{"id":116484,"date":"2025-06-28T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=116484"},"modified":"2025-06-28T18:47:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:47:36","slug":"dimmu-borgir-announce-new-bassist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=116484","title":{"rendered":"DIMMU BORGIR &#8211; Announce New Guitarist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Norwegian symphonic black metal band <strong>DIMMU BORGIR<\/strong> confirmed the replacement for <strong>Galder<\/strong> (<strong>Thomas Rune Anderson<\/strong>), who exited the band last summer. The group have welcomed <strong>Damage<\/strong> (<strong>Kjell Karlsen<\/strong> of <strong>Chrome Division<\/strong>, etc. fame) to their ranks. In a statement shared on social media yesterday, June 27th, the group offered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cWe\u2019re excited to proudly welcome <strong>Damage<\/strong> to the team, and we\u2019re all looking forward to sharing the stage with him this summer and onwards. It\u2019s already been a pleasure working and rehearsing with <strong>Damage<\/strong> over the last couple of months and we hope that you, the fans, will join us in welcoming him to the line up!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The group performed their first show with him since the announcement yesterday, June 27th as part of the \u2018<strong>Tons Of Rock<\/strong>\u2018 festival in Oslo, Norway. Further shows include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">08\/01 Wacken, GER \u2013 Wacken Open Air<br \/>08\/03 Saint Maurice de Gourdans, FRA \u2013 Sylak Open Air<br \/>08\/06 Tilburg, NET \u2013 013<br \/>08\/08 Jaromer, CZE \u2013 Brutal Assault<br \/>08\/10 Kortrijk, BEL \u2013 Alcatraz<br \/>08\/13 Dinkelsbuhl, GER \u2013 Summer Breeze<br \/>08\/15 Carhaix, FRA \u2013 Motocultor Festival<br \/>08\/17 Cudrefin, SWI \u2013 Rock The Lakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian symphonic black metal band DIMMU BORGIR confirmed the replacement for Galder (Thomas Rune Anderson),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116484"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116491,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116484\/revisions\/116491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}