The Sword broke up in 2022 and reunited for then-one-off present on the Levitation Pageant on November 3, 2024. The Sword continued down the trail of reuniting with a canopy of “Locomotive Breath” by Jethro Tull for Magnetic Eye’s Aqualung Redux album, after which a New 12 months’s Eve present in Austin, Texas.
Now The Sword has introduced they’re completely reuniting beginning with two exhibits for this April dubbed “The Return.” Each exhibits might be opened by Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol and Pink Fuzz. Tickets are available here.
4/10 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
4/11 San Antonio, TX Paper Tiger
On the band’s reunion, The Sword vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise instructed Revolver there are extra dates to return: “Nicely, proper now we’ve got a pair Texas exhibits. We have simply performed Baton Rouge and Houston and Austin, and we’ll do Dallas and San Antonio [in April]. After which we received a number of extra stuff developing within the summertime.”
Guitarist Kyle Shutt added: “I can not inform you what it means to see everybody’s constructive reception. It feels so good to see individuals on the market nearly extra enthusiastic concerning the band than ever – it is one thing we’ll by no means take without any consideration.”
And naturally with the reunion comes the query of if The Sword will do a follow-up to their 2018 report Used Future. The quick reply might be, the lengthy reply is that they’re engaged on it slowly.
“Now we have a pair demos laying round, however we’ve got but to essentially get collectively and focus on it,” mentioned Cronise. “I have been in such a transitional state with shifting. I used to be form of semi-displaced by Hurricane Helene. I lived in Black Mountain, [North Carolina], and I could not actually return to my home after that. I used to be truly not on the town when the hurricane occurred [in September 2024], fortunately. However I needed to transfer out proper after that. So I have been in a holding sample right here for the final couple months, and I am lastly shifting to Austin within the subsequent couple days. Then we’ll be capable of get into the nitty gritty of engaged on new materials.”
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