{"id":58732,"date":"2017-07-14T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=58732"},"modified":"2017-07-15T17:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T17:59:03","slug":"news-xentrix-recruit-bull-riff-stampede-guitarist-jay-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-xentrix-recruit-bull-riff-stampede-guitarist-jay-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"XENTRIX Recruit BULL-RIFF STAMPEDE Guitarist Jay Walsh (July 14th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

XENTRIX Recruit BULL-RIFF STAMPEDE Guitarist Jay Walsh<\/strong><\/span>
\nJuly 14th, 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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North-west England-based thrash metal group Xentrix have recruited Bull-Riff Stampede and ex-Blaze Bayley guitarist Jay Walsh, revealing this development on July 14th, 2017.<\/p>\n

Walsh will also perform lead vocal duties, replacing Xentrix singer \/ guitarist Chris Astley who quit the band at the end of 2015.<\/p>\n

The band issued the following statement via their Facebook page: \u201cWe\u2019re Back! It\u2019s been a while since we posted any Xentrix news, and to be totally honest, this has been down to the fact that we weren\u2019t sure if there would be anymore news or even anymore Xentrix.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of 2015 Chris Astley, our singer \/ guitarist had decided he didn\u2019t want to be a part of Xentrix or any other band for that matter, and so once again he was out of the line-up. This left us (the remaining three members) with the option to call it a day or try and find a replacement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew full well that the vocals are always the most difficult thing for any band to replace, but we wanted to carry on doing shows and making new metal music, so we set out on the arduous task of finding a new vocalist for the band. For the past 18 months we\u2019ve been trying to find that right person and it has been incredibly frustrating how many times we thought we had found the new addition to our line-up only to discover, for one reason or another, it wasn\u2019t to be. We\u2019d like to thank everyone that auditioned and demoed for us, we experienced some great voices and really cool people.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut after a chance meeting at last years Bloodstock Festival we found the right man for the job and so Xentrix would like to welcome Mr. Jay Walsh (Bull-Riff Stampede) as our new singer \/ guitarist. We\u2019re super excited to have Jay on board and have already started writing and demoing new material. Most importantly, we can\u2019t wait to get back to doing what we love the most, playing live!\u201d<\/p>\n

Xentrix\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n

Jay Walsh (vocals and guitar, Bull-Riff Stampede \/ ex-Fourwaykill \/ ex-Blaze Bayley)
\nKristian Havard (guitar, Hellfighter)
\nChris Shires (bass, Hellfighter)
\nDennis Gasser (drums, Hellfighter)<\/p>\n

Fourth Xentrix studio record Scourge<\/em> was released in 1996 via Heavy Metal Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

XENTRIX Recruit BULL-RIFF STAMPEDE Guitarist Jay Walsh July 14th, 2017 North-west England-based thrash metal group Xentrix have recruited Bull-Riff Stampede and ex-Blaze Bayley guitarist Jay Walsh, revealing this development on July 14th, 2017. Walsh will also perform lead vocal duties, replacing Xentrix singer \/ guitarist Chris Astley who quit the band at the end of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3561,2297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bull-riff-stampede-news","category-xentrix-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58732","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=58732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58736,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58732\/revisions\/58736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}