{"id":39066,"date":"2016-02-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=39066"},"modified":"2017-07-01T19:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T19:26:13","slug":"news-kill-the-kong-release-self-titled-debut-studio-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-kill-the-kong-release-self-titled-debut-studio-album\/","title":{"rendered":"KILL THE KONG Release Self-Titled Debut Studio Album (February 29th, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>KILL THE KONG Release Self-Titled Debut Studio Album<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>February 29th, 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\/2017\/07\/killthekong2016promophotonews.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>V\u00e4ster\u00e5s, Sweden-based metalcore band Kill The Kong issued self-titled debut full-length studio album on February 29th, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The album has been made available for streaming in its entirety through YouTube and can be accessed below.<\/p>\n<p>The outing was recorded, mixed and mastered during June 2015 by Dino Medanhodzic at Radionika Studios in Stockholm. Cover artwork duties fell to Alexander Lindberg.<\/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\/01\/killthekong_killthekongnews.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. \u2018The Creature\u2019<br \/>\n02. \u2018Black Bones\u2019<br \/>\n03. \u2018Torn Apart\u2019<br \/>\n04. \u2018Caged\u2019<br \/>\n05. \u2018The Destination\u2019<br \/>\n06. \u2018Ignite\u2019<br \/>\n07. \u2018No Lights\u2019<br \/>\n08. \u2018Wrath\u2019<br \/>\n09. \u2018Is This The End?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kill The Kong\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Timo Kumpum\u00e4ki (vocals)<br \/>\nSebastian Jarfelt (vocals)<br \/>\nMattias Sj\u00f6strand (guitar)<br \/>\nMikael Karlsson (guitar)<br \/>\nAndreas Sj\u00f6stedt (bass)<br \/>\nNiklas Hansson (drums)<br \/>\nErik Lantz (percussion)<\/p>\n<p>All vocals on the record were performed by Timo Kumpum\u00e4ki and Dennis Westerberg, while drums and percussion was handled by Adam Janzi.<\/p>\n<p>A music video was released for the track \u2018Caged\u2019, which can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gb8_QGCqEgk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"625\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DhngaNGCwFM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILL THE KONG Release Self-Titled Debut Studio Album February 29th, 2016 V\u00e4ster\u00e5s, Sweden-based metalcore band Kill The Kong issued self-titled debut full-length studio album on February 29th, 2016. The album has been made available for streaming in its entirety through YouTube and can be accessed below. The outing was recorded, mixed and mastered during June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kill-the-kong-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066","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=39066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58003,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39066\/revisions\/58003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}