Category: BY FIRE & SWORD

BY FIRE & SWORD from Boise, Idaho, USA, present the debut full-length album “Glory“, and if the band’s name or album title makes you think of epic metal and endless battles, you’re wrong. BY FIRE & SWORD aren’t about the kinds of glory attained by disdaining fortune and splitting skulls. Imagine instead Stryper’s bigger, meaner brother, who’d fallen to drinking and drugging and left the faith only to suffer frightful visions and start an apocalypse cult. And now he wants you to join with him. In Jesus. Forevermore. Welcome to the other kind of ‘Glory’.
Yes this is a Christian metal band, but on “Glory” they’re so disturbingly mocking of Christianity.
Musically, BY FIRE & SWORD are quite unique, some kind of a mix between Wytch Hazel, Blue Öyster Cult and Iron Maiden. And they add a dash of weird catchiness and proto metal.
Yes folks, “Glory” is way more interesting and brave than the vast majority of trad metal releases this year…