{"id":2967,"date":"2013-10-10T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2013-10-10T07:41:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:11:24","slug":"interview-with-helloween-guitarist-michael-weikath-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/10\/10\/interview-with-helloween-guitarist-michael-weikath-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Helloween Guitarist Michael Weikath (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/helloween_newalbum-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2968\" title=\"helloween_newalbum copy\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/helloween_newalbum-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/helloween_newalbum-copy.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/helloween_newalbum-copy-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>German power metal veterans Helloween made a long-awaited return to North America and completed a short headline tour with the last show at the Grove of Anaheim last Monday October 7th. It was their first show in Southern California after a gap of five years, and they presented material from their two latest album &#8216;Straight Out Of Hell&#8217; and &#8216;Seven Sinners&#8217;, along with some of the classics. Before the show, I had a chat with guitarist and founding member Michael Weikath to discuss the band&#8217;s return, the latest album, gear setup, future plans and more. Listen to the 10-minute interview below.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mcWX2F79Yiw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/2013\/10\/08\/helloween-make-long-awaited-return-to-southern-california\" target=\"_blank\">Gig Review: Helloween Make Long-Awaited Return To Southern California <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit Helloween on the web at:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/Helloween.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Helloween.org<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/HelloweenOfficial\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/HelloweenOfficial<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/HelloweenOrg\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/HelloweenOrg<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal German power metal veterans Helloween made a long-awaited return to North America and completed a short headline tour with the last show at the Grove of Anaheim last Monday October 7th. It was their first show in Southern California after a gap of five years, and they presented material from their two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/10\/10\/interview-with-helloween-guitarist-michael-weikath-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview With Helloween Guitarist Michael Weikath (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\/2967"}],"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=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}