The Sword discography | |
---|---|
Studio albums | 6 |
EPs | 2 |
Live albums | 1 |
Compilation albums | 3 |
Singles | 13 |
Music videos | 11 |
Split releases | 3 |
The discography of The Sword, an American heavy metal band, consists of six studio albums, one live album, three compilation albums, one extended play (EP), three split releases, 13 singles and ten music videos. Originally formed in Austin, Texas in 2003 by vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise with guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie and drummer Trivett Wingo, the band signed with Kemado Records in 2005 and released debut album Age of Winters the following year. [1] "Freya" was released as a single in 2007, [2] followed by a split EP with Swedish band Witchcraft featuring new track "Sea of Spears" and a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song". [1]
In 2008 the band released Gods of the Earth , which reached number 102 on the US Billboard 200. [3] "Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians" was released as its sole single. [4] In March 2010, the band released a split single with Year Long Disaster, which was followed in August by Warp Riders . [1] The album was supported by the release of two singles – "Tres Brujas" and "(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire" – as well as a trilogy of music videos. [5] Warp Riders peaked at number 42 on the Billboard 200, [3] as well as reaching the top ten of the Hard Rock Albums, Independent Albums and Tastemaker Albums charts. [6] [7] [8]
With new drummer Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III and new label Razor & Tie, [9] [10] the Sword returned with its fourth studio album Apocryphon in October 2012. [1] It was the band's first to reach the US top 20, peaking at number 17, [3] as well as the first to reach the top ten of the Top Rock Albums chart at a peak position of number 4. [11] The band's fifth album High Country was released in August 2015, charting in the US at number 30, [3] with the acoustic companion album Low Country released the following year reaching the top ten of the US Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart. [6] The Sword's first live album Greetings From... was released in May 2017. [1]
In March 2018, the band released its sixth studio album Used Future . [12] The album debuted at number 104 on the Billboard 200, the lowest position in the band's career since Age of Winters had failed to chart. [3] It also reached number 6 on the Hard Rock Albums chart and number 16 on the Top Rock Albums chart. [6] [11] After a two-year hiatus, the Sword is set to return in 2020 with two compilations: Conquest of Kingdoms and Chronology: 2006–2018 . [13] [14]
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
US [3] | US Hard [6] | US Indie [7] | US Rock [11] | US Taste [8] | AUS [15] | GER [16] | UK [17] | UK Indie [18] | UK Rock [19] | ||
Age of Winters | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Gods of the Earth |
| 102 | 14 | 11 | — | 5 | — | — | — | 12 | 30 |
Warp Riders |
| 42 | 5 | 8 | 15 | 6 | — | — | — | 26 | 20 |
Apocryphon |
| 17 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | — | — | — | 47 | 21 |
High Country |
| 30 | 4 | — | 7 | 5 | 74 | 91 | 128 | 13 | 11 |
Used Future |
| 104 | 6 | — | 16 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 25 |
"—" denotes a release that did not register on that chart. |
Title | Album details | Peaks | |
---|---|---|---|
US Hard Sales [20] | US Rock Sales [21] | ||
Greetings From... |
| 10 | 43 |
Title | Album details | Peak positions | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
US Curr. [22] | US Hard [6] | US Rock [11] | US Taste [8] | ||
Low Country |
| 97 | 10 | 32 | 24 |
Conquest of Kingdoms |
| — | — | — | — |
Chronology: 2006–2018 |
| — | — | — | — |
Title | Album details |
---|---|
iTunes Festival: London 2010 |
|
Conquest of Quarantine |
|
Title | Release details |
---|---|
Untitled split with Witchcraft (split with Witchcraft) |
|
"Cold Sweat/Maiden, Mother & Crone" (split with Year Long Disaster) | |
"Tonight We Bleed/Turnt to Dust" (split with The Black Angels) |
|
Title | Year | Album |
---|---|---|
"Freya" | 2007 | Age of Winters |
"Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians" | 2008 | Gods of the Earth |
"Tres Brujas" | 2010 | Warp Riders |
"(The Night the Sky Cried) Tears of Fire" | ||
"Hammer of Heaven" | 2012 | non-album single |
"The Hidden Masters/Arcane Montane" | 2014 | Apocryphon |
"High Country" | 2015 | High Country |
"John the Revelator" | 2016 | non-album single |
"Seriously Mysterious" (acoustic) | Low Country | |
"Maiden, Mother & Crone" (live) | 2017 | Greetings From... |
"Deadly Nightshade" | 2018 | Used Future |
"Twilight Sunrise" | ||
"Freya" (live at Stubb's, 2011) | 2020 | Conquest of Kingdoms |
Title | Year | Director(s) | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
"Winter's Wolves" | 2006 | David Foote | [23] |
"Freya" | Barnaby Roper | [24] | |
"Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians" | 2008 | Michael Colao, Josh Litwhiler | [25] |
"Maiden, Mother & Crone" | Artificial Army | [26] | |
"How Heavy This Axe" | Super!Alright! | [27] | |
"Tres Brujas" | 2010 | Artificial Army | [28] |
"Lawless Lands" | |||
"Night City" | 2011 | ||
"The Veil of Isis" | 2012 | Simon Chan | [29] |
"Cloak of Feathers" | 2013 | Rich Ragsdale | [30] |
"Used Future" | 2018 | Rooster Teeth | [31] |
Otep was an American nu metal band. The band was formed in November 2000 in Los Angeles by frontwoman Otep Shamaya. The band is noted for their style of "art-house nu metal", and their strong political stances. Throughout the course of several lineup changes over the years, Shamaya has remained the only constant member in the band.
