Execrator - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  34. Web site: Eyes of the Stormwitch - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  35. Web site: Farstar - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  36. Web site: Fire Lances Of The Ancient Hyperzephyrians . . August 11, 2016 .
  37. Web site: Freya . . August 11, 2016 .
  38. Web site: The Frost-Giant's Daughter . . August 11, 2016 .
  39. Web site: Ghost Eye - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  40. Web site: Hammer Of Heaven . . August 11, 2016 .
  41. Web site: Hawks And Serpents . . August 11, 2016 .
  42. Web site: The Sword - Gods Of The Earth (CD, Album) . . August 11, 2016 .
  43. Web site: The Sword - High Country (Vinyl) . . August 11, 2016 .
  44. Web site: The Hidden Masters - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  45. Web site: High Country - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  46. Web site: The Horned Goddess . . August 11, 2016 .
  47. Web site: How Heavy This Axe . . August 11, 2016 .
  48. Web site: Recording "Immigrant Song" . . . August 11, 2016 .
  49. Web site: Iron Swan . . August 11, 2016 .
  50. Web site: Lament For The Aurochs . . August 11, 2016 .
  51. Web site: Lawless Lands . . August 11, 2016 .
  52. Web site: Lords . . August 11, 2016 .
  53. Web site: Maiden, Mother & Crone . . August 11, 2016 .
  54. Web site: March Of The Lor . . August 11, 2016 .
  55. Web site: Mist & Shadow . . August 11, 2016 .
  56. Web site: Nasty Dogs - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  57. Web site: Night City . . August 11, 2016 .
  58. Web site: Tears Of Fire . . August 11, 2016 .
  59. Web site: Sea Of Spears . . August 11, 2016 .
  60. Web site: Seriously Mysterious - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  61. Web site: Seven Sisters - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  62. Web site: Silver Petals - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  63. Web site: Suffer No Fools - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  64. Web site: The Sundering . . August 11, 2016 .
  65. Web site: Tears Like Diamonds - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  66. Web site: To Take The Black . . August 11, 2016 .
  67. Web site: Tres Brujas . . August 11, 2016 .
  68. Web site: Turned to Dust - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  69. Web site: Under The Boughs . . August 11, 2016 .
  70. Web site: Unicorn Farm - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  71. Web site: The Veil of Isis - The Sword: Song Info . . . August 11, 2016 .
  72. Web site: Warp Riders . . August 11, 2016 .
  73. Web site: The White Sea . . August 11, 2016 .
  74. Web site: Winter's Wolves . . August 11, 2016 .