{"id":2960,"date":"2013-10-10T06:24:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T00:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2013-10-10T06:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T01:06:20","slug":"kamelot-guitarist-discusses-touring-songwriting-more-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/10\/10\/kamelot-guitarist-discusses-touring-songwriting-more-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamelot Guitarist Discusses Touring, Songwriting &#038; More (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kamelot-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2961\" title=\"kamelot copy\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kamelot-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>Symphonic power metal band Kamelot did a North American headline tour last month in support of their latest album &#8216;Silverthorn&#8217;, and played at the Grove Of Anaheim on September 21. They put on an excellent show, presenting a diverse selection of material from their discography and for a change, the size of the venue allowed them to bring their full stage production. Before the show, I had a chance to interview guitarist, founding member and principal songwriter Thomas Youngblood to talk about this tour, new singer Tommy Karevik, songwriting approach, gear setup, and more. Listen to the 8-minute chat below.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MCFiVbOXkhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit Kamelot on the web at:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kamelot.com\" target=\"_blank\">kamelot.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/kamelotofficial\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>facebook.com\/<\/strong><wbr><strong>kamelotofficial<\/strong><\/wbr><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KamelotOfficial\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>twitter.com\/<\/strong><wbr><\/wbr><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/KamelotOfficial\" target=\"_blank\">KamelotOfficial<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal Symphonic power metal band Kamelot did a North American headline tour last month in support of their latest album &#8216;Silverthorn&#8217;, and played at the Grove Of Anaheim on September 21. They put on an excellent show, presenting a diverse selection of material from their discography and for a change, the size of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/10\/10\/kamelot-guitarist-discusses-touring-songwriting-more-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kamelot Guitarist Discusses Touring, Songwriting &#038; More (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2961,"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\/2960"}],"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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2966,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}