{"id":23553,"date":"2018-09-02T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23553"},"modified":"2018-09-02T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T19:49:55","slug":"so-ive-read-that-metal-is-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/02\/so-ive-read-that-metal-is-family\/","title":{"rendered":"So I&#8217;ve Read That Metal Is Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read in <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/23\/hows-your-balance-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Metal Hammer<\/em><\/a> magazine that metal is family, but I found that hard to believe.  When I was growing up, the kids who listened to metal in our trailer park certainly didn&#8217;t treat the awkward, small younger version of me like family at all.  So I&#8217;ve been skeptical of the claim even as I&#8217;ve outgrown being small.<\/p>\n<p>However, stories like this make me reconsider: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2018\/08\/31\/ghost-finishing-milwaukee-show-honor-fan-who-died-concert\/1155581002\/\" target=\"_new\">After a fan&#8217;s death at Milwaukee show, metal band Ghost coming back to finish concert in his honor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Theatrical metal band Ghost&#8217;s sold-out show at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on May 31 came to an abrupt and tragic end when fan Jeff Fortune collapsed at the venue and died that evening.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * * *<\/p>\n<p>The band also will be selling an exclusive shirt at that show, with an illustration of band frontman Cardinal Copia and Fortune wearing Michael Myers costumes from &#8220;Halloween,&#8221; with all proceeds being donated to Fortune&#8217;s family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ghost recently came to my attention because the local radio station has been playing their new song &#8220;Rats&#8221;, and I liked the sound of it:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C_ijc7A5oAc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I recently considered picking up their latest album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07BZB64G8\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B07BZB64G8&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=63f509430332457ce8292cb50b50fe96\" target=\"_new\">Prequelle<\/a><\/em>, but I opted for <em>Apex<\/em> from <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/23\/metals-finest-hour-is-not-in-the-past\/\" target=\"_new\">Unleash the Archers<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n<p>But you can bet that <em>Prequelle<\/em> will find its way to my mailbox soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read in Metal Hammer magazine that metal is family, but I found that hard to believe. When I was growing up, the kids who listened to metal in our trailer park certainly didn&#8217;t treat the awkward, small younger version of me like family at all. So I&#8217;ve been skeptical of the claim even as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23553"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23555,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23553\/revisions\/23555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}