{"id":26284,"date":"2015-03-26T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=26284"},"modified":"2015-04-22T20:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:08:53","slug":"news-abbath-retires-immortal-and-forms-namesake-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-abbath-retires-immortal-and-forms-namesake-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbath Retires IMMORTAL And Forms Namesake Group (March 26th, 2015) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>Abbath Retires IMMORTAL And Forms Namesake Group<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>March 26th, 2015<\/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 \/>\nAbbath (Olve Eikemo) retired Bergen, Norway-based black metal group Immortal and subsequently formed a namesake group, revealing this development on March 26th, 2015. Abbath was the vocalist, guitarist and founding member of Immortal.<\/p>\n<p>According to Abbath, he had been writing and rehearsing material, with a slew of material ready to be recorded, but was unable to come to an agreement in order to move forward with the other members of Immortal. Therefore, he formed a new outfit.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Abbath claimed he rightfully attempted to secure exclusive rights to the Immortal name and logo after lyricist \/ guitarist Demonaz (Harald N\u00e6vdal) and drummer Horgh (Reidar Horghagen) effectively quit the ensemble. The trio had been a part of Immortal since 1996, issuing five full-lengths under that line-up; <em>Blizzard Beasts<\/em> (1997), <em>At The Heart Of Winter<\/em> (1999), <em>Damned In Black<\/em> (2000), <em>Sons Of Northern Darkness<\/em> (2002), and <em>All Shall Fall<\/em> (2009).<\/p>\n<p>The Abbath band intend to issue a debut studio record in the next two years, and also perform live in select instances. A London date at The Forum on September 18th, 2015 has been confirmed, as well as a February 2016 headlining slot at Blastfest in Bergen, Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbath Retires IMMORTAL And Forms Namesake Group March 26th, 2015 Abbath (Olve Eikemo) retired Bergen, Norway-based black metal group Immortal and subsequently formed a namesake group, revealing this development on March 26th, 2015. Abbath was the vocalist, guitarist and founding member of Immortal. According to Abbath, he had been writing and rehearsing material, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850,1849],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbath-news","category-immortal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284","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=26284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28226,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26284\/revisions\/28226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}