{"id":60797,"date":"2017-09-12T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=60797"},"modified":"2017-09-12T21:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:19:30","slug":"news-eyes-of-the-sun-sign-album-contract-with-blacklight-media-metal-blade-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-eyes-of-the-sun-sign-album-contract-with-blacklight-media-metal-blade-records\/","title":{"rendered":"EYES OF THE SUN Sign Album Contract With Blacklight Media \/ Metal Blade Records (September 12th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>EYES OF THE SUN Sign Album Contract With Blacklight Media \/ Metal Blade Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>September 12th, 2017<\/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\/09\/eyesofthesun2017promophoto1news.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>Brooklyn, New York-based doom metal trio Eyes Of The Sun have signed an album contract with Blacklight Media \/ Metal Blade Records, revealing this development on September 12th, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Eyes Of The Sun issued the following statement: \u201cThis is the absolute highlight of our journey and we look forward to the days ahead. We are extremely proud to be part of the Blacklight Media \/ Metal Blade family and its history. This is a testament to the support of our friends, family and fans that have been with of us throughout the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blacklight Media founder Chris Santos shared the following words, meanwhile: \u201cThe beauty of Blacklight Media, for me, is that I get to work with bands from so many different genres of metal, and am so psyched to be building such a diverse and uniquely different roster of amazing metal bands. On that note, I\u2019m super stoked to be working with my friends Eyes Of The Sun from right here in Brooklyn, who are a crushingly heavy, wall-shaking earthquake of heavy doom with a live sound that has to be heard to be believed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eyes Of The Sun\u2019s line-up is as follows;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Blanchard (vocals and bass)<br \/>\nMiguel De Jesus Jr. (guitars)<br \/>\nChris O\u2019Neil (drums)<\/p>\n<p>Eyes Of The Sun\u2019s second full-length studio album is slated for 2018 issue.<\/p>\n<p>Debut studio record <em>Chapter I<\/em> was independently released in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><em>Promotional photograph by Sophy Holland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EYES OF THE SUN Sign Album Contract With Blacklight Media \/ Metal Blade Records September 12th, 2017 Brooklyn, New York-based doom metal trio Eyes Of The Sun have signed an album contract with Blacklight Media \/ Metal Blade Records, revealing this development on September 12th, 2017. Eyes Of The Sun issued the following statement: \u201cThis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3633],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes-of-the-sun-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797","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=60797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60825,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797\/revisions\/60825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}