{"id":2522,"date":"2012-03-28T12:10:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T19:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2012-05-04T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T05:30:32","slug":"alex-skolnick-to-guest-judge-heavy-mtl-battle-of-the-bands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2012\/03\/28\/alex-skolnick-to-guest-judge-heavy-mtl-battle-of-the-bands\/","title":{"rendered":"ALEX SKOLNICK To Guest Judge HEAVY MTL Battle Of The Bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/April_11_2012_-_Alex_Skolnick.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2522]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2524\" title=\"April_11_2012_-_Alex_Skolnick\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/April_11_2012_-_Alex_Skolnick.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/April_11_2012_-_Alex_Skolnick.jpg 502w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/April_11_2012_-_Alex_Skolnick-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex Skolnick (Testament, Alex Skolnick Trio), one of metal&#8217;s most legendary and influential thrash guitarists has been announced as the special guest judge for round 4 of Heavy MTL&#8217;s battle of the bands where the city&#8217;s heaviest and loudest bands take to the stage for a chance to win one of two prized spots on the Heavy MTL 2012 lineup at Parc Jean-Drapeau from August 11 to 12.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Heavy MTL 2012 Lineup &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.fanbridge.com\/l.php?cid=836410&amp;sid=128296058&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heavymtl.com%2F2-lineup%2Findex-cached.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.heavymtl.com\/2-lineup\/index-cached.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Round 4 will take place at Les Katacombes (1635 St. Laurent) on Wednesday, April 11th with the competing bands <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.fanbridge.com\/l.php?cid=836410&amp;sid=128296058&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Ferimha\" target=\"_blank\">Erimha<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.fanbridge.com\/l.php?cid=836410&amp;sid=128296058&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollowofficial.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hollow<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.fanbridge.com\/l.php?cid=836410&amp;sid=128296058&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Fmagnumstallion\" target=\"_blank\">Magnum Stallion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/clicks.fanbridge.com\/l.php?cid=836410&amp;sid=128296058&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.valfreyametal.com\" target=\"_blank\">Valfreya<\/a> for the symphonic metal night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Skolnick (Testament, Alex Skolnick Trio), one of metal&#8217;s most legendary and influential thrash guitarists has been announced as the special guest judge for round 4 of Heavy MTL&#8217;s battle of the bands where the city&#8217;s heaviest and loudest bands take to the stage for a chance to win one of two prized spots on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2012\/03\/28\/alex-skolnick-to-guest-judge-heavy-mtl-battle-of-the-bands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ALEX SKOLNICK To Guest Judge HEAVY MTL Battle Of The Bands&#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\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3029,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/3029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}