{"id":1692,"date":"2012-05-23T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/23\/chris-appleton-a-martin-mcnee-of-fury-uk-announce-new-band-tour-dates-a-album-plan\/"},"modified":"2012-05-23T19:22:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T19:22:17","slug":"chris-appleton-a-martin-mcnee-of-fury-uk-announce-new-band-tour-dates-a-album-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/05\/23\/chris-appleton-a-martin-mcnee-of-fury-uk-announce-new-band-tour-dates-a-album-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRIS APPLETON & MARTIN MCNEE OF FURY UK ANNOUNCE NEW BAND, TOUR DATES & ALBUM PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"


In the wake of Fury UK completing their tour commitments this week & with bassist Luke Appleton due to join American powerhouse metallers Iced Earth in June, Chris Appleton & Martin McNee are very happy to introduce their new band….. Absolva.
Absolva is in similar vein to Fury UK, playing classic British metal but with the addition of a second lead guitarist enabling the exploration of twin lead guitar sounds inspired by the likes of Iron Maiden & Thin Lizzy. The band line-up is completed by Tom Atkinson from Manchester metalheads Vice & Dan Bate from the Midlands-based Point Blank Fury.<\/p>\n

The full line-up therefore is as follows….
Chris Appleton : lead guitar & lead vocals
Martin McNee : drums
Tom Atkinson : lead guitar & backing vocals
Dan Bate : bass guitar & backing vocals<\/p>\n

Absolva will be making a debut live performance as special guests at this year’s SOS Festival, in Radcliffe, North Manchester on 22nd July, closely followed by 3 shows in August as special guests with Iced Earth in Ireland & Scotland. Fans can expect the band’s setlist to include a small selection of familiar Fury UK songs, plus plenty of new material being prepared towards an album which is scheduled for a release late in October on Rocksector Records. The album, entitled “Flames Of Justice”, will be promoted by a widespread UK & European tour October-December & a music video. The band has additionally accepted an invitation to headline next years’ Wizzfest in Belgium, March 2013.<\/p>\n

Chris Appleton has this to say about today’s announcement.. “We’re happy & relieved to have settled the line-up so quickly. Tom Atkinson was a natural choice & already known to me as a talented lead guitarist. For the job of bassman we held auditions & Dan Bate proved to be the outstanding choice with the right skills but also a great attitude. Fury UK isn’t dead but goes on long-term hold & for me now, Absolva is the main focus. It rattled our world when we heard that Iced Earth wanted Luke but we knew how we wanted to handle things & Absolva is exactly that”<\/p>\n

Early rehearsals have made it clear that Absolva has something very special & is exceptionally placed to become the 21st century band of choice for those fans that have passionately followed the British metal giants such as Maiden & Priest.<\/p>\n

Source: Rocksector Records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the wake of Fury UK completing their tour commitments this week & with bassist…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","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=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}