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The Sword at First Avenue
Oct 5, 2025 Sunday
The Sword
with Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol and Pink Fuzz
at First Avenue
first-avenue.com
Austin’s The Sword returns to Minneapolis, playing First Avenue on October 5, 2025.
We saw the Sword in Mar 2014, and said, “Austin, TX bred The Sword headlined the evening with a 75 min. set of no-frills, so-called stoner doom metal… that inexplicably began with the intro music of Jay-Z’s ’99 Problems’. The four-piece is out in support of its fourth and latest effort, Apocryphon (Razor and Tie), with song titles not out of place in a Tolkien novel or as an episode name on Game of Thrones. While the newer songs embrace more of a classic hard rock sound (think early Sabbath), they fit seamlessly within the context of the older, darker material.”
Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol to open. The Austin trio, released Big Dumb Riffs in May 2024.
Pink Fuzz is also on the bill.
Tour Dates
- 08/25 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
- 08/27 San Francisco, CA – Great American Music Hall
- 08/28 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
- 08/29 San Diego, CA – Belly Up Tavern
- 08/30 Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether
- 09/27 Oklahoma, OK – Beer City Music Hall
- 09/28 St Louis, MO – Delmar Hall
- 09/29 Lawrence, KS – The Granada Theater
- 10/01 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
- 10/03 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave II
- 10/05 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
- 10/06 Chicago, IL – House of Blues
- 10/07 Grand Rapids, MI – Elevation
- 10/08 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
- 10/09 Detroit, MI – St. Andrews Hall
- 10/11 Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe
- 10/13 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
- 10/14 New York City, NY – Bowery Ballroom
- 10/15 Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
- 10/17 Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
- 10/18 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr Small’s
- 10/19 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
- 10/22 Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theater
- 10/23 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
- 10/24 Orlando, FL – The Beacham
- 10/26 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl