{"id":5187,"date":"2013-02-26T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2013-02-26T06:22:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T14:22:29","slug":"kylesa-to-release-new-album-ultraviolet-on-may-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/2013\/02\/26\/kylesa-to-release-new-album-ultraviolet-on-may-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylesa To Release New Album &#8216;Ultraviolet&#8217; On May 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kylesa_studio.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[5187]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5188\" title=\"kylesa_studio\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kylesa_studio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kylesa_studio.jpg 600w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kylesa_studio-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kylesa_studio-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Kylesa is set to release <em>Ultraviolet<\/em>, one of the most anticipated hard rock releases of the year and the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed album <em>Spiral Shadow<\/em>, on May 28 via Season of Mist (May 24 in Europe).<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Whereas <em>Spiral Shadow<\/em> was a warm album suggesting concepts of hope, <em>Ultraviolet<\/em> is a bit colder and darker,&#8221; explains songwriter\/guitar player Laura Pleasants. &#8220;All of our studio albums have their own unique identity and we&#8217;ve always been a band who strives for something different than what current fads suggest.\u00a0 With <em>Ultraviolet<\/em>, we took a step inward and wrote music that we felt we had to write; this album centers around the multiple themes of loss and you can feel it in the music.\u00a0 Everyone goes through it during their lifetime and this record reflects that experience.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;<em>Unspoken<\/em>,&#8221; a new song from the eleven-track album is available now for Season of Mist newsletter subscribers (<a href=\"http:\/\/t.ymlp254.net\/quanawysjapahwatauuhq\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\">www.season-of-mist.com\/news\/kylesa-2013-02-26<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kylesa released a rarities collection in November titled &#8220;<em>From The Vaults, Vol. 1<\/em>,&#8221; which featured unreleased, new and alternate versions of songs spanning the band&#8217;s catalogue as well as one new song titled &#8220;<em>End Truth<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 Cope and Pleasants spent over a year going through their archives preparing the release.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The band&#8217;s most recent studio album, <em>Spiral Shadow<\/em>, had the highest metal\/hard rock entry on the Village Voice&#8217;s 2010 Pazz &amp; Jop album poll, led Pitchfork to say &#8220;Kylesa would be a household name&#8221; following the release and landed the band on the cover of Terrorizer as well as album of the month accolades from Metal Hammer, Rock Sound and Visions Magazines.\u00a0 In 2011, Kylesa became the first metal band to perform on Last Call with Carson Daly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kylesa will return to the road in May with more details forthcoming.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylesa is set to release Ultraviolet, one of the most anticipated hard rock releases of the year and the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed album Spiral Shadow, on May 28 via Season of Mist (May 24 in Europe).<\/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\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187"}],"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=5187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5190,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5187\/revisions\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}