Austin, Texas' THE SWORD has issued the following update:

"THE SWORD will have a song on the soundtrack of the new film 'Jennifer's Body', which comes out September 18th. As far as we can tell, the movie is about a sexy high school succubus who kills her classmates.

"In case you didn't know, we have music in a couple of other films as well. Acclaimed Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund [who has done videos for METALLICA, SATYRICON, MADONNA, THE PRODIGY and RAMMSTEIN], put one of our songs in his latest film, 'Horsemen', starring Dennis Quaid. Also, the award-winning 'Worst Movie of 2007', 'I Know Who Killed Me', features Lindsay Lohan doing a striptease to 'Freya'. It's pretty rad."

THE SWORD is finishing up the songwriting process for its third album and is set to begin demoing the new material soon. According to the band, "Recording will follow in the fall with a release as soon as the suits can get it together. The record will be a concept album centered around an original science fiction narrative."

Video footage of METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich performing the song "Freya" with THE SWORD on May 17, 2009 at Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany can be viewed below.

RollingStone.com last year asked Lars Ulrich to name his favorite album of 2008. "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," he responded. "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."

THE SWORD's latest album, "Gods of the Earth", was released on April 1, 2008 via Kemado Records. The follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed debut "Age of Winters" was recorded at Folkvang Studios in Austin, TX, and is said to be "more ambitious, more accomplished and simply bigger."

On November 25, Austin, THE SWORD released a limited-edition CD set that included both "Age Of Winters" and "Gods Of The Earth" albums. This special package was made available at all of the band's live shows (both headlining and METALLICA support dates) as well as on Amazon at this location.