{"id":73241,"date":"2018-12-21T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T06:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=73241"},"modified":"2018-12-21T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T06:15:00","slug":"the-amity-affliction-welcome-new-drummer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=73241","title":{"rendered":"THE AMITY AFFLICTION &#8211; Welcome New Drummer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Amity Affliction - Feels Like I&#039;m Dying [OFFICIAL VIDEO]\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q2eLRQSbdZ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>THE AMITY AFFLICTION<\/strong> have welcomed <strong>Defeater<\/strong> drummer <strong>Joe Longobardi<\/strong> to their line-up in a full-time role. He takes over the spot in the previously held by <strong>Ryan Burt<\/strong>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprp.com\/2018\/02\/05\/news\/amity-affliction-part-ways-drummer-ryan-burt\/\">exited the band this past February<\/a> to address his mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Brisbane post-hardcore act the Amity Afflction were formed in 2002 by Ahren Stringer and Troy Brady, a pair of longtime pals &#8212; still high-schoolers at the time &#8212; who had been affected by the death of their friend in a road accident. The band &#8212; a quartet rounded out by bassist Garth Buchanan and drummer Lachlan Faulkner &#8212; released a demo in 2003 and an EP in 2004, but didn&#8217;t start making waves in earnest until sometime later. In 2005, after unclean vocalist Joel Birch joined the fold, Amity Affliction went on a touring spell, working up a nationwide reputation as a powerful live band. In 2007, they added keyboard player Trad Nathan; switched drummers, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/ryan-burt-mn0000986824\">Ryan Burt<\/a> replacing Faulkner; and parted ways with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/buchanan-mn0002103088\">Buchanan<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/stringer-mn0003006958\">Stringer<\/a> taking on bass duties. The newly formed group then hit the studio to record the EP High Hopes, followed in 2008 by the debut album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/album\/severed-ties-mw0001692629\">Severed Ties<\/a>, which peaked at number 26 on the ARIA charts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE AMITY AFFLICTION have welcomed Defeater drummer Joe Longobardi to their line-up in a full-time&#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-73241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241","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=73241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73246,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73241\/revisions\/73246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}