{"id":51077,"date":"2016-12-22T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=51077"},"modified":"2016-12-25T01:46:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T01:46:04","slug":"news-civil-war-part-ways-with-vocalist-patrik-johansson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-civil-war-part-ways-with-vocalist-patrik-johansson\/","title":{"rendered":"CIVIL WAR Part Ways With Vocalist Patrik Johansson (December 22nd, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CIVIL WAR Part Ways With Vocalist Patrik Johansson<\/strong><\/span>
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\nSwedish heavy metal group Civil War have parted ways with vocalist Patrik Johansson following a four-year tenure, revealing this development on December 22nd, 2016.<\/p>\n

Patrik Johansson issued the following statement: \u201cOkay, to avoid misunderstandings: I have left Civil War. They need to tour more and I am not the guy for that due to my work and family situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have given them some of my best songs and almost five years of my life. I love them, but all things have an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wish that they can get a new singer that can carry on my legacy and the spirit of Civil War.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf no new singer can be found in time, I will, of course, do the booked shows if they want.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will now focus on Astral Doors and perhaps more important to make a follow-up to Lion\u2019s Share\u2019s epic Dark Hours<\/em> (2009)!!\u201d<\/p>\n

Civil War shared the following words, meanwhile: \u201cAs some of you probably already noticed, our vocalist Patrik suddenly left the band without any further notice. It came as a really big surprise to us all.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just had a meeting and we came to the conclusion that Civil War will go on, and all planned gigs and festivals will be done as planned!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll take the holidays now to let all this sink in and then we\u2019ll start the hunt for a new singer after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johansson was vocalist for Civil War since their 2012 inception, following the departures of Rikard Sund\u00e9n (guitar), Daniel Mullback (drums) and Daniel M\u00ffhr (keyboards) from Sabaton.<\/p>\n

The frontman appeared on one EP and three full-lengths in all, namely; the Civil War<\/em> EP (2012), The Killer Angels<\/em> (2013), Gods And Generals<\/em> (2015), and The Last Full Measure<\/em> (2016). The titles of the three studio propers in question were taken from a novel trilogy about the American Civil War written by Michael and Jeff Shaara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CIVIL WAR Part Ways With Vocalist Patrik Johansson December 22nd, 2016 Patrik Johansson Swedish heavy metal group Civil War have parted ways with vocalist Patrik Johansson following a four-year tenure, revealing this development on December 22nd, 2016. Patrik Johansson issued the following statement: \u201cOkay, to avoid misunderstandings: I have left Civil War. They need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1810],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51077","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=51077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51159,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51077\/revisions\/51159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}