See Metallica's Lars Ulrich Join the Sword for "Freya" in 2009 | Revolver

See Metallica's Lars Ulrich Join the Sword for "Freya" in 2009

Ulrich: "The Sword sound like the definitive New Wave of British Heavy Metal"

Metallica's Lars Ulrich was one of the Sword's biggest cheerleaders, singing their praises in interviews, taking them out on tour and even jamming with them onstage. One such live collab took place in Paris, France, where Metallica were headlining the Accorhotels Arena with Machine Head and the Sword opening the show. Ulrich sat in on the song "Freya" off the Austin group's 2006 debut, Age of Winters, and gave it his all, clearly fanboying out from behind the drum kit. Watch above.

"We're fortunate to have this heavy-metal band from Austin out playing with us, and we've got them playing shows on our days off so that we can go see them," Ulrich enthused of the Sword in 2008 to Rolling Stone. "I'm a product of British metal — Iron Maiden, Saxon, Angel Witch — and the Sword sound like the definitive New Wave of British Heavy Metal, which is interesting coming from four guys from Texas. The arrangements, the intros and outros, the middle eights and that type of stuff, it reminds me of Deep Purple, Black Sabbath or Judas Priest. They're not really a young Metallica, but that's because they're cooler than we were."