Slash: 'By The Sword' Video Premiere

Ultimate-Guitar.com is proud to premiere a brand new Slash video for "By The Sword." The song comes from the legendary guitarist's latest album "Slash," and features Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother on vocals.

The video was shot April 3 and April 4 in the Los Angeles area. As previously reported, anyone could participate in the filming process as a part of the concert crowd. Several photos from the photoshoot are available at this location.

A live video of Slash and Andrew Stockdale performing "By The Sword" at The Roxy in L.A. on April 10th can be seen at Slash Online. At the show, Slash performed new songs from his new solo album together with GN'R classics such as "Civil War" and "Paradise City".

"Slash," the album, scored the highest new entry on The Billboard 200 chart, with first-week U.S. sales of around 60,000 copies.

The LP was released in North America on April 6 via EMI Label Services. The album features an all-star roster of guest musicians, including Ian Astbury, Chris Cornell, Rocco DeLuca, Fergie, Dave Grohl, Myles Kennedy, Kid Rock, Lemmy Kilmister, Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Duff McKagan, M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold, Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop, and Andrew Stockdale of Wolfmother.

Watch the official "By The Sword" video below!

In other news, Slash and Ultimate Guitar are announcing a unique fan Q&A session, giving UG users a chance to ask Slash anything they want. The questions will be answered by the guitarist on a monthly basis in his blog.

"I've been getting some very inquisitive comments and tweets from fans," Slash said in the announcement. "I’m going to address some of your questions on my official blog here on Ultimate-Guitar. So if you have something to say, please post it in this thread and hopefully I can answer you here. Just keep it clean. Iiii|; )"

Start submitting your questions right away!

Comments

[Galfadez]

andrew stockdale is a legend

[jimmysaint]

love the song, love the video

[--ESTRANGED--]

great song, great video, great record all together really!

[mulefish]

really love what slash is doing right now!!

[Astaldo]

slash you are 100% my man!

[MightyAl]

Reminds me a bit of the Slither video. Not that that's a bad thing, cos I liked that, too.

[stephen_rettie]

remind anyone else of borderlands?

[druMMaBoY69]

AWESOME!!! PLAIN AWESOME!

[klassikaren]

Cool vid!!!

[kopaczkiller]

stephen_rettie wrote:

remind anyone else of borderlands?

After reading your comment and seeing the video I agree 100% especially in the begining.

[Les Paul Ell]

The song was okay. The bass was sending me to sleep though. Thank god for volume drop at the start of the solo, that saved it. Great solo.

[ChucklesMginty]

Andrew Stockdale should join VR.

[punkieman]

Borderlands you said? :p ... It was the first thing that came to my mind! Great song and vid !!

[spyder52]

Great video!

[jannick]

not enough girl on girl... other than that OK video.
rock on slash!

[michaeltheyoung]

Every song on this record is single-worthy; it's incredible! This one is definitely the weakest on the record, though...a good tune, but why make it your lead single? Hope the album is able to continue to gather steam; he deserves some serious crossover attention for this record.

[Lapidus]

michaeltheyoung wrote:

Every song on this record is single-worthy; it's incredible! This one is definitely the weakest on the record, though...a good tune, but why make it your lead single? Hope the album is able to continue to gather steam; he deserves some serious crossover attention for this record.

I was thinking the exact oposite, this is a great song and the best track of the album, the rest is just meh

[Guitarism12]

stephen_rettie wrote:

remind anyone else of borderlands?

Yer thats what it instantly reminded me of lol.

[soulflyV]

Lapidus wrote:

michaeltheyoung wrote:

Every song on this record is single-worthy; it's incredible! This one is definitely the weakest on the record, though...a good tune, but why make it your lead single? Hope the album is able to continue to gather steam; he deserves some serious crossover attention for this record.

I was thinking the exact oposite, this is a great song and the best track of the album, the rest is just meh

Gotta agree with you on that. The video is pretty meh as well. Would have liked it to have more of a story than just people rocking out to the band playing the song.

[Aftertime]

love the video!

[Rænduz]

Whoa, epilepsy warning.

Otherwise, nice vid.

[CSUTremonti777]

Thought it was kinda boring. Slash can do better. Can't wait until he comes tho I am super excited to see Myles singing some GNR stuff

[HGF]

stockdale changed his look, for good

[beatreebor]

it won't be long before Slash takes over UG.

[Megadethmike]

[S1M0N22]

i must say andrew looks different here.

[the_hoodster]

Video remind me of Fallout

[Eddie4President]

Borderlands? I'd say Slash watches Lost. :p:

[belly_jeanx]

Awesome video, Awesome song, can't wait to hear more!!! Slash is THE MAN!!!! ={)

[KramerW5150]

Lapidus wrote:

michaeltheyoung wrote:

Every song on this record is single-worthy; it's incredible! This one is definitely the weakest on the record, though...a good tune, but why make it your lead single? Hope the album is able to continue to gather steam; he deserves some serious crossover attention for this record.

