As the metal gods ascended from the heavens earlier this week with an announcements of Neurosis’ return to NYC, The Sword have completed work on Gods of Earth, their follow-up to 2006’s retro-metal album, Age of Winters. The album is set for a release on Kemado records on April 1st and promises to be simply bigger and more ambitious. I’m not sure how much bigger these guys can get without my walls caving in, but I shall gladly consume the noise. The track listing is as follows:

 1 The Sundering           
2 How Heavy This Axe
3 Lords           
4 Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians    
5 To Take the Black
6 Maiden, Mother & Crone
7 Under the Boughs
8 The Black River
9 The White Sea