{"id":1092,"date":"2012-09-14T18:38:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2012-09-14T18:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T13:10:52","slug":"the-faceless-guitarist-michael-keene-discusses-autotheism-summer-slaughter-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/09\/14\/the-faceless-guitarist-michael-keene-discusses-autotheism-summer-slaughter-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"THE FACELESS Guitarist Michael Keene Discusses &#8220;Autotheism&#8221;, Summer Slaughter (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/faceless2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1108\" title=\"faceless2\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/faceless2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/faceless2.jpg 600w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/faceless2-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/faceless2-429x300.jpg 429w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Los Angeles-based technical death metal released their long-awaited third studio album &#8220;Autotheism&#8221; on August 14th via Sumerian Records, coinciding with their massive Summer Slaughter tour alongside the who&#8217;s who of extreme metal. The album represents the latest step in the band&#8217;s musical journey, expanding considerably on what they did in the first two albums. About 10 days ago, I had a chat with guitarist, songwriter and producer Michael Keene to discuss his writing process for this album and the Summer Slaughter experience. 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The album represents the latest step in the band&#8217;s musical journey, expanding considerably on what they did in the first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/09\/14\/the-faceless-guitarist-michael-keene-discusses-autotheism-summer-slaughter-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;THE FACELESS Guitarist Michael Keene Discusses &#8220;Autotheism&#8221;, Summer Slaughter (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}