{"id":26368,"date":"2016-05-20T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=26368"},"modified":"2018-05-27T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:07:43","slug":"news-flotsam-and-jetsam-release-self-titled-12th-studio-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-flotsam-and-jetsam-release-self-titled-12th-studio-album\/","title":{"rendered":"FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Release Self-Titled 12th Studio Album (May 20th, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Release Self-Titled 12th Studio Album<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>May 20th, 2016<\/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\/2018\/05\/flotsamandjetsam2015promophotonews.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>Phoenix, Arizona-based thrash metal group Flotsam And Jetsam issued their self-titled 12th studio full-length album on May 20th, 2016 through AFM Records.<\/p>\n<p>The outing marked the band\u2019s first to feature guitarist Steve Conley, bassist Michael Spencer and drummer Jason Bittner (Shadows Fall).<\/p>\n<p>Mixing and mastering was handled by Chris \u201cThe Wizard\u201d Collier. Cover artwork duties fell to Andy Pilkington, meanwhile.<\/p>\n<p>The track listing is as follows;<\/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\/2016\/03\/flotsamandjetsam_flotsamandjetsamnews.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>01. \u2018Seventh Seal\u2019<br \/>\n02. \u2018Life Is A Mess\u2019<br \/>\n03. \u2018Taser\u2019<br \/>\n04. \u2018Iron Maiden\u2019<br \/>\n05. \u2018Verge Of Tragedy\u2019<br \/>\n06. \u2018Creeper\u2019<br \/>\n07. \u2018L.O.T.D.\u2019<br \/>\n08. \u2018The Incantation\u2019<br \/>\n09. \u2018Monkey Wrench\u2019<br \/>\n10. \u2018Time To Go\u2019<br \/>\n11. \u2018Smoking Gun\u2019<br \/>\n12. \u2018Forbidden Territories\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Flotsam And Jetsam\u2019s line-up was as follows;<\/p>\n<p>Eric \u201cAK\u201d Knutson (vocals)<br \/>\nSteve Conley (guitar)<br \/>\nMichael Gilbert (guitar)<br \/>\nMichael Spencer (bass)<br \/>\nJason Bittner (drums, Shadows Fall)<\/p>\n<p>The track \u2018Forbidden Territories\u2019 was originally scheduled for inclusion on second outing <em>No Place For Disgrace<\/em> (May 1988), but didn\u2019t appear.<\/p>\n<p>A music video was filmed for the track \u2018Life Is A Mess\u2019. In addition, official lyric videos were created for the songs \u2018Iron Maiden\u2019, \u2018Time To Go\u2019, \u2018Seventh Seal\u2019 and \u2018Monkey Wrench\u2019. All five clips can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>Eleventh studio record <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-flotsam-and-jetsam-ugly-noise\/\"><em>Ugly Noise<\/em><\/a> was released in December 2012.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jI8rWo2osaU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fQ77YEzem_I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z2aXxhbcl-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HTubOLCLCFM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O33v2fhCgPM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOTSAM AND JETSAM Release Self-Titled 12th Studio Album May 20th, 2016 Phoenix, Arizona-based thrash metal group Flotsam And Jetsam issued their self-titled 12th studio full-length album on May 20th, 2016 through AFM Records. The outing marked the band\u2019s first to feature guitarist Steve Conley, bassist Michael Spencer and drummer Jason Bittner (Shadows Fall). Mixing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1856],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flotsam-and-jetsam-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368","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=26368"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69285,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions\/69285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}