Avatar - "A Night to be torn Apart"

A Night To Be Torn Apart - AVATAR have been exploring the dark soul of alternative and melodic death metal for over 20 years with consistent success. With their last album to date, "Dance Devil Dance", released in 2023, they not only taught Beelzebub how to dance, but also their global fans, who helped the album to notable chart positions in many nations and even to a top ten position in the UK rock charts. The single "The Dirt I'm Buried In", taken from this album, gave the Swedish quintet their first number one in the US Billboard rock charts and can therefore be regarded as their final breakthrough in the North American metal scene. Their extensive tours in the fall/winter of 2022 and 2023 were equally successful, during which they not only filled the biggest venues to date in many places, but also celebrated the one thousandth concert of their career. The band has never been concerned with hits and big success - the quintet led by singer, keyboardist and trumpeter Johannes Eckerström and guitarist and main songwriter Jonas "Kungen" Jarlsby are much more interested in developing their multi-layered metal sound. This was most recently demonstrated by "Dance Devil Dance", which, in addition to the tried and tested stylistic metal ingredients, increasingly focused on hard rock - as evidenced by a duet with Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale.

The Gothenburg-based band around singer Johannes Eckerström made a very conscious decision for their band name at the time, because an AVATAR - the appearance of a divine being in the form of a person - describes how the frontman and his bandmates feel. Since then, AVATAR have occupied the throne as dark visionaries in their world of heavy metal beyond all subgenres as an act that is always out of the ordinary - and in which you can discover surprising new elements with every new album. Founded 22 years ago as Lost Soul, AVATAR made their debut under their current band name in 2006 with "Thoughts Of No Tomorrow". This was followed by eight further studio albums every two years and a rapid success that immediately spread beyond the borders of Europe. With their last albums, AVATAR broke with their stylistic foundation in melodic death metal more and more boldly and consistently. While 2020's eighth album "Hunter Gatherer"
was their darkest release to date, with darkly industrial pumping anthems of human cruelty, contempt and loss, the most recent "Dance Devil Dance" offered a hard rock accessibility like no album before it. On the upcoming tenth album, which has been in production in Gothenburg since January under the direction of band confidant Jay Ruston, the focus is on dreams and their meanings - which, according to Johannes Eckerström, is expressed musically "in the most rhythmically intricate and at the same time melodically catchiest songs of our entire career". So, as always with Avatar, you can be very excited about the music to come.

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