{"id":5904,"date":"2016-03-09T13:02:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/ex-shotgun-messiah-band-releases-a-live-album\/"},"modified":"2016-03-09T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T13:02:27","slug":"ex-shotgun-messiah-band-releases-a-live-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/ex-shotgun-messiah-band-releases-a-live-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-SHOTGUN MESSIAH band releases a live album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/1de7ea4683ee13b5e90bc2d8c\/images\/c4904d12-0083-493d-9b67-9efd95bd0944.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"216\" height=\"216\" \/><br \/>Swedish hard rockers\u00a0SHOTGUN\u00a0will release their new live album &#8220;Live &#8211; Down Decadencia Drive&#8221; on\u00a0May 7\u00a0through\u00a0Livewire\/Cargo Records. A rocking new half breed of the original\u00a0SHOTGUN MESSIAH\u00a0is now releasing an in your face live album with all the songs from\u00a0Shotgun Messiah\u2019s highly acclaimed first album.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Is  the result of this collaboration and a damn good live album that  captures the nerve, the riffs, the attitude \u2013 and that  straight-in-your-face-style that once was the trademark of\u00a0SHOTGUN MESSIAH.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Live &#8211; Down Decadencia Drive&#8221; track listing:<\/p>\n<p> 1.\u00a0Squeezin Teazin<br \/> 2.\u00a0I&#8217;m Your Love<br \/> 3.\u00a0Bop City<br \/> 4.\u00a0Nowhere Fast<br \/> 5.\u00a0Dirt Talk<br \/> 6.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/rockngrowl.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1de7ea4683ee13b5e90bc2d8c&amp;id=cf768aae09&amp;e=77eae45467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nervous<\/a><br \/> 7.\u00a0Shout It Out<br \/> 8.\u00a0Don&#8217;t Care Bout Nothin&#8217;<\/p>\n<p> The album was mixed by\u00a0Chris Laney\u00a0at\u00a0LaneyLand\u00a0and mastered by\u00a0Classe Persson\u00a0at\u00a0CRP Recordings.<\/p>\n<p> SHOTGUN\u00a0are:<\/p>\n<p> ZINNY J. ZAN\u00a0&#8211; Vocals<br \/> STIXX\u00a0&#8211; Drums<br \/> ROB MARCELLO\u00a0&#8211; Guitars<br \/> CHRIS LANEY\u00a0&#8211; Bass<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SHOTGUN MESSIAH\u00a0was the pioneers of the glam and sleaze era back in the\u00a080\u2019s\u00a0and one of the first acts to come out of\u00a0Sweden\u00a0to relocate to the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and  actually hit the charts and make a name for themselves. With extensive  tours, press,\u00a0radio and TV covering the entire U.S. under the belt for  some years,\u00a0SHOTGUN MESSIAH\u00a0was worn out in 1993 and decided to\u00a0call it quits.<\/p>\n<p> Later in the\u00a090\u2019s\u00a0you could find the former members in bands like\u00a0MARILYN MANSON,\u00a0TOM WAITS\u00a0and\u00a0ZAN CLAN.<\/p>\n<p> Over the years some of the members in former\u00a0SHOTGUN MESSIAH\u00a0has been made aware by their fans that they never got to\u00a0play their songs live for their supporters in\u00a0Europe,\u00a0Latin America\u00a0or\u00a0Asia.<\/p>\n<p> Now\u00a025 years\u00a0after the release of their first album, two of the band\u2019s biggest supporters contacted singer\u00a0ZINNY J. ZAN\u00a0and drummer\u00a0STIXX\u00a0in  order for them to consider a reunion and actually get the opportunity  to play these songs for one\u00a0last tour. An opportunity for the supporters  that once missed out to hear the songs live \u2013 but also for it to  be\u00a0captured and released as a live album.<\/p>\n<p> THE CATCH, YOU SAY?\u00a0These  two hardcore supporters wanted to see the original line-up reform.  Since that was a definite\u00a0no-go they gladly volunteered to fill the two  missing slots. The two\u00a0fanboys\u00a0happened to be none other than\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/rockngrowl.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1de7ea4683ee13b5e90bc2d8c&amp;id=513f2e0da7&amp;e=77eae45467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.shotgun-messiah.se<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish hard rockers\u00a0SHOTGUN\u00a0will release their new live album &#8220;Live &#8211; Down Decadencia Drive&#8221; on\u00a0May 7\u00a0through\u00a0Livewire\/Cargo&#8230;<\/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-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","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=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}