The Sword - Apocryphon

Apocryphon is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band The Sword, originally released in October 2012 via Razor & Tie.

Over the course of three mind altering, critically praised albums, The Sword have proved to be one of rock’s most intriguing bands. Part Sabbath, part Melvins, part Slayer, the band has already created a body of enormous riffage that has crushed ear drums the world over.

On their new album Apocryphon, the band has taken the best elements from each of their previous albums and made an album that is the most fluid and heavy of the bands career.

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.

The album achieved considerable commercial success, reaching #17 on the US Billboard 200 and #2 on the Billboard Hard Rock albums charts.

This album is a 10^th Anniversary limited edition on 180 gram yellow cosmic swirl coloured vinyl housed in a gatefold sleeve with silver foil stamping and an inner sleeve, pressed in the US via Razor & Tie and Craft Recordings.