{"id":902,"date":"2010-10-01T15:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T21:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=902"},"modified":"2011-02-28T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:11:21","slug":"shining-sun-by-holy-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/shining-sun-by-holy-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining Sun by Holy Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-903\" title=\"holy-blood-shining-sun\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/holy-blood-shining-sun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/holy-blood-shining-sun.jpg 350w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/holy-blood-shining-sun-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/holy-blood-shining-sun-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Why have I not been listening to Holy Blood since day 1? This is their fourth album, but first for me to check out. I love world music. But when bands mix world music with heavy music? That sends me into the stratosphere. Holy Blood mixes traditional folk music with blistering black metal for a unique sound that makes me smile big time. By folk, I mean more Ukrainian and Celtic than Simon and Garfunkel. And I don\u2019t just mean the occasional flute intro thrown in as garnish. They use folk instruments and influences extensively throughout every song. Excellent choice \u2013 it works well for the sound they have chosen. This sound also mixes in elements of Melodic Metalcore and new school Hardcore. A truly unique and enjoyable alternative to the basic death\/grind\/black metal sound.<\/p>\n[\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff2010 Bombworks Records | Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bombworksrecords.com\" target=\"_blank\">BombworksRecords.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why have I not been listening to Holy Blood since day 1? This is their fourth album, but first for me to check out. I love world music. But when bands mix world music with heavy music? That sends me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/shining-sun-by-holy-blood\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,21],"tags":[157,160],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-review","category-october-2010","tag-bombworks-records","tag-holy-blood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}