![]() ![]() User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL. Magic Sword: Official Website / Facebook / Twitter / Twitch. You can read our review of Magic Sword’s latest album here. Many thanks for Keeper, Seer and Weaver for allowing us into the Temple of all Beginning’s to speak to them. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License additional terms may apply. We can say that we will be diving into the origins of the Keeper, Seer, and Weaver. "In the Face of Evil" also appears in the official trailer for the movie Thor: Ragnarok. Two of Magic Sword's songs are featured in the video game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. ![]() Continuing their tour in January 2018 accompanied by artists such as Mr Kitty, Nite and Ceegix. In September 2016, Magic Sword embarked on their first national headlining tour. In 2016, the trio released their first EP on Size Records titled Legend. ![]() Along with the album, the trio released a comic book with the same name. That same year, they released their debut full-length album titled Magic Sword Vol. The band consists of The Keeper (red, keyboard, audio-visual), The Seer (blue, guitar), and The Weaver (yellow, drums). ![]() They are known for wearing cloaks and masks during their performances, so as not to reveal their faces or bodies. This comes in a limited “empress” blue vinyl with its comic book, so is an object of great beauty as well.Magic Sword are an American electronic trio from Boise, Idaho. The album works as a standalone record, so you don’t really have to get the first two to immerse yourself in the whole Magic Sword concept, but I strongly urge that you do as they are fantastic releases. Magic Sword are certainly one of the best new wave of synthwave bands out there, but I am also a sucker for high-concept records as well, so their stuff is just perfect for me. “Endless” finishes the album with some sedate cello-sounding synths and a slight orchestral build, and again this sounds like something from a soundtrack then the drums come in and we are taken away on our spaceship over alien landscapes as we head towards the sunset, the music swelling all around us. “Hope” has slow-build synth pads over a pulsing bass rhythm, its lead line is simple but moving as it touches on a slightly melancholic mood as you think on the past and look towards a different future. It’s a wonderful closing piece for the second side, with a tune that gets you humming along and wanting to flip the record over. With “Prophecy”, Magic Sword are back to some uplifting disco music with a feelgood walking bassline that sounds like its come off a Jean-Pierre Massiera record. The sequencer slowly builds and bubbles away, drums clatter occasionally and it’s a brooding interlude of a piece that sounds menacing. Deep notes herald in “Shores Of Oblivion”, a piece that hints a Kraftwerk’s “Kometenmelodie” at times thanks to its use of space and drones. Here, the melody reminds me of bands like Milkways from the late seventies and even a little bit of The Droids. “Empress” is a rolling tune with the arpeggiator giving it a lolloping rhythm before the steady drum beat kicks and we head straight into the French space disco category. “Aftermath” opens with a quiet Vangelis-style reflection mode as bass rhythms pulse and cymbals chime and big Moog Taurus pedal-sounding notes punctuate its meditative feel. “Invincible” has a rolling sequencer very much in the mode of Tangerine Dream, its keyboard line sweeps below as it then suddenly takes off to a furious back beat and the bass blasts out. When the lead guitar steps in its quite breathtaking, as its notes rise above the chord sequence as if stretching out to the universe. The drums keep a steady rolling beat as the guitar picks up the sound and suddenly you are immersed in Magic Sword’s world the melody is understated, talking of future worlds or maybe ancient cities before the rise of Atlantis. Side one begins with “Depths Of Power”, which starts with a melancholy synth sound not unlike what Brian Eno used on David Bowie’s Low album. ![]()
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