{"id":11736,"date":"2019-08-06T19:37:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=11736"},"modified":"2019-08-06T19:38:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T19:38:23","slug":"metal-band-national-wrecking-company-releases-debut-album-featuring-final-recording-of-guitar-legend-bernie-torme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2019\/08\/06\/metal-band-national-wrecking-company-releases-debut-album-featuring-final-recording-of-guitar-legend-bernie-torme\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Band National Wrecking Company Releases Debut Album Featuring Final Recording of Guitar Legend Bernie Torme!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Wrecking Company featuring members of&nbsp; The Lizards, Cactus, Humble Pie &amp; The Plasmatics are releasing their highly anticipated debut album. The new release features one of the final recordings by guitar legend Bernie Torme, best known for his work with the Ian Gillan Band and Ozzy Osbourne, who passed away this year. The song is a bonus preview track from the upcoming National Wrecking Company II release \u201cOverture\/Mechanized Confusion.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/National-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11738\" width=\"241\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/National-1.jpg 481w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/National-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/skylight.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/National-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>A heavy diverse discourse on the current state of politics, war, religion and greed. The view from our vantage point of a global catastrophic claustrophobic dystopia.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><br> We&#8217;ve included this ultra special bonus preview title track of National Wrecking Company II:(Overture\/ \u201cMechanized Confusion\u201d). In dedication to and featuring Bernie\u2019s simply stunningly artful fretwork.<br> God bless Bernie Torm\u00e9, a true gentleman and a monumental talent.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#039;STAR&#039; - Bernie Torme &amp; Electric Gypsies Original Promo 1982\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CnLi9E5Z4p8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Bernie Torme in 1982!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br> All songs were written on bass first, then arranged by JZ Barrell. He also produced, recorded, mixed and mastered the album. The band features 2 guitarists; 23 year old shred prodigy Jesse Berlin and&nbsp; Phil Bader, a 60 something finger stylist in the vein of&nbsp; Beck and Knopfler. The bass is handled by Randy Pratt, best known for his work with The Lizards and harpist for classic rock legends Cactus! The drummer TC Tolliver is best known for his work with Wendy O Williams &amp; The Plasmatics! Drums are also handled by Neil Cicione. Jimmy Kunes is featured on lead and backing vocals and Scott \u201cThe Doctor\u201d Treibitz on keyboards.Together the National Wrecking Company crank out some weird and extreme metal!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Hyperspace Records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Wrecking Company featuring members of&nbsp; The Lizards, Cactus, Humble Pie &amp; The Plasmatics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11741,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11736\/revisions\/11741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}