{"id":13494,"date":"2010-04-20T07:21:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=13494"},"modified":"2010-04-20T07:21:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:21:57","slug":"balfor-guitarist-quits-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=13494","title":{"rendered":"BALFOR &#8211; Guitarist Quits Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i291.photobucket.com\/albums\/ll298\/Pulverised\/Balforpromophoto-1.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"tmd\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nUkrainian black metallers BALFOR, who recently signed to Pulverised Records, issued a statement announcing guitarist Agnarr\u2019s unexpected departure. Agnarr was forced to quit the band following a recent injury that\u2019s said to be serious enough to stop the guitarist from performing in the studio or live. No further info on the injury was given. Comments BALFOR founding frontman Thorgeir: \u201cWe are very sorry that this has happened to Agnarr.  It\u2019s a terrible thing when a musician is no longer able to play, and he is one of those musicians with a natural talent and a lot of experience.  We hope that he\u2019ll be able to overcome the effects of the injury and eventually return to playing. BALFOR is certainly going to miss both his musicianship and his companionship.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDragon-T, former guitarist of thrash metal band Hell:On, will replace Agnarr.  \u201cOnce again we\u2019ve been lucky in our search for a guitarist,\u201d Thorgeir notes. \u201cDragon-T is as skilled as Agnarr, both live and when it comes to recording, and the fact that he was available just when we needed him was a stroke of good fortune for us.\u201d  Dragon-T\u2019s first live appearance with BALFOR was at the Metal Heads Mission Festival in Kiev this weekend where BALFOR headlined.  Upcoming live dates for BALFOR include:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n5\/22\/2010 Hot Jam Club &#8211; Lugansk, UA<br \/>\n<br \/>\n5\/23\/2010 Vorovskogo Club &#8211; Dimitroy, UA<br \/>\n<br \/>\n7\/6\/2010 Rockmaraton Festival &#8211;  Pecs, HU<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBALFOR will release their debut full-length, Barbaric Blood, later this year. Further info TBA.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/balforhorde\">http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/balforhorde<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian black metallers BALFOR, who recently signed to Pulverised Records, issued a statement announcing guitarist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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-13494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494","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=13494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}