The Sword unveil album art

American heavy metal band The Sword have unveiled the artwork for their upcoming fourth album, Apocryphon.

Being huge fans of comic book art, the band was thrilled to have award winning author, illustrator, and designer J.H. Williams III (DC Comics Batwoman, Batman, Promethea) design the entire album package. Check it out here.

The band recorded the new album with producer J. Robbins (Coliseum, Clutch, Against Me!) at his Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore, Maryland.

As well as the album being the band's first release for Razor & Tie, it will also be the band's first recorded material to feature drummer Santiago "Jimmy" Vela III.

Apocryphon is out on October 22 through Razor & Tie Records.

We really dug their last record, Warp Riders. Fingers crossed the new album rocks just as hard.