American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold has released eight studio albums, one soundtrack album, one live album, two compilation albums, 24 singles, two video albums and 29 music videos. Formed in Huntington Beach, California in 1999, the band originally featured vocalist M. Shadows, guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Matt Wendt and drummer The Rev. Synyster Gates joined as lead guitarist in 2001, just after the group released their debut album Sounding the Seventh Trumpet on Good Life Recordings, which was later reissued on Hopeless Records.
The American heavy metal band Slipknot has released seven studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums, one demo album, one EP, twenty-eight singles, five video albums and thirty-three music videos. Formed in Des Moines, Iowa in 1995, Slipknot originally featured vocalist and percussionist Anders Colsefni, guitarists Donnie Steele and Josh "Gnar" Brainard, bassist Paul Gray, drummer Joey Jordison, and percussionist and backing vocalist Shawn "Clown" Crahan. The original lineup released its first album Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. in 1996, before undergoing a number of lineup changes over the next few years.
The Sword is an American heavy metal band from Austin, Texas. Formed in 2003, the band was composed of vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie and drummer Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III for most of its tenure. Originally signed to Kemado Records, the group released their debut album Age of Winters in 2006, the material for which had been largely written by Cronise prior to the band's formation. Gods of the Earth was released two years later, giving the group its first entry on the US Billboard 200 chart when it reached number 102.
An Ocean Between Us is the fourth studio album by American metalcore band As I Lay Dying, released on August 21, 2007, by Metal Blade Records. It debuted at No. 8 on the Billboard 200, with sales close to 39,500. The album includes the singles "Nothing Left", "The Sound of Truth", "Within Destruction", "I Never Wanted" and "An Ocean Between Us", with music videos produced for all five. "Nothing Left" appears on the radio soundtrack of the 2008 video game Saints Row 2.
The discography of Trivium, an American heavy metal band, consists of ten studio albums, three extended play, two demo albums, 42 singles and 34 music videos. Formed in Orlando, Florida in 1999, the group's first recording lineup included vocalist and guitarist Matt Heafy, bassist Brent Young and drummer Travis Smith, who together released Ember to Inferno on Lifeforce Records in 2003. After the addition of guitarist Corey Beaulieu and new bassist Paolo Gregoletto in place of Young, the band signed with Roadrunner Records and released Ascendancy in 2005, which reached number 151 on the US Billboard 200. It also reached number 79 on the UK Albums Chart and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). The Crusade followed in 2006, peaking at number 25 on the Billboard 200 and number 7 on the UK Albums Chart. The album's second single "Anthem " reached number 40 on the UK Singles Chart and topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart, while its third single "The Rising" was the band's first to register on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, reaching number 32.
Whitechapel is an American deathcore band from Knoxville, Tennessee. The band is named after the Whitechapel district in East London, England, where Jack the Ripper committed a series of murders. The group comprises vocalist Phil Bozeman, guitarists Ben Savage, Alex Wade, and Zach Householder, bassist Gabe Crisp and drummer Brandon Zackey. Their core lineup, with the exception of the drummer, has remained consistent since Householder replaced original guitarist Brandon Cagle in 2007. Founded in 2006 by Bozeman and Savage, the band has released eight studio albums and fourteen music videos, and it's currently signed to Metal Blade Records. Whitechapel's 2010 album A New Era of Corruption, sold around 10,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release and debuted at position No. 43 on the Billboard 200 chart. The band's self-titled fourth album was released in 2012 and debuted at No. 47 on the Billboard 200, selling roughly 9,200 copies in its first week. In 2014 the band released their fifth full-length album, Our Endless War to generally positive reviews. The album sold roughly 16,000 copies in its first week and debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. They released their sixth full-length album Mark of the Blade in 2016 to greater critical acclaim, selling roughly 8,000 copies in the first week of its release. In 2019, Whitechapel released their seventh album, The Valley, which debuted at No. 143 on the Billboard 200 also to critical acclaim. Their newest album, Kin, was released on October 29, 2021.
The discography of Australian hard rock band Wolfmother consists of six studio albums, four extended play (EPs), 18 singles, 14 music videos and one video album. The band have also contributed to two soundtracks and one tribute album. Originally from Sydney, Wolfmother were formed in 2004 by vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross, and drummer Myles Heskett. After signing with Modular Recordings and releasing their self-titled debut EP in 2004, the band's debut full-length studio album, also titled Wolfmother, was released in Australia in October 2005. It reached number 3 on the Australian Albums Chart. The album was released internationally the following year, reaching number 25 in the UK, number 22 in the US, and selling over 1.6 million copies worldwide by 2009.
