{"id":40735,"date":"2016-03-07T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T00:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=40735"},"modified":"2016-03-07T17:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:48:44","slug":"news-riverside-guitarist-piotr-grudzinski-dies-aged-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-riverside-guitarist-piotr-grudzinski-dies-aged-40\/","title":{"rendered":"RIVERSIDE Issue Statement Regarding Death Of Guitarist Piotr Grudzi\u0144ski (March 7th, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>RIVERSIDE Issue Statement Regarding Death Of Guitarist Piotr Grudzi\u0144ski<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>March 7th, 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 \/>\nPiotr Grudzi\u0144ski, guitarist from Warsaw, Poland-based progressive rock group Riverside, died on February 21st, 2016 following a sudden cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Riverside issued the following statement: \u201cOn behalf of the family and our own we would like to thank everyone for the support and your presence in those difficult moments. Piotr passed away unexpectedly of natural causes (sudden cardiac arrest) on Sunday morning (21st February). We have remained with emptiness and open wounds which need time to heal. For obvious reasons we have decided to cancel all concerts confirmed for this year. At the same time we would like to inform you that we are going to carry out this year releases scheduled for late spring and autumn 2016. Thank you for your support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A tribute video in memoriam and published by the band can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>Piotr Grudzi\u0144ski was born on March 15th, 1975. A co-founding member of Riverside in 2001, Grudzi\u0144ski appeared on all six of the band\u2019s full-length studio albums to-date, including latest outing <em>Love, Fear And The Time Machine<\/em>, which was <a href=\"\/site\/news-riverside-release-sixth-studio-album-love-fear-and-the-time-machine\/\/\">released<\/a> on September 4th, 2015.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"1\" data-href=\"\/Riversidepl\/videos\/vb.146299235382003\/1175145455830704\/?type=3\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Riversidepl\/videos\/1175145455830704\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Riversidepl\/videos\/1175145455830704\/\">In Memoriam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kochani, \u017cegnamy Piotra w najbli\u017cszy poniedzia\u0142ek 29.02 o 14:30. Warszawa. Cmentarz Komunalny P\u00f3\u0142nocny na W\u00f3lce W\u0119glowej. ul. W\u00f3ycickiego 14.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Riversidepl\/\">Riverside<\/a> on Thursday, 25 February 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIVERSIDE Issue Statement Regarding Death Of Guitarist Piotr Grudzi\u0144ski March 7th, 2016 Piotr Grudzi\u0144ski, guitarist from Warsaw, Poland-based progressive rock group Riverside, died on February 21st, 2016 following a sudden cardiac arrest. Riverside issued the following statement: \u201cOn behalf of the family and our own we would like to thank everyone for the support 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":[2312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-riverside-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40735","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=40735"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41507,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40735\/revisions\/41507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}