{"id":65014,"date":"2018-01-10T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=65014"},"modified":"2018-01-10T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T17:13:55","slug":"news-lik-sign-album-contract-with-metal-blade-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-lik-sign-album-contract-with-metal-blade-records\/","title":{"rendered":"LIK Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records (January 10th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>LIK Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>January 10th, 2018<\/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\/2018\/01\/lik2018promophoto1news.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>Stockholm, Sweden-based death metal band Lik have signed an album contract with Metal Blade Records, confirming this development on January 10th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The band issued the following statement: \u201cThe huge impact Metal Blade has had on the scene is something you can\u2019t overlook, and being a part of this family is a \u2018pinch yourself to see if you\u2019re dreaming\u2019 scenario! We can&#8217;t stress enough about how psyched we are and it\u2019s just another sign that no frills death metal is still alive and breathing!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lik will <a href=\"\/site\/news-lik-release-second-studio-album-carnage\/\">release<\/a> their second full-length studio album <em>Carnage<\/em> on May 4th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Lik\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Tomas \u00c5kvik (lead vocals and guitar, Nale)<br \/>\nNiklas \u201cNille\u201d Sandin (guitar and bass, Katatonia)<br \/>\nChris Barkensj\u00f6 (drums and backing vocals, Witchery \/ ex-Serpent Obscene \/ ex-The Resistance)<\/p>\n<p>Debut studio record <em>Mass Funeral Evocation<\/em> was released in October 2015 via War Anthem Records.<\/p>\n<p><em>Promotional photograph by Michaela Barkensj\u00f6.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIK Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records January 10th, 2018 Stockholm, Sweden-based death metal band Lik have signed an album contract with Metal Blade Records, confirming this development on January 10th, 2018. The band issued the following statement: \u201cThe huge impact Metal Blade has had on the scene is something you can\u2019t overlook, 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":[3812],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lik-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65014","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=65014"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65024,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65014\/revisions\/65024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}