{"id":80157,"date":"2020-04-08T17:51:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=80157"},"modified":"2020-04-08T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:51:08","slug":"helstar-sign-with-massacre-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=80157","title":{"rendered":"HELSTAR &#8211; Sign With Massacre Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  data-gnlv=\"hey\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/helstarband2020_638.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80159\" width=\"369\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/helstarband2020_638.jpg 638w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/helstarband2020_638-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/helstarband2020_638-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Texas power metal act <strong>HELSTAR<\/strong> have inked a deal with <strong>Massacre Records<\/strong>. The band is preparing new material and expects to drop a new album later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>HELSTAR<\/strong>&#8216;s latest LP, <strong>&#8220;Vampiro&#8221;<\/strong>, was released in August 2016 via <strong>EMP Label Group<\/strong>. The effort was said to be a continuation of <strong>HELSTAR<\/strong>&#8216;s classic 1989 <strong>Metal Blade<\/strong> release <strong>&#8220;Nosferatu&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">An influential force in the American power metal movement, <strong>HELSTAR<\/strong> was formed in Houston in 1982 by guitarist <strong>Larry Barragan<\/strong>, who quickly assembled the band&#8217;s original lineup, including singer <strong>James Rivera<\/strong>. <strong>HELSTAR<\/strong> released its debut LP, <strong>&#8220;Burning Star&#8221;<\/strong>, in 1984 via <strong>Combat Records<\/strong>, and followed it up with a string of seminal releases, including <strong>&#8220;Nosferatu&#8221;<\/strong>, before a &#8217;90s hiatus. The band became active again with <strong>Barragan<\/strong> and <strong>Rivera<\/strong> in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Joining <strong>Rivera<\/strong> and <strong>Barragan<\/strong> in <strong>HELSTAR<\/strong>&#8216;s current lineup are guitarist <strong>Andrew Atwood<\/strong>, bassist <strong>Garrick Smith<\/strong> and drummer <strong>Michael Lewis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas power metal act HELSTAR have inked a deal with Massacre Records. The band is&#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-80157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80157","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=80157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80160,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80157\/revisions\/80160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}