The Sword and the Stoned
by Chris Parker
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may not have the biggest speaker cabinets in stoner metal, but what comes out is pretty massive. Their sludgy loose-limbed boogie suggests early Black Sabbath interspersed with passages of explosive thrash-metal thunder, while frontman J.D. Cronise wails histrionically in the epic vein of British power metal. He’s got the voice for tracks like “Freya,” “Fire Lances of the Hyperzephyrians” and “The Frost Giant’s Daughter,” whose lyrics lurk close to the darkest depths of Mordor. The Austin quartet got started in ’03 and made their debut in ’06 with Age of Winters; their latest, Gods of Earth, pummels with more purpose, taming the breakdowns and tightening the tank treads on the blitzkrieg riffage. And yet somehow it’s less satisfying—like the stoned discovery there are no Doritos in the house
Mon., Nov. 10, 9 p.m., 2008
Mon., Nov. 10, 9 p.m., 2008
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