{"id":52477,"date":"2017-02-11T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=52477"},"modified":"2017-02-12T00:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T00:07:39","slug":"news-civil-war-recruit-former-firewind-touring-vocalist-kelly-sundown-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-civil-war-recruit-former-firewind-touring-vocalist-kelly-sundown-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"CIVIL WAR Recruit Former FIREWIND Touring Vocalist Kelly Sundown Carpenter (February 11th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>CIVIL WAR Recruit Former FIREWIND Touring Vocalist Kelly Sundown Carpenter<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>February 11th, 2017<\/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 \/>\nSwedish heavy metal group Civil War have recruited former Firewind vocalist Kelly Sundown Carpenter, revealing this development on February 9th, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Civil War issued the following statement: \u201cWe proudly present Kelly Sundown as the new voice of Civil War! He\u2019s known for his work with Adagio, Beyond Twilight, Darkology, Epysode, Outworld, Zierler and touring singer for Firewind, (and) he brings experience and huge talent into our ranks.<\/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=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/civalwar_kellysundownphotonews.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Kelly Sundown<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\">\u201cWe are very happy to say that we found just the right person and powerful voice we\u2019ve been looking for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp us give the warmest welcome to Kelly. We are all very excited to write a new chapter in Civil War\u2019s history together!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Civil War\u2019s line-up is as follows;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly Sundown Carpenter (vocals)<br \/>\nRikard Sund\u00e9n (guitars)<br \/>\nPetrus Granar (guitars)<br \/>\nDaniel Mullback (drums)<br \/>\nDaniel Myhrer (keyboards)<\/p>\n<p>The departure of vocalist Patrik Johansson following a four-year tenure was <a href=\"\/site\/news-civil-war-part-ways-with-vocalist-patrik-johansson\/\">revealed<\/a> on December 22nd, 2016, Johansson having been the band\u2019s frontman since their 2012 inception up until that point.<\/p>\n<p>Third studio record <em>The Last Full Measure<\/em> was <a href=\"\/site\/news-civil-war-release-third-studio-album-the-last-full-measure\/\">released<\/a> in November 2016 via Napalm Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIVIL WAR Recruit Former FIREWIND Touring Vocalist Kelly Sundown Carpenter February 11th, 2017 Swedish heavy metal group Civil War have recruited former Firewind vocalist Kelly Sundown Carpenter, revealing this development on February 9th, 2017. Civil War issued the following statement: \u201cWe proudly present Kelly Sundown as the new voice of Civil War! He\u2019s known for [&hellip;]<\/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-52477","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\/52477","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=52477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52487,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52477\/revisions\/52487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}