{"id":78705,"date":"2020-01-01T16:46:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T21:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=78705"},"modified":"2020-01-01T16:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T21:47:42","slug":"blackguard-streaming-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=78705","title":{"rendered":"BLACKGUARD &#8211; Streaming New Album"},"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=\"Blackguard &#039;Storm&#039; FULL ALBUM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tq12rP-JXg4?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 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong> BLACKGUARD<\/strong> have premiered their new album \u201cStorm\u201d in its entirety ahead of its scheduled release this coming Friday, January 3rd. The outing is their first since 2011\u2019s \u201cFirefight\u201d and includes several guest appearances, including Morgan Lander (Kittie\/Karkaos), Cradle Of Filth&#8217;s Lindsay  Schoolcraft and Scar Symmetry\u2018s Per Nilsson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> If ever there was a test case proving that hard work, tenacity, a healthy amount suffering and word of mouth pays off, BLACKGUARD is it. Formed in 2001 as a genuine black metal outfit, the heavy metal sextet began as lesser known \u201cPROFUGUS MORTIS\u201d, made popular in their hometown of Montr\u00e9al. Hungry for bigger stages, they fought a pitched battle to stand out amongst their international metal brethren, going through numerous line-up changes along the way. Over a decade later, BLACKGUARD stands strong, remaining the pride and  joy of the French-Canadian death metal scene.<br \/> <br \/> In late 2004, the  band welcomed gritty vocalist Paul Zinay, bassist \u00c9tienne Mailloux, and  began working on a cleaner, more definitive sound.  Committed to their  Northern roots, the band zeroed in on their own unique blend of  Scandinavian folk-metal and melodic black metal. \u201cThis comes to us  naturally,&#8221; says Zinay &#8220;and we\u2019re definitely the sum of our parts.  What\u2019s going on around us influences us to a certain degree, of course,  but in the end we\u2019re putting our own spin on it and giving the band its  own defining characteristics. Before we came in the band\u2019s sound was a  lot more progressive black metal; there were a lot of riffs and tempo  changes, but we\u2019ve gone in a much more straightforward direction since  then. I guess we took on a power metal and a straight up folk metal  influence along the way.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLACKGUARD have premiered their new album \u201cStorm\u201d in its entirety ahead of its scheduled release&#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-78705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78705","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=78705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78707,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78705\/revisions\/78707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}