{"id":49580,"date":"2015-06-04T19:08:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=49580"},"modified":"2015-06-19T07:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T12:30:50","slug":"audio-interview-with-breaking-benjamin-rock-on-the-range-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2015\/audio-interview-with-breaking-benjamin-rock-on-the-range-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Benjamin @ Rock on the Range 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by Steve Patrick<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Breaking-Benjamin-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Breaking Benjamin 2015\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-49583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Breaking-Benjamin-2015.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Breaking-Benjamin-2015-350x219.jpg 350w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Breaking-Benjamin-2015-500x313.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Breaking Benjamin are no strangers to the Rock on the Range stage. The band performed at the very first ROTR back in 2007. Since that time, the band has undergone some pretty drastic lineup changes, but the vocals and lyrics of Benjamin Burnley are still the prime drivers in Breaking Benjamin&#8217;s music. <\/p>\n<p>The band&#8217;s current lineup features Burnley backed up by Jasen Rauch (ex Red, lead guitar), Keith Wallen (ex-Adelitas Way, rhythm guitar), Aaron Bruch (bass), and Shaun Foist (drums). <\/p>\n<p>After putting on a much-buzzed-about performance on the Monster Energy Main Stage, Breaking Benjamin hit the press tent at ROTR 2015 to discuss their upcoming new album <em>Dark Before Dawn<\/em>. Burnley and company chatted with Hardrock Haven about the current single &#8220;Failure&#8221;, how the band takes pride in not playing to backing tracks, and how the existing lineup came together: <\/p>\n<p><center>::: Listen to the Interview :::<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/int15\/Breaking Benjamin.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/>Your browser does not support this audio format.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingbenjamin.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.breakingbenjamin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Nicole Napier<br \/>\nBand members (from L to R):Keith Wallen, Jasen Rauch, Benjamin Burnley, Shaun Foist, Aaron Bruch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by Steve Patrick &#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212; Breaking Benjamin are no strangers to the Rock on the Range stage. The band performed at the very first ROTR back in 2007. Since that time, the band <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2015\/audio-interview-with-breaking-benjamin-rock-on-the-range-2015\/\" title=\"Breaking Benjamin @ Rock on the Range 2015\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12393],"tags":[9761,9214,10719,11283,203,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-49580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arcint2015","8":"tag-9761","9":"tag-audio","10":"tag-breaking-benjamin","11":"tag-dark-before-dawn","12":"tag-interview","13":"tag-rock-on-the-range"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}