{"id":69646,"date":"2018-06-04T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=69646"},"modified":"2018-06-04T19:32:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T19:32:55","slug":"news-the-heard-sign-album-contract-with-despotz-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-the-heard-sign-album-contract-with-despotz-records\/","title":{"rendered":"THE HEARD Sign Album Contract With Despotz Records (June 4th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>THE HEARD Sign Album Contract With Despotz Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>June 4th, 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\/06\/theheard2017promophotonews.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 rock group The Heard have signed an album contract with Despotz Records, revealing this development on June 4th, 2018. <\/p>\n<p>The Heard commented: \u201cWe look forward to finally present our music, vision and magical world to you. Therefore we\u2019ve attached our guitar strings and laid our heavy tunes in the hands of Swedish label Despotz records. Based on experience we are convinced that Despotz will make that happen, and we look forward to a productive collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anna Rolander of Despotz added: \u201cAfter working with some of the members of The Heard before with Crucified Barbara, we\u2019ve had our eyes on this project since the first rumours about a new band came out. Now we\u2019re happy to finally announce that we\u2019ll be working together with The Heard and their inspiring concept. Together we\u2019ll work with The Heard through Despotz international distribution and PR network globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Heard\u2019s line-up is as follows;<\/p>\n<p>Pepper Potemkin (vocals)<br \/>\nKlara \u2018Force\u2019 R\u00f6nnqvist Fors (guitars, ex-Crucified Barbara)<br \/>\nJonas \u2018Skinny Disco\u2019 Kangur (lead guitars, Deathstars)<br \/>\nIda \u2018Evileye\u2019 Stenbacka (bass, ex-Crucified Barbara)<br \/>\nJannicke \u2018Nikki Wicked\u2019 Lindstr\u00f6m (drums, ex-Crucified Barbara)<\/p>\n<p>The Heard was formed following the disbandment of Crucified Barbara, three of its bandmates wishing to keep playing music together. The band are currently in the studio, recording material.<\/p>\n<p>First single \u2018White Lightning\u2019 and second single \u2018Sirens\u2019 were digitally released in December 2017 and March 2018 respectively, both via GMR Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE HEARD Sign Album Contract With Despotz Records June 4th, 2018 Stockholm, Sweden-based rock group The Heard have signed an album contract with Despotz Records, revealing this development on June 4th, 2018. The Heard commented: \u201cWe look forward to finally present our music, vision and magical world to you. Therefore we\u2019ve attached our guitar strings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-heard-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69646","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=69646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69664,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69646\/revisions\/69664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}