{"id":24787,"date":"2015-05-29T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=24787"},"modified":"2020-08-12T00:03:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T23:03:37","slug":"news-armored-saint-release-seventh-studio-album-win-hands-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-armored-saint-release-seventh-studio-album-win-hands-down\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMORED SAINT Release Seventh Studio Album \u2018Win Hands Down\u2019 (May 29th, 2015) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>ARMORED SAINT Release Seventh Studio Album \u2018Win Hands Down\u2019<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>May 29th, 2015<\/strong><\/span><\/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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/armoredsaint2015promophoto1news.jpg\" 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>Los Angeles, California-based heavy metal group Armored Saint issued seventh full-length studio album <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-armored-saint-win-hands-down\/\"><em>Win Hands Down<\/em><\/a> on May 29th, 2015 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria through Metal Blade Records. The label also scheduled general European release for June 1st, with North American release taking place on the 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Motor Sister singer Pearl Aday contributes guest vocals on the track \u2018With A Full Head Of Steam\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\/2015\/04\/armoredsaint_winhandsdownnews.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 is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>01. \u2018Win Hands Down\u2019<br \/>\n02. \u2018Mess\u2019<br \/>\n03. \u2018An Exercise In Debauchery\u2019<br \/>\n04. \u2018Muscle Memory\u2019<br \/>\n05. \u2018That Was Then, Way Back When\u2019<br \/>\n06. \u2018With A Full Head Of Steam\u2019 (feat. Pearl Aday)<br \/>\n07. \u2018In An Instant\u2019<br \/>\n08. \u2018Dive\u2019<br \/>\n09. \u2018Up Yours\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Armored Saint\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>John Bush (vocals)<br \/>\nPhil Sandoval (guitar)<br \/>\nJeff Duncan (guitar)<br \/>\nJoey Vera (bass)<br \/>\nGonzo Sandoval (drums)<\/p>\n<p><em>Win Hands Down<\/em> charted on the following Billboard charts in its first week of release; Top 200 Current Albums (#71), Heatseeker (#3), Hard Music Albums (#3), Rock Albums (#15), Independent Albums (#17), Physical Albums (#52), and Digital Albums (#156). In addition, the album charted at position 33 on the German Top 100 Album Chart, and position 32 on the Canadian Hard Music Charts.<\/p>\n<p>Music videos were filmed for the title track and the song \u2018An Exercise In Debauchery\u2019. Both clips can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth studio record <em>La Raza<\/em> was released in March 2010 via Metal Blade.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MA-C8_zgLXo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T8uBAZ35gJ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARMORED SAINT Release Seventh Studio Album \u2018Win Hands Down\u2019 May 29th, 2015 Los Angeles, California-based heavy metal group Armored Saint issued seventh full-length studio album Win Hands Down on May 29th, 2015 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria through Metal Blade Records. The label also scheduled general European release for June 1st, with North American release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1653],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armored-saint-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24787","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=24787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85257,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24787\/revisions\/85257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}