{"id":4527,"date":"2012-02-08T00:23:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4527"},"modified":"2012-02-08T00:23:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:23:41","slug":"junius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/junius\/","title":{"rendered":"JUNIUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4811\" title=\"JUNIUS-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/JUNIUS-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/JUNIUS-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/JUNIUS-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>J<\/strong><strong>UNIUS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Reports From the Threshold of Death<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>juniusmusic.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Proving that metal dudes have feelings\u2014and maybe even listen to Joy Division and the Smiths\u2014Junius offsets violent guitars with epic synths and the sepulchral croon of frontman Joseph Martinez. While \u201cBetray the Grave,\u201d \u201cDance on Blood,\u201d and \u201cA Reflection on Fire\u201d may read like Slayer song titles, they\u2019re anything but typical metal tunes. This Boston group pouts as it headbangs, bringing a dark stylishness to its chugging riffs. \u201cThe Meeting of Pasts\u201d floats closer to Duran Duran\u2019s \u201cOrdinary World\u201d than most hard rockers would dare tread, while standout \u201cEidolon &amp; Perispirit\u201d is all keyboard and vocals for the first 3:15. Then the guitar hits, shattering a calm that couldn\u2019t last. This is metal, after all.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNIUS Reports From the Threshold of Death juniusmusic.com &nbsp; Proving that metal dudes have feelings\u2014and maybe even listen to Joy Division and the Smiths\u2014Junius offsets violent guitars with epic synths and the sepulchral croon of frontman Joseph Martinez. While \u201cBetray the Grave,\u201d \u201cDance on Blood,\u201d and \u201cA Reflection on Fire\u201d may read like Slayer song [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,2899,2901,2864,2900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}