{"id":82363,"date":"2020-03-11T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=82363"},"modified":"2020-08-20T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T16:37:45","slug":"news-violence-sign-worldwide-album-contract-with-metal-blade-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-violence-sign-worldwide-album-contract-with-metal-blade-records\/","title":{"rendered":"VIO-LENCE Sign Worldwide Deal With Metal Blade Records (March 11th, 2020) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>VIO-LENCE Sign Worldwide Deal With Metal Blade Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>March 11th, 2020<\/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\/2020\/03\/violence2020promophoto1news.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>San Francisco, California-based thrash metal band Vio-lence have signed a worldwide contract with Metal Blade Records, confirming this development on March 11th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Sean Killian commented: \u201cMy first real exposure to thrash metal was brought to me by Metal Blade Records in the form of <a href=\"\/site\/slayer-articles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slayer<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"\/site\/album-review-slayer-show-no-mercy\/\"><em>Show No Mercy<\/em><\/a>, which turned into my first live thrash metal show when I saw Slayer at The Keystone [in] Berkley. Today, being able to announce that Vio-Lence has signed an agreement to bring new music to thrash metal fans and future thrash metal fans around the world with our partners Metal Blade Records is a very proud moment for me and Vio-Lence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMetal Blade has been involved in thrash metal since the beginning with their compilation <em>Metal Massacre<\/em> [1982], and they have stood the test of time because of their love for heavy music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you everyone at Metal Blade Records for believing in Vio-Lence and for being fans of the music I love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vio-Lence\u2019s line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Sean Killian (vocals)<br \/>\nPhil Demmel (guitar, ex-Torque \/ ex-Machine Head)<br \/>\nDeen Dell (bass, ex-Torque)<br \/>\nPerry Strickland (drums)<br \/>\nBobby Gustafson (live guitar, Satans Taint \/ ex-Overkill)<\/p>\n<p>Third studio record <em>Nothing to Gain<\/em> was released in November 1993 via Bleeding Hearts Records.<\/p>\n<p><em>Promotional photograph by James Willard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIO-LENCE Sign Worldwide Deal With Metal Blade Records March 11th, 2020 San Francisco, California-based thrash metal band Vio-lence have signed a worldwide contract with Metal Blade Records, confirming this development on March 11th, 2020. Vocalist Sean Killian commented: \u201cMy first real exposure to thrash metal was brought to me by Metal Blade Records in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vio-lence-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82363","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=82363"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85630,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82363\/revisions\/85630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}