{"id":21245,"date":"2024-03-01T18:55:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21245"},"modified":"2024-03-01T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T18:55:23","slug":"fires-eighth-album-testament-out-today-listen-to-opener-work-song-for-a-scattered-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=21245","title":{"rendered":"Fire!&#8217;s eighth album, <em>Testament<\/em>, out today; listen to opener &#8216;Work Song For A Scattered Past&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_21247\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21247\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21247\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fire-by-Johan-Bergmark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Johan Bergmark<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today sees the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/earthwindand.com\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire!<\/a>&#8216;s much anticipated eighth album, <em>Testament<\/em>, through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runegrammofon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rune Grammofon<\/a>. More stripped down than previous records, on the new album the Swedish supergroup of reeds player Mats Gustafsson, bass player Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werliin ditched flutes and electronics, it&#8217;s just them live in the studio recording on analogue tape with the help of Steve Albini. As the press release describes, &#8220;this album stands as a true testament to the group\u00b4s expressive power and glowing intimacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a taste of what Fire! have in store for us, listen to the opening track &#8216;Work Song For A Scattered Past&#8217; below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2859209502\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3003208091\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firesweden.bandcamp.com\/album\/testament\">Testament de Fire!<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today sees the release of Fire!&#8216;s much anticipated eighth album, Testament, through\u00a0Rune Grammofon. More stripped down than previous records, on the new album the Swedish supergroup of reeds player Mats Gustafsson, bass player Johan Berthling and drummer Andreas Werliin ditched flutes and electronics, it&#8217;s just them live in the studio recording on analogue tape with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2513],"class_list":["post-21245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-fire"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21250,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21245\/revisions\/21250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}