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MagnetJan 4, 2013Master producer J. Robbins deserves some credit for the band's audibly broadened horizons. [No. 94, p.60]
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Dec 14, 2012Apocryphon stomps with familiar, even comforting, satisfaction.
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Kerrang!Dec 10, 2012The fact that the real Black Sabbath are currently in the studio makes this fell more like a curtain-raiser than the real event. [10 Nov 2012, p.55]
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Nov 20, 2012They're relatively simple things to be sure, but they've been crafted with love and authority before being chiselled in stone so that they may yet last certain discerning metallers a lifetime.
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Alternative PressNov 2, 2012While Apocryphon might be the band's push toward the future, let it also exist as a funeral dirge for the band's more vibrant and rule-breaking past. [Nov 2012, p.94]
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Nov 2, 2012The bottom line here is that for all of their tweaks and changes, The Sword are still a band all about massive riffs and epic lyrics, and while other bands might be more structurally complex or aggressive, few can offer the instant cosmic journey that dropping the needle on Apocryphon can.
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Nov 2, 2012It's heavy metal distilled to its purest form.
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Nov 1, 2012The vocal hooks and song-writing on Apocryphon is better than ever.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 9 out of 11
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Mixed: 0 out of 11
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Negative: 2 out of 11
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Dec 12, 2012
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Dec 9, 2012I am wondering have Ozzy and Tony Iommi been listening to The Sword lately? I