SPIN is in Park City, Utah, traversing snow and cutting queues to bring you reviews of the next big films (and flops) as they make…

We recently sat down with Austin metal masters the Sword to discuss their Black Sabbath- and sci-fi-inspired new album Apocryphon, and the first video to…

Austin, Texas' sci-fi metal masters the Sword stocked their October 22 album Apocryphon with fantastical lyrics and rollercoaster riffs, but it also evinces a new…

Modern stoner-thrash wildmen the Sword are returning on October 22 with their fourth album, Apocryphon released on CD, deluxe CD digipak, picture disc vinyl, "lava…

There's no rest for the heavy. When Austin metalheads the Sword left the stage at Metallica's Orion Music + More Festival in Atlantic City at…

A redheaded sorceress! Spaceships! A damsel in distress! It's a true sci-fi storyline in "Lawless Lands," the new music video from Austin metal act, the…

During this weekend's ACL Music Festival in Austin, TX, artists stopped by the American Express® ZYNC ZONE, to chat with SPIN about their summer festival…

Now in its eighth year, the Austin City Limits festival has worked hard to broaden the city's laid-back, hippies-and-roots-rockers reputation by booking edgier acts like…

These metal loyalists' third monolith is steeped in hokey, dystopian sci-fi, but Warp Riders' interplanetary narrative possesses a charming conviction. It's also somewhat at odds…

"How old are you?" Metallica leader James Hetfield quizzed a boy in the front row during a break in the chaos of Saturday night's show…

If the opening night of Metallica's world tour in Glendale, AZ, Tuesday was any indication, rock's not dead. Check its pulse, and you'll hear the…

Who? Los Angeles-based hard rockers Metallica, plus a bevy of opening acts, including SPIN.com faves/Southern headbangers the Sword.

Like a robotic, muscle-laden extra from the action flick Universal Soldier, Trivett Wingo, drummer of Austin, TX's the Sword, led the chattering, speed metal of…