Kittie is a Canadian heavy metal band formed in 1996 by guitarist and vocalist Morgan Lander, guitarist Fallon Bowman and drummer Mercedes Lander. The band has released seven studio albums, four extended plays, one compilation album, one demo album, four video albums, seventeen singles and eighteen music videos. Morgan and Mercedes are the only members to appear on all of Kittie's albums; their current lineup features guitarist Tara McLeod, who joined in 2005, and bassist Ivy Vujic, who played with the band from 2007 to 2012 before rejoining in 2022. As of 2018, they have sold over two million albums worldwide. The band has achieved most of its commercial successes in the United States compared to its home country; as of 2009, they have sold 60,000 albums in Canada.
The discography of Alter Bridge, an American rock band, includes seven studio albums, four live albums, one box set, one extended play (EP), 26 singles, two video albums and 14 music videos. Formed in Orlando, Florida, in 2004, Alter Bridge consists of Myles Kennedy and former Creed members Mark Tremonti, Brian Marshall and Scott Phillips. The band released its debut album One Day Remains in 2004, which reached number 5 on the US Billboard 200 and was certified gold by the RIAA. Two of the three singles from the album – "Open Your Eyes" and "Find the Real" – reached the top ten of the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.
Warp Riders is the third studio album by American heavy metal band the Sword. Recorded at Wire Recording in Austin, Texas with producer Matt Bayles, it was released by Kemado Records in August 2010. Warp Riders was written and recorded as a concept album centered on an original science fiction narrative written by vocalist and guitarist J. D. Cronise, and marks a conscious change in style from doom metal to a more hard rock-influenced sound.
The discography of Black Country Communion, an English-American hard rock band, consists of five studio albums, one live album, four singles, one video album and nine music videos. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009, Black Country Communion is a supergroup composed of bassist and vocalist Glenn Hughes, guitarist and vocalist Joe Bonamassa, drummer Jason Bonham and keyboardist Derek Sherinian. Working with producer Kevin Shirley, the band released its self-titled debut album through J&R Adventures and Mascot Records in September 2010. The album reached number 54 on the Billboard 200, number 13 on the UK Albums Chart, the top 20 of the US Billboard Hard Rock Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, and topped the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart.
Apocryphon is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band The Sword. Recorded at Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore, Maryland with producer J. Robbins, it was released by New York label Razor & Tie in October 2012. Apocryphon is the band's first album without original member Trivett Wingo, and the first to feature his replacement Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III, who took over from interim touring drummer Kevin Fender in October 2011; it is also the first of the band's albums to be released by Razor & Tie, with whom the group signed in early 2012 after seven years with Kemado Records.
John D. Cronise, also credited as J.D. Cronise, is an American heavy metal musician and record producer. Originally from Roanoke, Virginia, he is best known as the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter and former producer for Austin, Texas-based band the Sword, which he co-founded in 2003. Prior to the formation of The Sword, he also performed in the bands Those Peabodys and Ultimate Dragons, the latter of which also featured original the Sword drummer Trivett Wingo.
High Country is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band the Sword. Recorded at studios in Austin, Texas and Asheville, North Carolina with producer Adrian Quesada, it was released on August 21, 2015 by Razor & Tie. The album was mixed by J. Robbins, who had previously produced The Sword's 2012 fourth studio album Apocryphon. "High Country" was released as a single on July 20, 2015.
I Prevail is an American rock band formed in Southfield, Michigan, in 2013. They released their debut EP Heart vs. Mind (2014) and rose to popularity from releasing a metal cover of Taylor Swift's "Blank Space" as a single, which eventually was certified platinum in the US. The band has since released three studio albums: Lifelines (2016), Trauma (2019), and True Power (2022). The band found success with their original material as well, with the singles "Breaking Down" and "Hurricane" performing well on rock radio, the single "Bow Down" being nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 2019, and Trauma being nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album the same year.
That's the Spirit is the fifth studio album by British rock band Bring Me the Horizon. The album was released on 11 September 2015, and marks a departure from the group's metalcore roots, in favour of a less aggressive alternative rock and metal style.
Low Country is a compilation album by American hard rock band The Sword. Recorded at The Bend in Austin, Texas and The Berry in Taylor, Texas, it was produced by the band's bassist Bryan Richie and released on September 23, 2016 by Razor & Tie. The album features stripped-down acoustic recordings of ten of the 15 songs from the band's 2015 fifth studio album High Country, which were recorded shortly before the album's release, between June and August 2015.
This is the discography of American rock band Beartooth. They have released five studio albums, three extended plays, twenty-four singles and twenty-two music videos. Their debut studio album, Disgusting, was released on June 10, 2014. The album contains the single, "In Between", which was certified platinum by the RIAA. Their second studio album, Aggressive, was released on June 3, 2016. They released their third studio album, Disease, on September 28, 2018. Their fourth studio album, Below, on June 25, 2021. On October 13, 2023, they released their fifth studio album, The Surface.