{"id":12489,"date":"2020-01-31T07:19:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T07:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=12489"},"modified":"2020-01-31T07:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T07:19:33","slug":"imonolith-debut-album-state-of-being-will-be-relased-on-march-27th-guest-features-include-jens-kidman-meshuggah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/01\/31\/imonolith-debut-album-state-of-being-will-be-relased-on-march-27th-guest-features-include-jens-kidman-meshuggah\/","title":{"rendered":"IMONOLITH Debut album, State of Being will be relased on March 27th, guest features include Jens Kidman (Meshuggah)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IMONOLITH<\/strong>&nbsp;was formed in February 2018 by Drummer, Ryan \u2018RVP\u2019 Van Poederooyen (<strong>Devin Townsend Project\/Band<\/strong>) and Guitarist, Brian Waddell (<strong>Devin Townsend Project\/ Band<\/strong>). The pair originally started writing&nbsp;<strong>Imonolith\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;brand of music in 2015, while respectively playing in the Devin Townsend Project (2009-2018). \u2018RVP\u2019 and Waddell pursued Vocalist \u2013 Jon Howard (<strong>Threat Signal, Arkaea<\/strong>) and 2nd Guitarist \u2013 Kai Huppunen (<strong>Methods of Mayhem, Noise Therapy<\/strong>) and lastly Bassist \u2013 Scott Whalen (<strong>Econoline Crush<\/strong>), to complete the band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><strong><em>State of Being<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;features 10 hook-laden, riff-heavy tracks including&nbsp;<strong><em><strong><em>\u201cHollow,\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;the debut single that made big waves for&nbsp;<strong>IMONOLITH<\/strong>&nbsp;straight out of the gate, racking up 216K Spotify streams in 2019. There are also two very special guest performances from Jens Kidman (<strong>Meshuggah<\/strong>) and Swedish vocalist Johannes Eckerstr\u00f6m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having spent much of 2019 writing, arranging, recording and fine-tuning&nbsp;<strong><em><strong><em>State of Being<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>, the band worked incredibly hard to achieve their goal &#8211; to make an engaging heavy metal album.&nbsp;&nbsp;The high production video to&nbsp;<strong><em><strong><em>\u201cInstinct\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;is not only a great example of the band\u2019s quality aesthetic, but it also serves as a look at&nbsp;<strong>IMONOLITH\u2019s<\/strong>&nbsp;collective personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IMONOLITH<\/strong>&nbsp;will be touring globally for the next two years and have announced their first ever UK\/EU headline dates, commencing on March 27 in Sheffield, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IMONOLITH online:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imonolithband.com\">http:\/\/imonolithband.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/imonolithband\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/imonolithband\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/imonolithband\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMONOLITH&nbsp;was formed in February 2018 by Drummer, Ryan \u2018RVP\u2019 Van Poederooyen (Devin Townsend Project\/Band) and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12489","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\/12489","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=12489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12491,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12489\/revisions\/12491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}