{"id":16692,"date":"2014-01-21T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=16692"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:14:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T13:14:45","slug":"news-monte-pittman-releases-third-solo-album-the-power-of-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-monte-pittman-releases-third-solo-album-the-power-of-three\/","title":{"rendered":"MONTE PITTMAN Releases Third Solo Album \u2018The Power Of Three\u2019 (January 14th, 2014) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>MONTE PITTMAN Releases Third Solo Album \u2018The Power Of Three\u2019<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>January 21st, 2014<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nLongview, Texas-based guitarist Monte Pittman \u2013 who had performed for the likes of Madonna as well as Prong \u2013 issued third solo full-length album <em>The Power Of Three<\/em> on January 21st, 2014 through Metal Blade Records.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside drummer Kane Ritchotte and bassist Max Whipple, Pittman travelled to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2013 to record the outing with producer Flemming Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Power Of Three<\/em>\u2019s cover artwork was designed by Cam Rackam. The piece featured a portrait of Charon, the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. This represented Pittman\u2019s musical journey from what he did before and where he felt he was with <em>The Power Of Three<\/em> and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A Dark Horse\u2019 was released as an iTunes single, the single featuring an artwork by Gustav Klimt titled \u2018The Golden Knight (Life Is A Struggle)\u2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/montepittman_thepowerofthreenews.jpg\" height=\"250\" width=\"250\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The track listing was as follows;<\/p>\n<p>01. \u2018A Dark Horse\u2019<br \/>\n02. \u2018Delusions Of Grandeur\u2019<br \/>\n03. \u2018Everything\u2019s Undone\u2019<br \/>\n04. \u2018Blood Hungry Thirst\u2019<br \/>\n05. \u2018On My Mind\u2019<br \/>\n06. \u2018Away From Here\u2019<br \/>\n07. \u2018Before The Mourning Son\u2019<br \/>\n08. \u2018End Of The World\u2019<br \/>\n09. \u2018Missing\u2019<br \/>\n10. \u2018All Is Fair In Love And War\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Vince Edwards, a music video was filmed for the track \u2018Before The Mourning Son\u2019. Second studio record <em>Pain, Love &#038; Destiny<\/em> was released in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTE PITTMAN Releases Third Solo Album \u2018The Power Of Three\u2019 January 21st, 2014 Longview, Texas-based guitarist Monte Pittman \u2013 who had performed for the likes of Madonna as well as Prong \u2013 issued third solo full-length album The Power Of Three on January 21st, 2014 through Metal Blade Records. Alongside drummer Kane Ritchotte and bassist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[966],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monte-pittman-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16692"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24131,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16692\/revisions\/24131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}