{"id":28590,"date":"2021-08-12T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T15:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=28590"},"modified":"2021-08-29T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T21:28:16","slug":"finnish-heavy-rock-power-quartet-megasnake-released-their-first-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/finnish-heavy-rock-power-quartet-megasnake-released-their-first-single\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish heavy rock power quartet MegaSnake released their first single"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. -->\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>PRESS RELEASE<br>May 6th 2021<br>For immediate release<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/V9S8wlZ3i7g\">&nbsp;Finnish power quartet&nbsp;<strong>MegaSnake<\/strong>&nbsp;has released their first single &#8220;Sun Don&#8217;t Shine&#8221;. Band&#8217;s line-up is singer&nbsp;<strong>Richard \u201dTipe\u201d Johnson<\/strong>&nbsp;(Leningrad Cowboys, Gringos Locos, Apocalyptica&#8217;s live line-up), drummer&nbsp;<strong>Twist Twist Erkinharju<\/strong>&nbsp;(Peer G\u00fcnt, Leningrad Cowboys, Los Bastardos Finlandeses), guitar player&nbsp;<strong>Samuel Hjelt&nbsp;<\/strong>(Kings of Modesty, ex-Ancara) and bass player&nbsp;<strong>Henrik Tuura&nbsp;<\/strong>(Kings of Modesty, Killer Kachina)&nbsp;Just lately the band signed a record deal with Inverse Records and now the first single has seen the light of day. MegaSnake describes the song as &#8220;nice summer song&#8221;<br>Listen to &#8220;Sun Don&#8217;t Shine&#8221;:<br>Spotify:&nbsp;https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3gZk1WG<br>Youtube:&nbsp;https:\/\/youtu.be\/IwPQWWQVRuo&nbsp;(Music video)<br>Bandcamp:&nbsp;https:\/\/megasnake.bandcamp.com\/Apple Music:&nbsp;Siit\u00e4 https:\/\/apple.co\/3h5UgnG<br>Amazon:&nbsp;https:\/\/amzn.to\/3emTZen<br>Deezer:&nbsp;https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/us\/album\/225707852<br>Tidal:&nbsp;https:\/\/listen.tidal.com\/album\/181930076&nbsp;What\u2019s in a name?A: EverythingB: Nothing<strong>MegaSnake!?!?!?!?!?<\/strong>&nbsp;WTF!? Really!?&nbsp;MegaSnake is a fourpiece Rock band from Finland, who carrytheir name with dignity and pride.&nbsp;MegaSnake is out to have a good time, putting smiles on peoplesfaces (and their own) with high energy R\u2019n\u2019R.&nbsp;As far as previous history goes (former bands\/projects etc.) theMegaSnake gentlemen sure have it and then some.&nbsp;Richard &#8220;Tipe&#8221; Johnson: Vocals, GuitarGringos Locos, Leningrad Cowboys (1998-2010), Raskasta Joulua,<br>Apocalyptica (Live vocals, 2009-), Osmo`s Cosmos (2017-)&nbsp;Twist Twist Erkinharju: DrumsPeer G\u00fcnt, Leningrad Cowboys, Raskasta Joulua, Los Bastardos<br>Finlandeses, Dog Days Revolution, Kari Peitsamo &amp; Devils Milk.&nbsp;Samuel Hjelt: GuitarsKings of Modesty, Ex AncarA.&nbsp;Henrik Tuura: BassKings of Modesty, Killer Kachina.&nbsp;Having been around the block several times the guys also knowhow to take their music seriously, while not themselves too seriously.The MegaSnake gents say:&nbsp;<em>\u201cWe might grow older but we\u2019llnever grow up\u201d.<\/em>&nbsp;Anyway, here\u2019s MegaSnake with their first single release<em>Sun Don\u2019t Shine.<\/em>&nbsp;Enjoy!!!&nbsp;So: What\u2019s in a name?The guys in MegaSnake chooseA and B&nbsp;P.SMaybe playing covers by Whitesnake and Megadeath explains everything. Or then again nothing.<br>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/megasnake.fi<br>https:\/\/megasnake.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_39777\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V9S8wlZ3i7g?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASEMay 6th 2021For immediate release &nbsp; &nbsp;Finnish power quartet&nbsp;MegaSnake&nbsp;has released their first single &#8220;Sun Don&#8217;t Shine&#8221;. Band&#8217;s line-up is singer&nbsp;Richard \u201dTipe\u201d Johnson&nbsp;(Leningrad Cowboys, Gringos Locos, Apocalyptica&#8217;s live line-up), drummer&nbsp;Twist Twist Erkinharju&nbsp;(Peer G\u00fcnt, Leningrad Cowboys, Los Bastardos Finlandeses), guitar player&nbsp;Samuel Hjelt&nbsp;(Kings of Modesty, ex-Ancara) and bass player&nbsp;Henrik Tuura&nbsp;(Kings of Modesty, Killer Kachina)&nbsp;Just lately the band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[171,172,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-28590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rock","8":"tag-megasnake","9":"tag-metal","10":"tag-michaelnagy","11":"tag-rock","12":"post_format-post-format-video"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28748,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28590\/revisions\/28748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}