{"id":16649,"date":"2025-10-18T08:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16649"},"modified":"2025-10-18T08:07:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:07:22","slug":"past-forward-new-ep-by-ron-coolen-out-on-november-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16649","title":{"rendered":"Past Forward, new EP by Ron Coolen out on November 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ron-Coolen-1024x379.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ron-Coolen-1024x379.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ron-Coolen-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ron-Coolen-768x284.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ron-Coolen.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>On November 7, Ron Coolen will release his new EP&nbsp;<em>Past Forward<\/em>&nbsp;via RC Music, with&nbsp;5 powerful&nbsp;metal interpretations of iconic songs by Duffy, Muse, Bj\u00f6rk, Japan&nbsp;and Jamiroquai.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The songs are reimagined versions with a personal meaning. After his albums\u00a0<em>Rise<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Here to Stay<\/em>, Coolen is now taking a fresh step with this EP, featuring guest musicians\u00a0<strong>Chris Clancy, Timo Somers, Cheza Taylor, Steve Wilikin\u00a0and Hans Pieters<\/strong>.<\/p>\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<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"RON COOLEN - PAST FORWARD Trailer (out november 7, 2025)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bj8UaNcwNFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 7, Ron Coolen will release his new EP&nbsp;Past Forward&nbsp;via RC Music, with&nbsp;5 powerful&nbsp;metal interpretations of iconic songs by Duffy, Muse, Bj\u00f6rk, Japan&nbsp;and Jamiroquai. The songs are reimagined versions with a personal meaning. After his albums\u00a0Rise\u00a0and\u00a0Here to Stay, Coolen is now taking a fresh step with this EP, featuring guest musicians\u00a0Chris Clancy, Timo Somers,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16649\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Past Forward, new EP by Ron Coolen out on November 7<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16651,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16649\/revisions\/16651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}