{"id":27509,"date":"2021-01-16T10:13:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27509"},"modified":"2021-01-16T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T16:13:48","slug":"iced-earth-sells-74-million-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/16\/iced-earth-sells-74-million-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Iced Earth Sells 74 Million Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/15\/pro-trump-heavy-metal-guitarist-idd-as-capitol-rioter-report\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro-Trump heavy metal guitarist reportedly identified as Capitol rioter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A pro-President Trump heavy metal guitarist has been identified as one of the US Capitol rioters, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources told the Indianapolis Star Wednesday that one of the suspects in the deadly Jan. 6 siege is Jon Schaffer, a founding member of a Florida-based heavy metal band called Iced Earth who is originally from central Indiana.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article also notes no charges were filed against the artist.  Maybe that means <em>yet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Iced Earth&#8217;s Web site, they have released like 30 albums and EPs since the founding in 1988.  I have never heard of the band, but that&#8217;s true for most metal bands, even metal bands with recording contracts and multi-decade careers.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect to find Iced Earth on my musical balance posts, though: I&#8217;m buying jazz lately, not heavy metal.  And by &#8220;lately,&#8221; I meant this week.  Last week was a long time ago.  I cannot remember that far unless I look at my purchase history.<\/p>\n<p>But I want you to know, gentle reader, I am keeping up the latest metal news for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Trump heavy metal guitarist reportedly identified as Capitol rioter: A pro-President Trump heavy metal guitarist has been identified as one of the US Capitol rioters, according to a report. Multiple sources told the Indianapolis Star Wednesday that one of the suspects in the deadly Jan. 6 siege is Jon Schaffer, a founding member of a [&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-27509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509","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=27509"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27512,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27509\/revisions\/27512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}