Giveaway: The Sword Night Two @ The Mohawk [Saturday]

Hard rock and metal fans in Central Texas have been blessed with some amazing concerts in the last year and a half. Iron Maiden brought their nostalgic “Somewhere Back In Time” tour to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Selma last year, Metallica sought and destroyed at Stubb’s this past SXSW, and just last month, Tool’s obvious genius was showcased at the AT&T Center in San Antonio. Now we can take a step back from those mammoth gigs and look to Austin’s very own metal icons to put the heavy back in metal -- Austinist is proud to present two nights of The Sword this weekend at The Mohawk -- enter the form below for a chance to win two tickets to Saturday’s show.

In 2003, J. D. Cronise, the brainchild behind the band, recruited like-minded warriors Trivett Wingo, Kyle Shutt, and Bryan Richie, and the following year, The Sword was unsheathed, ready to carve out a name for itself in the rich annals of metal music. They dropped a self-titled demo the same year and in 2005, The Sword released the Freya EP and signed on with New York’s Kemado Records. Age of Winters was the first official release for their new label and included much of their early offerings. Gods of the Earth, another magnificent collection of heaviness arrived last year, containing more of the crunching riffs and literary lyricism that has fans of the genre proclaiming The Sword as an authentic standard-bearer for 21st century metal. Their third record (“a concept album centered around an original science fiction narrative”) is currently in the works with recording expected begin this fall (per their MySpace page).

[The Sword MySpace]
[FingaarBangaar MySpace]
[Woodgrain MySpace]

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