{"id":379,"date":"2012-01-29T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=379"},"modified":"2012-05-02T16:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:48:11","slug":"interview-graveyard-guitarist-drummer-talk-about-north-american-tour-next-album-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/01\/29\/interview-graveyard-guitarist-drummer-talk-about-north-american-tour-next-album-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Graveyard Guitarist &#038; Drummer Talk About North American Tour, Next Album (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/graveyard1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-380\" title=\"graveyard1\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/graveyard1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/graveyard1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/graveyard1-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/graveyard1-380x300.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been more than two years since Swedish hard rock quartet Graveyard last played on North American soil. To say that it&#8217;s been a long wait for fans is quite an understatement, specially considering the kind of impact their latest album &#8220;Hisingen Blues&#8221; has had on everyone. The band&#8217;s second full-length album is easily one of the best albums of 2011, and one through which Graveyard rapidly grew in stature among fans old and new.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now that the band is finally back here, it&#8217;s great to see them play to sold out venues wherever they go. LA&#8217;s Bootleg Theater continued this trend last night, and a few hours before the show started, I got a chance to sit down with guitarist\/vocalist Jonathan Ramm and drummer\u00a0Axel Sj\u00f6berg to talk about this tour, and their plans for the rest of the year. Listen to the 7-minute conversation below, and if you haven&#8217;t already heard &#8220;Hisingen Blues&#8221;,\u00a0do yourselves a huge favor, go to the band&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/graveyardofficial\" target=\"_blank\">facebook page<\/a><\/strong> and buy the album.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/2012\/01\/29\/graveyard-reconquers-las-bootleg-theater\/\">LA gig review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><object width=\"300\" height=\"300\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fgraveyard-interview-with-axel-sjoberg-jonathan-ramm%2F&amp;embed_uuid=e97d9038-b62e-45c4-be47-87ee5d61d1b4&amp;stylecolor=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"300\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/media\/swf\/player\/mixcloudLoader.swf?feed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mixcloud.com%2Fmetalassault%2Fgraveyard-interview-with-axel-sjoberg-jonathan-ramm%2F&amp;embed_uuid=e97d9038-b62e-45c4-be47-87ee5d61d1b4&amp;stylecolor=&amp;embed_type=widget_standard\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: block; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 3px 4px; color: #02a0c7;\"><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/graveyard-interview-with-axel-sjoberg-jonathan-ramm\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=resource_link\" target=\"_blank\">Graveyard: Interview With Axel Sj\u00f6berg &amp; Jonathan Ramm<\/a><span> by <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/metalassault\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=profile_link\" target=\"_blank\">Metalassault<\/a><span> on <\/span><a style=\"color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/?utm_source=widget&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=base_links&amp;utm_term=homepage_link\" target=\"_blank\"> Mixcloud<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal It&#8217;s been more than two years since Swedish hard rock quartet Graveyard last played on North American soil. To say that it&#8217;s been a long wait for fans is quite an understatement, specially considering the kind of impact their latest album &#8220;Hisingen Blues&#8221; has had on everyone. The band&#8217;s second full-length album &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2012\/01\/29\/interview-graveyard-guitarist-drummer-talk-about-north-american-tour-next-album-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview: Graveyard Guitarist &#038; Drummer Talk About North American Tour, Next Album (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}