{"id":29224,"date":"2021-03-02T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=29224"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T16:18:40","slug":"nerd-music-meltdown-70-master-sword-and-zeldas-35th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/nerd-music-meltdown-70-master-sword-and-zeldas-35th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Music Meltdown #70: Master Sword and Zelda&#8217;s 35th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s the 35th anniversary of the original <em><strong>Legend of Zelda<\/strong><\/em>. The series is a favorite to many and Kent shares memories with the\u00a0 founder of Zelda metal band\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/masterswordband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Master Sword<\/a>, Matt Farkas.<br><br>We talk about our favorite Zelda games, what the series means to us, what inspired Matt to start a Legend of Zelda metal band, the struggles to get it going, the turning point when singer when Lily Taylor joined, happy hour on their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/mastersword\">Patreon<\/a>, and what to expect from Master Sword in the future. Kent also shares his thoughts on the recent Nintendo Direct.<br><br>Get more Master Sword at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/masterswordband.com\/\">masterswordband.com.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Want to get future episodes of the Nerd Music Meltdown before anyone else? Subscribe at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/ongakuoverdrive\">patreon.com\/ongakuoverdrive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Meltdown&#8221; theme by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/roborobmusic.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RoboRob<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/18024023\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 35th anniversary of the original Legend of Zelda. The series is a favorite to many and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29225,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29224\/revisions\/29225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}