{"id":117086,"date":"2025-10-27T19:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=117086"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:12:43","slug":"the-agony-scene-new-guitarist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=117086","title":{"rendered":"THE AGONY SCENE &#8211; New Guitarist Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>The Agony Scene<\/strong> are gearing up for a musical comeback, with their first new album since 2018\u2019s \u201c<strong>Tormentor<\/strong>\u201d in the works. Earlier this month, the band\u2019s vocalist <strong>Mike Williams<\/strong> confirmed the news of their upcoming fifth full-length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Since then, the band have announced that guitarist <strong>BJ Sampson<\/strong> (ex-<strong>Enterprise Earth<\/strong>) has officially joined the band, complete with a songwriter role. <strong>Sampson<\/strong> had previously worked with <strong>Williams<\/strong> and <strong>The Agony Scene<\/strong> alumnus <strong>Ryan Folder<\/strong> back in 2021 on the <strong>Imperium AD<\/strong> project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agony Scene are gearing up for a musical comeback, with their first new album&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117087,"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-117086","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\/117086","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=117086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117088,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117086\/revisions\/117088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}