{"id":69872,"date":"2018-06-11T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=69872"},"modified":"2018-06-11T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T19:41:45","slug":"news-abbath-bassist-king-ov-hell-leaves-due-to-conflicting-views-on-lyrical-concepts-of-second-studio-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-abbath-bassist-king-ov-hell-leaves-due-to-conflicting-views-on-lyrical-concepts-of-second-studio-album\/","title":{"rendered":"ABBATH: Bassist King Ov Hell Leaves Due To &#8216;Conflicting Views On Lyrical Concepts\u2019 Of Forthcoming Album (June 11th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>ABBATH: Bassist King Ov Hell Leaves Due To &#8216;Conflicting Views On Lyrical Concepts\u2019 Of Forthcoming Album<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>June 11th, 2018<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/abbath_kingovhell2015promophotonews.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>King Ov Hell<\/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=\"10\" 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=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nNorwegian metal group Abbath have parted ways with bassist King Ov Hell (real name: Tom Cato Visnes) following a three-year tenure, the development being revealed on June 11th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>An official statement read: \u201cKing will no longer be part of Abbath due to conflicting views on lyrical concepts of the upcoming album. The lyrics are inspired by Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung. King finds that Jung\u2019s connection to Christian mysticism is incompatible with the image of the band.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King Ov Hell commented: \u201cI wish members of the actual band, label, and crew all the best for the upcoming shows and album. The music itself is nothing short of brilliant. However, I must maintain artistic integrity and respectfully step aside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbath are in the process of working on a second full-length studio album, as referenced.<\/p>\n<p>King Ov Hell was part of Abbath since their formation, which was <a href=\"\/site\/news-abbath-retires-immortal-and-forms-namesake-group\/\">announced<\/a> on March 26th, 2015. Abbath&#8217;s inaugural line-up was <a href=\"\/site\/news-abbath-sign-with-season-of-mist-and-reveal-inaugural-lineup\/\">revealed<\/a> a month later, on April 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>A self-titled debut studio record was <a href=\"\/site\/news-abbath-release-self-titled-debut-album\/\">released<\/a> in January 2016 via Season Of Mist.<\/p>\n<p><em>Promotional photograph by Ester Segarra.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABBATH: Bassist King Ov Hell Leaves Due To &#8216;Conflicting Views On Lyrical Concepts\u2019 Of Forthcoming Album June 11th, 2018 King Ov Hell Norwegian metal group Abbath have parted ways with bassist King Ov Hell (real name: Tom Cato Visnes) following a three-year tenure, the development being revealed on June 11th, 2018. An official statement read: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1850],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abbath-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69872","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=69872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69893,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69872\/revisions\/69893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}