{"id":70813,"date":"2018-07-18T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=70813"},"modified":"2018-07-18T15:37:49","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:37:49","slug":"news-whiplash-sign-album-contract-with-metal-blade-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-whiplash-sign-album-contract-with-metal-blade-records\/","title":{"rendered":"WHIPLASH Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records (July 18th, 2018) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>WHIPLASH Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>July 18th, 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\/07\/whiplash2018promophoto1news.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>Passaic, New Jersey-based thrash metal band Whiplash have signed an album contract with Metal Blade Records, confirming this development on July 18th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Whiplash mainman Tony Portaro commented: \u201cMy main influences were the West Coast thrash bands that Brian Slagel brought into the limelight in the early 80s. Without them attracting my attention in the first place, I never would have written <em>Power And Pain<\/em> [1986]. And the fact that Metal Blade is still promoting old school thrash and believing in me, gives me the inspiration to continue creating my East Coast style of metal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bands as-yet-untitled eighth full-length studio album is scheduled for an early 2019 release. <\/p>\n<p>Whiplash\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Tony Portaro (vocals and guitar)<br \/>\nDank DeLong (bass)<br \/>\nRon Lipnicki (drums, ex-Hades \/ ex-Overkill)<\/p>\n<p>Seventh studio record <em>Unborn Again<\/em> was released in September 2009 via Pulverised Records. <\/p>\n<p><em>Promotional photograph by DM Jones.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHIPLASH Sign Album Contract With Metal Blade Records July 18th, 2018 Passaic, New Jersey-based thrash metal band Whiplash have signed an album contract with Metal Blade Records, confirming this development on July 18th, 2018. Whiplash mainman Tony Portaro commented: \u201cMy main influences were the West Coast thrash bands that Brian Slagel brought into the limelight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whiplash-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70813","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=70813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70816,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70813\/revisions\/70816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}