{"id":1324,"date":"2017-08-06T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/06\/pentakill-how-a-metal-band-that-doesnt-exist-made-it-to-no-1\/"},"modified":"2017-08-06T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T14:00:43","slug":"pentakill-how-a-metal-band-that-doesnt-exist-made-it-to-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Pentakill: how a metal band that doesn\u2019t exist made it to No 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The band from the game League of Legends has stormed the charts and bagged cameos from the likes of Tommy Lee \u2013 despite existing only in the imaginations of their creatorsHow has a band that doesn\u2019t physically exist, with zero promotion from the music industry, breach the Billboard Top 40 and reach No&nbsp;1 in the iTunes metal&nbsp;chart?Conceived by California-based gaming gurus Riot Games in&nbsp;2014, Pentakill exist purely in the imaginations of their creators&nbsp;\u2013 and the 100 million global fans of League of Legends, the multiplayer online battle arena game that spawned the band\u2019s members, Karthus the Deathsinger, Yorick, Sona, Olaf and lead guitarist Mordekaiser the Master of&nbsp;Metal. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/shortcuts\/2017\/aug\/06\/pentakill-how-a-metal-band-that-doesnt-exist-made-it-to-no-1\" target=\"_blank\">Pentakill: how a metal band that doesn\u2019t exist made it to No 1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band from the game League of Legends has stormed the charts and bagged cameos from the likes of Tommy Lee \u2013 despite existing only in the imaginations of their creatorsHow has a band that doesn\u2019t physically exist, with zero promotion from the music industry, breach the Billboard Top 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}