Dynamic Austin, Texas-based quartet THE SWORD have announced UK tour dates in support of their critically acclaimed album, “Age of Winters”.  THE SWORD will team up with heralded hard rock unit CLUTCH for a string of live dates set to launch April 3.  The band will perform live in London on April 8 at the Mean Fiddler. Dates for the trek can be found here.

THE SWORD (guitarist / singer J.D. Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie and drummer Trivett Wingo), who’s thick, molten sound combines metal’s beloved past with the forward-thinking enthusiasm of today’s heavy music elite, deliver exhilarating songs - featuring huge riffs and intense drumming - that are at once melodious, catchy and punishing.  “Age of Winters” appeared near the top of a host of UK publications’ “Best of 2006″ polls, including those from Metal Hammer, Classic Rock and Rock Sound.  THE SWORD’s dynamic sound has been called “a clinic in SABBATH-influenced heavy metal”, while “Age of Winters” has been hailed as “the new classic-Black Sabbath platter you have been waiting forever for the old Sabs to make” by Rolling Stone.

To coincide with the tour, THE SWORD will issue a new single and video for the song “Freya” (from “Age of Winters”).   A special “Freya” tour 7″ will also be pressed, strictly limited to 1000 copies and backed with a live version of the monolithic “Age of Winters” track ‘Iron Swan’, recorded live at NYC’s infamous CBGB’s just prior to the historic venue’s closing.  The striking “Freya” video was shot on HD film using a unique mixture of black and white and color, and details the story of “Freya”, who “appears on a battlefield after a battle and wanders through the corpses looking for warriors to take back to Folkvang”.  A still shot from “Freya” can be viewed at this location.

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