{"id":12978,"date":"2020-05-02T10:32:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T10:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=12978"},"modified":"2020-05-02T10:32:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T10:32:18","slug":"firewinds-welcome-to-the-empire-music-video-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2020\/05\/02\/firewinds-welcome-to-the-empire-music-video-released\/","title":{"rendered":"FIREWIND&#8217;s Welcome To The Empire music video released!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Power Metal icons\u00a0<strong>FIREWIND<\/strong>\u00a0proudly present their new\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afm-records.de\/index.php?subid=19677&amp;option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=1634&amp;mailid=361\">music video\/single, \u201eWelcome To The Empire\u201c.<\/a>\u00a0The song marks the second single taken from the upcoming album\u00a0<strong>\u201eFirewind\u201c<\/strong>\u00a0(out\u00a0<strong>May 15th<\/strong>).<br>The\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afm-records.de\/index.php?subid=19677&amp;option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=1634&amp;mailid=361\">video clip<\/a>\u00a0was directed by Panagiotis Kountouras, VFX and post production done by Media Distribution Partners.<br>\u00a0<br>Guitarist Gus G. states:\u00a0<em>&#8220;Welcome To The Empire&#8221; is the opening track of the album and an obvious choice for a single. Making the video was an ongoing work in progress as we filmed the band\u00a0performance back in January. However, we wanted to blend in futuristic visual effects for the story and as I&#8217;m a huge sci-fi movie fan, I wanted to\u00a0incorporate something along those lines. Our director Panagiotis Kountouras came up with the concept and we collaborated with MDP, a\u00a0vfx company out of Hollywood, CA. The story is\u00a0set in a dystopia, where humanity has been surrendered to the New World Order.\u00a0Two cyborgs are playing with the future of mankind in a chess game. Each move has consequences and technology will be the only winner. It was a really challenging production, but we love the end result. We hope you will too!\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FIREWIND just recently announced their new line-up, which now features Herbie Langhans (Avantasia) on vocals. The new album\u2019s first single \u201eRising Fire\u201c (which dropped on March 20th) proved to be the perfect introduction for the new line-up as it was met with critical acclaim and got the fans excited for things to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201eFirewind\u201c will be released on May 15th (available as Digipak, ltd. colored Vinyl,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afm-records.de\/index.php?subid=19677&amp;option=com_acymailing&amp;ctrl=url&amp;urlid=1635&amp;mailid=361\">ltd. t-shirt+Digipak\/Vinyl bundles<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Metal icons\u00a0FIREWIND\u00a0proudly present their new\u00a0music video\/single, \u201eWelcome To The Empire\u201c.\u00a0The song marks the second&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2],"tags":[493,683],"class_list":["post-12978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-news","category-news","tag-firewind","tag-gus-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12978","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=12978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12980,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12978\/revisions\/12980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}