{"id":38676,"date":"2016-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=38676"},"modified":"2016-04-06T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T10:25:03","slug":"news-asking-alexandria-release-fourth-studio-album-the-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-asking-alexandria-release-fourth-studio-album-the-black\/","title":{"rendered":"ASKING ALEXANDRIA: \u2018The Black\u2019 Album Enters US Top Ten (April 6th, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>ASKING ALEXANDRIA: \u2018The Black\u2019 Album Enters US Top Ten<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>April 6th, 2016<\/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 \/>\n<em>The Black<\/em> &#8211; the fourth full-length studio album from English metalcore group Asking Alexandria &#8211; has shifted roughly 30,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its first week of release, of which 28,000 were pure album sales. The effort charted at position 9 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>Asking Alexandria issued fourth full-length studio album <em>The Black<\/em> on March 25th, 2016 through Sumerian Records.<\/p>\n<p>The outing marks the first Asking Alexandria effort to feature vocalist Denis Shaforostov, formerly of Ukrainian metalcore band Make Me Famous. Vocalist Danny Worsnop exited the ranks in January 2015.<\/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\/12\/askingalexandria_theblacknews.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. \u2018Let It Sleep\u2019<br \/>\n02. \u2018The Black\u2019<br \/>\n03. \u2018I Won&#8217;t Give In\u2019<br \/>\n04. \u2018Sometimes It Ends\u2019<br \/>\n05. \u2018The Lost Souls\u2019<br \/>\n06. \u2018Just A Slave To Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll\u2019<br \/>\n07. \u2018Send Me Home\u2019<br \/>\n08. \u2018We&#8217;ll Be Okay\u2019<br \/>\n09. \u2018Here I Am\u2019<br \/>\n10. \u2018Gone\u2019<br \/>\n11. \u2018Undivided\u2019<br \/>\n12. \u2018Circled By The Wolves\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Music videos were filmed for the title track as well as \u2018I Won\u2019t Give In\u2019. Directed by Ramon Boutviseth, a music video was also filmed for the song \u2018Let It Sleep\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Third studio record <em>From Death To Destiny<\/em> was released in August 2013.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VX0Bu_klgvo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b1RKaRgVFKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7appuMrrn7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASKING ALEXANDRIA: \u2018The Black\u2019 Album Enters US Top Ten April 6th, 2016 The Black &#8211; the fourth full-length studio album from English metalcore group Asking Alexandria &#8211; has shifted roughly 30,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its first week of release, of which 28,000 were pure album sales. The effort charted at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asking-alexandria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38676","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=38676"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42664,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38676\/revisions\/42664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}