The Sword--WARP RIDERS

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This album came out today.  I have listened to it about five times.  I have been a listener since The Sword’s first album Age of Winters.  This is their third, and they’re setting a pattern for themselves with each album being better than the last.

Warp Riders contains the usual epic bullshit the boys write about, with the usual bottom-heavy Sabbath riffing, only this time a smidgen of Southern rock seems to have creeped into the mix, being especially prevalent on the second track, “Tres Brujas.”

In my opinion, these guys are the most excing metal band operating today.  They know what they like, and nobody’s doing this sort of thing better right now.  As a bonus, the production values have ramped up with this offering, with several songs even having discernible vocals.

If you like your metal epic, dumb and with polyhedral dice, you really owe it to yourself to buy this album.