List of songs recorded by The Sword

The current lineup of The Sword comprises Kyle Shutt (guitar), Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III (drums), John "J. D." Cronise (vocals and guitar), and Bryan Richie (bass).

The Sword is an American heavy metal band formed in Austin, Texas in 2003. The band released its debut album Age of Winters in 2006; the songs on the album were largely written by frontman J. D. Cronise before the band's formation, although the musical compositions were credited to the band as a whole.^[1] In 2007 the band contributed the track "Sea of Spears" to a split extended play (EP) with Swedish band Witchcraft, which was credited to Cronise and guitarist Kyle Shutt, as well as a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song".^[2] In 2008 the band released its second album Gods of the Earth, which was again credited to Cronise (lyrics) and the band as a whole (music),^[3] as well as the single "Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians" which featured the previously unreleased track "Codex Corvidae" as the B-side.^[4]

After contributing a cover version of Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat" to a split single with Year Long Disaster in March,^[5] The Sword released its third studio album Warp Riders in August 2010, the music for which was credited to Cronise and Shutt.^[6] Second single "(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire" featured another previously unreleased track as a B-side, "Farstar".^[7] The band signed with Razor & Tie in 2012, and released the non-album single "Hammer of Heaven" in May that year, a song written by Cronise during the sessions for Age of Winters.^[8] The band's fourth album Apocryphon, the first to feature drummer Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III, followed in October and returned to crediting the music to the whole band.^[9]

Songs

Frontman J. D. Cronise has written all of the band's lyrics on each of its four albums, as well as producing the first two releases.

Guitarist Kyle Shutt was credited with co-composing the music on the 2010 album Warp Riders.

Bassist Bryan Richie also recorded and engineered the band's first two albums.

A recording of "Immigrant Song" by Led Zeppelin, written by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, was the first cover version released by The Sword, in 2007.

In 2010, the band released a cover of Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat", written by bassist Phil Lynott and guitarist John Sykes, as a single.

The band have also released cover versions of two ZZ Top songs as album bonus tracks, both of which were written by band members Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard.

Key

	Indicates song released as a single
	Indicates song released as a music video

Song	Writer(s)	Release	Year	Ref.
"(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"Acheron/Unearthing the Orb"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"Apocryphon"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"Arcane Montane"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"Arrows in the Dark"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"Astraea's Dream"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"Barael's Blade"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]
"Celestial Crown"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]
"Cheap Sunglasses"	Billy Gibbons Dusty Hill Frank Beard	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"Cloak of Feathers"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"Codex Corvidae"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	"Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians"	2008	[4]
"Cold Sweat"	Phil Lynott John Sykes	"Cold Sweat/Maiden, Mother & Crone"	2010	[5]
"Daughter of Dawn"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"Dying Earth"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"Ebethron"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]
"Execrator"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"Eyes of the Stormwitch"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"Farstar"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	"(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire"	2010	[7]
"Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"Freya"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]
"Hammer of Heaven"	J. D. Cronise	Non-album single	2012	[8]
"Hawks & Serpents"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"He's Waiting"	Gerry Roslie	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"How Heavy This Axe"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"Immigrant Song"	Jimmy Page Robert Plant	The Sword/Witchcraft	2007	[2]
"Iron Swan"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]
"Lament for the Aurochs"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]
"Lawless Lands"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"Lords"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"Maiden, Mother & Crone"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"March of the Lor"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]
"Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings"	Billy Gibbons Dusty Hill Frank Beard	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"Night City"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"Sea of Spears"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	The Sword/Witchcraft	2007	[2]
"Seven Sisters"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"The Black River"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"The Chronomancer I: Hubris"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"The Chronomancer II: Nemesis"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"The Hidden Masters"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"The Horned Goddess"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]
"The Sundering"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"The Veil of Isis"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Jimmy Vela	Apocryphon	2012	[9]
"The Warp Riders"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"The White Sea"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"To Take the Black"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"Tres Brujas"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt	Warp Riders	2010	[6]
"Under the Boughs"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Gods of the Earth	2008	[3]
"Winter's Wolves"	J. D. Cronise Kyle Shutt Bryan Richie Trivett Wingo	Age of Winters	2006	[1]

References

External links

• List of The Sword songs at AllMusic
• The Sword official website