{"id":2007,"date":"2015-10-07T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2024-05-08T06:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T06:25:22","slug":"hear-this-immolation-at-oakland-metro-opera-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"Hear This: Immolation at Oakland Metro Opera House"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/sfweekly.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/8\/55\/85555713-1428-57f7-8713-27992395938e\/63b873ee42c68.image.jpg\" alt=\"hearthis2-immolation-courtesy_of_nuclear_blast_records-7c6a38a66d849b45\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Immolation may just be the scariest-sounding band to ever pick up instruments. Only a few other groups can match the ferocious death-metal assault and utter disgust for organized religion displayed on its 1991 debut\u00a0<em>Dawn of Possession<\/em>. On stage, singer\/bassist Russ Dolan&#8217;s long mane swirls at break-neck speeds while he looks and sounds like he&#8217;s going to rip out your liver and feed it to one of his pet wolves. Guitarist Bob Vigna not-so-coincidentally resembles Church Of Satan&#8217;s founder Anton LaVey and plays guitar as if he is both simultaneously stabbing his adoring fans and casting an ancient spell.\u00a0<em>Kingdom Of Conspiracy<\/em>\u00a0(2013), the band&#8217;s latest offering, sounds as if the apocalypse is right around the corner. Looking for the soundtrack for the end times? Immolation will deliver it with glee. It&#8217;s time to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SF Weekly)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immolation may just be the scariest-sounding band to ever pick up instruments. Only a few other groups can match the ferocious death-metal assault and utter disgust for organized religion displayed on its 1991 debut\u00a0Dawn of Possession. On stage, singer\/bassist Russ Dolan&#8217;s long mane swirls at break-neck speeds while he looks and sounds like he&#8217;s going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}