I was thinking the exact oposite, this is a great song and the best track of the album, the rest is just meh

I dont agree with either of you haha, Id say this track along with nothing to say(m shadows), Back from Cali(myles) and Crucify the Dead(ozzy) are all singles...for some reason i think fergie's beautiful dangerous will be a single too..but im not really a fan of her..shes hot..but she can only kinda sing..

[Honky]

Eddie4President wrote:

Borderlands? I'd say Slash watches Lost. :p:

Exactly what I was thinking!!

[forsaknazrael]

stockdale looks awkward. hah

[98Timberwolf]

stephen_rettie wrote:

remind anyone else of borderlands?

It reminded me of Mad Max. Same thing, I suppose...

[aceofspoons]

did the solo remind anyone else of wishbone ash - throw down the sword?

[TS-Genocide]

i miss the old guns n' roses man.

[Andragon]

A solo that freezes you in time.. aw yea. Best song on the album. Good call.

[TheSilverBeatle]

This song grows on me each time I hear it, never been a big fan of Wolfmother (the music is okay ...just the fact that it is a complete rip off of Black Sabbath with Robert Plant/Jack White on vocals) but this is pretty good.

I thought it would have been cool, in a really cheesey way, if Slash just came up out of that hole in the beginning playing guitar haha

[Davey1313]

The complete album is incredible!!!except for that song(by the sword)...hope there will be other music video from that album that gonna comes out

[StonedFire]

awesome!!

[cp1r3s]

great song, ok video
still didn´t get what he sings after
"Well they claim they'd like to know..."
the australian is killing me :P

[nashmanz]

I am a Slash fan for sure. Followed his whole career, but am I the only one who finds this album to be just so so... Nothing really special going on here besides the fact that he has guest vox.

[londonsteve]

This is Slash back to his best,great song,awesome vocals..

[MegadethFan18]

Just went on that "ask Slash stuff" forum and like 90% of the questions asked are stuff like "What if your fave food" etc

If I could ask Slash stuff I would ask him about GnR and other stuff like that. It's what everyone is thinking after all. I remember Axl did some fan Q&A when Chinese Democracy came out and no one was asking Axl what his fave food was. Plus Axl called someone a C***

[waysay]

I am really happy that the audio track for the video was remastered, because on the cd you can;t hear the vocals very well. Great video, The metal top hat was good.

[Patriot1zzy]

Good song. Although, the voice gets annoying after a while n(^.^)n

[Jmoarguitar]

stephen_rettie wrote:

remind anyone else of borderlands?

I was thinking the same thing, and then i seen your comment hahaha. Anywys i don't this shoulda been a single. It's very led zeppelin-ish and it's very awesome but i think he should have picked somethign with more energy

[Jmoarguitar]

MegadethFan18 wrote:

Just went on that "ask Slash stuff" forum and like 90% of the questions asked are stuff like "What if your fave food" etc

If I could ask Slash stuff I would ask him about GnR and other stuff like that. It's what everyone is thinking after all. I remember Axl did some fan Q&A when Chinese Democracy came out and no one was asking Axl what his fave food was. Plus Axl called someone a C***

Don't ask him about gn'r haha last thing he would want is to hear about gn'r ask him about vr

[MaXiMuse]

I think this is really boring. Only the bridge was ok...

[Tom Martin]

Really dull song with an incredibly insipid solo. I hoped for more.
Plus Stockdale just sounded like he wanted to be Chris Cornell. Disappointed.

[rockgodman]

i do sorta think slash is overrated, but i really like this song although i was expecting a guitarists solo album to have more guitar in it but this song is pretty bad ass.

[cp0uch]

andrew stockdale, coolest man alive. those are definitely his lyrics.

[Igamikun]

MightyAl wrote:

Reminds me a bit of the Slither video. Not that that's a bad thing, cos I liked that, too.

I'd say more like She Builds Quick Machines, it's just kinda Slashes thing, the ol' steampunkish videos nowadays.

[cbusch08]

This is a great single! The beginning is epic and the chorus is definitely epic. This song is fantastic, but the video was a little strange for my taste. Really looking forward to seeing more singles, maybe Beautiful Dangerous? Slash adapting to all of these very very different singers is such an amazing feat in the music world! Keep it up Slash, you are the man!

[grimms]

This video looks like a mission from Fallout 3? :S

[GIBSONroks6167]

stephen_rettie wrote:

remind anyone else of borderlands?

lmao. that's EXACTLY what I thought from the moment it started.

[Tster]

so awesome!

