{"id":80139,"date":"2020-04-07T18:05:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=80139"},"modified":"2020-04-07T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:05:30","slug":"the-sword-2-compilations-to-be-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=80139","title":{"rendered":"THE SWORD &#8211; 2 Compilations To Be Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/theswordband1-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80141\" width=\"428\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/theswordband1-4.jpg 645w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/theswordband1-4-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/theswordband1-4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>THE SWORD<\/strong> are preparing two extensive career-spanning compilations for a June 5th release on <strong>Craft Recordings<\/strong>. \u201c<strong>Conquest Of Kingdoms<\/strong>\u201d will compile 30 tracks as a three-vinyl set which will feature covers, b-sides, live recordings and more. 16 songs featured on it are previously unreleased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Meanwhile, \u201c<strong>Chronology 2006-2018<\/strong>\u201d will arrive on three-discs. Along with much of the content from the aforementioned rarities set, it will also sport some of the band\u2019s biggest songs and fan favorites. Of the included 52 tracks, 12 are previously unreleased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">New liner notes contributions penned by <strong>Metallica<\/strong> drummer <strong>Lars Ulrich<\/strong> (who previously invited <strong>The Sword<\/strong> to tour with <strong>Metallica<\/strong>), <strong>Lamb Of God<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Mark Morton<\/strong> and <strong>Clutch<\/strong> frontman <strong>Neil Fallon<\/strong> will also appear on this set. Excerpts from the latter can be found below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Lars Ulrich<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201c<strong>The Sword<\/strong> blew my mind. The best music always sounds like it threads through, and is part of, some sort of lineage, some sort of continuity, some sort of history, but always with its own additional X factor\u2026 For me, they were one of the few with that aforementioned additional X factor, so we should absolutely celebrate their inspirational music.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SWORD are preparing two extensive career-spanning compilations for a June 5th release on Craft&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80143,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80139\/revisions\/80143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}