Title: The Sword - Gods Of The Earth
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2008, Metal, Stoner Metal, Austin, Texas
Matrix #: KEM072
Condition: EX, sounds great, looks great

Cultural Facts:

1. Studio Lore: This was the last Sword record with original drummer Trivett Wingo before lineup changes started reshaping the band’s chemistry.

2. Scene Ecology: They rose out of Austin’s heavy underground, where doom, psych, and metal scenes overlapped in small clubs and word-of-mouth circuits.

3. Media Narrative: Early press kept comparing them to Sabbath so aggressively that the band spent years pushing back against being treated like revivalists.

3/14/2026 CC