{"id":2830,"date":"2013-09-26T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T09:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2013-09-26T22:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T16:38:54","slug":"valient-himself-talks-touring-new-album-bad-movies-lots-more-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/09\/26\/valient-himself-talks-touring-new-album-bad-movies-lots-more-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Valient Himself Talks Touring, New Album, Bad Movies &#038; Lots More (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VALIENT-THORR_Our_Own_Masters_albumcover-copy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2831\" title=\"VALIENT THORR_Our_Own_Masters_albumcover copy\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VALIENT-THORR_Our_Own_Masters_albumcover-copy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VALIENT-THORR_Our_Own_Masters_albumcover-copy1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VALIENT-THORR_Our_Own_Masters_albumcover-copy1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>North Carolina-based heavy rock outfit Valient Thorr have intrigued me ever since I saw them open for Mastodon back in 2010 and subsequently with Mot\u00f6rhead the year after. With a dynamic and highly entertaining live show, they compel the audience to take notice. They&#8217;ve toured relentlessly for the past few years, and following the release of their latest album &#8216;Our Own Masters&#8217; earlier this year, they&#8217;ve continued on the touring run, promoting what in my opinion is their strongest studio album till date. They brought their headline tour to the Roxy Theatre in West Hollywood on Tuesday September 17th 2013, and before the show I had the pleasure of chatting with frontman Valient Himself about all kinds of topics.\u00a0I aired the 14-minute interview on Episode 6 of the Metal Assault radio show on Razor KXRZ in the live broadcast last Wednesday September 25th 2013, and now the podcast version of the entire episode is posted below. The Valient Thorr segment begins at exactly the 22:03 mark. Check out the full playlist for the episode\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1g3LPwgBOsC41tfsv_9mazmaXvyb_szXUYgs0mHYe-mM\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fmetal-assault-podcast-episode-6%2F&amp;show_tracklist=&amp;stylecolor=&amp;hide_artwork=&amp;mini=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard&amp;embed_uuid=b581bc55-f704-4171-823e-b1640b809d3b&amp;hide_cover=\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/2013\/09\/18\/valient-thorr-headlines-the-roxy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gig Review: Valient Thorr Headlines The Roxy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit Valient Thorr on the web at:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ValientThorr.com\" target=\"_blank\">ValientThorr.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/ValientThorr\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/ValientThorr<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ValientThorr\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/ValientThorr<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/Valient_Himself\" target=\"_blank\">instagram.com\/Valient_Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Remaining dates on current tour:<\/strong><br \/>\nSeptember 26 &#8211; Chattanooga, TN &#8211; JJ&#8217;s Bohemia<br \/>\nSeptember 27 &#8211; Spartanburg, SC &#8211; Ground Zero<br \/>\nSeptember 28 &#8211; Wilmington, NC- Ziggy&#8217;s By the Sea<br \/>\nSeptember 29 &#8211; Chapel Hill, NC &#8211; Local 506<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal North Carolina-based heavy rock outfit Valient Thorr have intrigued me ever since I saw them open for Mastodon back in 2010 and subsequently with Mot\u00f6rhead the year after. With a dynamic and highly entertaining live show, they compel the audience to take notice. They&#8217;ve toured relentlessly for the past few years, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/09\/26\/valient-himself-talks-touring-new-album-bad-movies-lots-more-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Valient Himself Talks Touring, New Album, Bad Movies &#038; Lots More (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2831,"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\/2830"}],"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=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}