The Sword aren’t any extra! The Texas-based stoner rock and steel outfit have introduced their break up in an announcement from singer and rhythm guitarist John D. Cronise.
The band launched six studio albums over the course of their profession, with the latest being 2018’s Used Future. Additionally they issued the Greetings From…. dwell album in 2017, and have taken half in a number of compilations, EPs and break up releases. They loved their best chart success when 2012’s Apocryphon peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.
Cronise reveals in his assertion that he felt that the whole lot he needed to say and do with the band creatively “has been mentioned and accomplished,” so he felt the time was proper to maneuver on. His full assertion will be learn beneath:
Whats up associates,
I discover it my responsibility to tell you that, after a lot contemplation, I’ve reached the troublesome conclusion that it’s time to convey The Sword’s lengthy and storied profession to an in depth. Once I began the band again in 2004, I might’ve solely hoped for the successes we’ve loved, and I contemplate myself extraordinarily fortunate to have been capable of do it for a residing for nearly twenty years. In that point the whole lot I ever needed to say and do with The Sword creatively has been mentioned and accomplished, and so the time has come for me to maneuver on to different endeavors.
Because of everybody who’s ever come to a present, purchased our albums and merch, and supported us over time. Because of everybody who’s teched, tour managed, accomplished sound, or offered merch for us. Because of all of the bands who’ve taken us on tour and to all of the bands we’ve taken on tour.
Because of the promotors and venues who booked us and allow us to play. Because of the producers and recording engineers who labored on our albums and to the labels that launched them. Because of Josh our reserving agent and Mark our enterprise supervisor, whom we’re glad to rely as associates. And most of all due to my bandmates, Kyle, Bryan, Jimmy, and Trivett, for having religion in me and permitting me to appreciate my imaginative and prescient. You dudes are true legends.
It has been a helluva journey. Now it’s time for the subsequent chapter…
— John D. Cronise
As for that subsequent chapter, Cronise has but to disclose his subsequent transfer musically. So keep tuned.
Revisit a number of the band’s materials beneath.
The Sword, “Freya”
The Sword, “Excessive Nation”
The Sword, “Used Future”
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