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The Brick

The Brick (later renamed Mill City Nights) was a 1,200-capacity concert and event venue located at 111 5th St N, Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 19, 2012, as The Brick, operated by AEG Live/AEG. Four months after opening, the venue rebranded as Mill City Nights following early patron complaints regarding poor sightlines and crowd congestion

The Sword at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (9 March 2014)

The Sword w/ Big Business and O’ Brother at Mill City Nights, Minneapolis (9 March 2014) concert review

JohnC@weheartmusic.com March 15, 2014

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.

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