{"id":22660,"date":"2011-09-02T07:33:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=22660"},"modified":"2011-09-02T07:36:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T12:36:01","slug":"rhapsody-of-fire-announce-new-bassist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=22660","title":{"rendered":"RHAPSODY OF FIRE &#8211; Announce New Bassist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oliver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oliver-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"oliver\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oliver-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oliver.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRHAPSODY OF FIRE is proud to announce the name of a new band member who will join forces with Fabio Lione, Alex Staropoli, Tom Hess and Alex Holzwarth. German bass player Oliver Holzwarth (brother of Rhapsody Of Fire drummer Alex Holzwarth) has joined the band as an official and permanent member of Rhapsody Of Fire, and will be involved in both live performances and studio recordings.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOliver is an excellent bass player who has toured with Blind Guardian, Tarja Turunen and Sieges Even and has recorded several studio albums with Blind Guardian.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAlex Staropoli says: \u201cIt\u2019s a true privilege and honor to have the two Holzwarth brothers playing together in Rhapsody Of Fire. I am sure it will be fantastic to have the best rhythmic section on this planet, a unique and true force of nature, on our side. I am really looking forward to hearing them shaking the stages around the world on our upcoming world tour.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSource: Metal Rules<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhapsodyoffire.com\/\">http:\/\/www.rhapsodyoffire.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RHAPSODY OF FIRE is proud to announce the name of a new band member who&#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-22660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660","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=22660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}