{"id":12159,"date":"2014-02-27T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/cdtheforsaken_dick\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T08:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T08:00:06","slug":"cdtheforsaken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdtheforsaken\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Forsaken"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/forsaken.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20992\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/forsaken.jpg\" alt=\"forsaken\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Forsaken<br \/>\n&#8220;Arts of Desolation&#8221;<br \/>\n(Century Media)<\/h4>\n<p>This is an excellent technically efficient death metal album with high marks for production values and cover art. \u00a0The guitars perform a dual blistering &#8220;stereo-phonic&#8221; attack, which is greatly appreciated in this age of standardized mono. \u00a0It&#8217;s also nice to see a death metal band in 2002 releasing their album on CD (compact disc) after this long wave of eight-track releases. \u00a0Finally, the record companies have wised up. \u00a0Eight tracks simply are not the appropriate format for death metal. \u00a0That kind of shit might fly for Brittany Spears&#8217; fans, but who wants to be smack dab in the middle of rocking out to Deicide&#8217;s first album and half way through &#8220;Carnage in the Temple of the Damned&#8221; the song stops, one hears the chunk of the reel switching tracks and then the song resumes? \u00a0This album by the Forsaken is bound to start a new trend in the way music is recorded and distributed in the new millennium. \u00a0I hope other labels catch on to (Century Media&#8217;s) paradigm shifting innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forsaken &#8220;Arts of Desolation&#8221; (Century Media) This is an excellent technically efficient death metal album with high marks for production values and cover art. \u00a0The guitars perform a dual blistering &#8220;stereo-phonic&#8221; attack, which is greatly appreciated in this age of standardized mono. \u00a0It&#8217;s also nice to see a death metal band in 2002 releasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[1353,7371],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}