[synysterfan101]

um slash is married with two kids, his wife would probably divorce him and take his kids. awesome video tho

jannick wrote:

not enough girl on girl... other than that OK video.
rock on slash!

[loaded_]

Megadethmike wrote:

Slash is over rated, he gets way to much credit wat about the underdog guitar players like mark morton, kerry king,Scott Ian, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Angus Young or Dave Mustaine really Slash isnt the greatest guitar player there are less than professional guitar players who are way better than him

if any guitarist is overrated then it must be angus young. and kerry king isn't that great either.

[GuernZila]

It's pretty cool I guess, if you are into that sort of thing

[Pat_s1t]

stephen_rettie wrote:
remind anyone else of borderlands?

First thing I thought of when the video and music started.

[hanselrocks1]

definitly borderlands-ish

[W>O]

WOOWWW..

[Highwaytohell]

Dude UG has a bigger boner for slash than rosie o donnel does for cheesecake

[aig91]

Great video.

Checked

[Bostonrocks]

HOLY CRAP this is what the UG missile silo was supposed to be!

[Shreddinator666]

Highwaytohell wrote:

Dude UG has a bigger boner for slash than rosie o donnel does for cheesecake

Yeah I know what you mean, UG seems kind of obsessed with him, which is fine (as long as they don't resort to stalking).

[ultimatestudent]

so who needs who now, axl?

[angrypom]

sweet song, although i can't say im a fan of andrew though, suppose its not an easy thing to find a vocalist who can stack up to axl...just a shame he's become what he is now.

[csrogers87]

am I the only one who isn't impressed...this leaves me yawning. It's not a very memorable song and in my opinion the vocals suck because his voice is annoying....literally the best part was slash's solo. He should have just done that the whole song.

[Wayward Sean]

Andrew Stockdale and Slash sound terrific together, I hope they collaborate on other songs in the future. This was a rockin' single, and I loved the music video. It was everything you've come to expect from Slash.

[Jamie187]

really like the video, sort of a crossover between quick machines and slither, but i thought the guitar was quite quite on here compared with the levels on the album?

[Stampede]

i thought that was the wolfmother singer.

[Tom Martin]

ultimatestudent wrote:

so who needs who now, axl?

Slash still needs Axl.
Slash hasn't done anything noteworthy since leaving GnR.

[sweep456]

!!!NICE#!!

[Axeman96]

The albums better than chinese democracy, much more modern. I like this song but I think back from cali and crucify the dead are much better singles and would have sold more records.

[KataklysmDeth]

I was very VERY impressed and surprised with the song he did with fergie. she needs to be in a rock band. Musically this album is NOT as good as Chinese Democracy but this album is more fun to listen to. When you have buckethead and bumblefoot working on the songs along with robert finch and so on, its hard to beat that MUSICALLY.

[KataklysmDeth]

By the way, on the subject of Ozzy..looking at his Scream album cover does anyone else think "Dio"?

[Phaustho]

Horrible drums. Horrible. The song's not bad, but the drumming work is so terribly slow and simple and weak...

[CalebJThompson]

haha steampunk'd slash's hat.

[buddy_69_7]

Nice solo

[apple_apple]

not a great song ... but not bad ... btw they should stop making news about slash -.-

[Megadethmike]

loaded_ wrote:

Megadethmike wrote:

Slash is over rated, he gets way to much credit wat about the underdog guitar players like mark morton, kerry king,Scott Ian, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Angus Young or Dave Mustaine really Slash isnt the greatest guitar player there are less than professional guitar players who are way better than him
if any guitarist is overrated then it must be angus young. and kerry king isn't that great either.

well my friend they are better than you :p

[KataklysmDeth]

Megadethmike wrote:

loaded_ wrote:

Megadethmike wrote:

Slash is over rated, he gets way to much credit wat about the underdog guitar players like mark morton, kerry king,Scott Ian, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Angus Young or Dave Mustaine really Slash isnt the greatest guitar player there are less than professional guitar players who are way better than him
if any guitarist is overrated then it must be angus young. and kerry king isn't that great either.well my friend they are better than you :p

you contradicted yourself in that comment...by the way kerry king sucks ass.

[super collasal]

stephen_rettie wrote:

remind anyone else of borderlands?

lol yea thats the first thing that came to my mind

[Axeman96]

Problem with chinese democracy was not the musicians it was way, way over done and it showed so much. This album on the other hand is get in a studio, knock out an album and have a good time and of all the years democracy took to make. This album just comes across more genuine and fun and that it was rock n roll is about.

[deadlyMETAL]

First thing that came to my mind when I saw this video wasn't Borderlands, but steampunk. Sweet idea for a video, I loved it.

[slash_legendary]

Lovin' the new album, a lot of different styles but still got that Slash edge to it! The video is pretty cool, keep at it Slash your a legend and always will be!