{"id":20874,"date":"2019-12-10T00:50:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T07:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=20874"},"modified":"2024-10-16T07:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T14:58:25","slug":"happy-birthday-messiah-marcolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/happy-birthday-messiah-marcolin\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Messiah Marcolin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/al_case\/48637370198\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Amon Amarth @ 2017 Gefle Metal Festival with Messiah Marcolin of Candlemass\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/48637370198_180d0a3fdc_b.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"533\" alt=\"Amon Amarth @ 2017 Gefle Metal Festival with Messiah Marcolin of Candlemass\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Having been a fan of Candlemass since the late 1980s, I was a bit disappointed to see them for the first time (at Copenhell in 2017) without Messiah Marcolin. I know, Messiah wasn&#8217;t the lead singer on their most famous album, but he still was Candlemass in my mind. A few weeks later I was shocked to finally get to see Messiah, as a one-off surprise with Amon Amarth at Gefle Metal Festival. They performed Hel off of &#8220;Deceiver of the Gods&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The magic didn&#8217;t stop there. A couple days later I was offered a ride to Stockholm by Johan Hegg&#8217;s former girlfriend, and a couple years later I stood next to Johan during Dark Tranquillity&#8217;s set at Gefle Metal Festival.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no Gefle Metal Festival for me in 2020 as the days conflict with the Metal Magic Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been a fan of Candlemass since the late 1980s, I was a bit disappointed to see them for the first time (at Copenhell in 2017) without Messiah Marcolin. I know, Messiah wasn&#8217;t the lead singer on their most famous album, but he still was Candlemass in my mind. A few weeks later I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[541,324,861,413,654,134,539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20874"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30289,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20874\/revisions\/30289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}