AVATAR – ute med ny singel

Heavy metal-visjonærene kjent som AVATAR (vokalist Johannes Eckerström, gitaristene Jonas Jarlsby og Tim Öhrström, bassist Henrik Sandelin og trommeslager John Alfredsson), annonserte tidligere utgivelsen av sitt nye mesterverk «Don’t Go in the Forest» 31. oktober.

I dag deler bandet videoen (official visualizer) til den nye singelen «Death and Glitz».

Vokalist Johannes Eckerström sier:

“Death and Glitz is a song about perversion and detachment. A homeless, young runaway collapses and dies on a dancefloor. The crime scene tape becomes a red velvet rope. The investigator’s camera flashes like paparazzi on the red carpet. We love her for dying. Now she’s perfect. Obedient. Anything you want. The true crime genre is as sick as the sickest goregrind band you’ve ever heard. Its popularity and the form in which it’s being consumed, as a choice between Mickey Mouse and hospital dramas, reveals a darkness. The best ones are when it’s someone young and attractive. A couple goes hiking. Only the man returns. What do we project on this very real person’s very real tragedy? Do we see ourselves, with a strange envy for being so desired? Do we see a canvas on which we can paint the perfect future, if we were there to make it right? Do we completely dehumanize the victim and those who lost her, obsessed with the puzzle? No matter the reason, it is clear that no one is more obedient than the dead. People simply like it when death has a nice rack.”

Om albumet sier Eckerström videre:

“The secret ingredient is that we still feel like we’re just getting started. Don’t Go In The Forest is an album filled to the brim with stuff we’ve never done before. It’s all songs and concepts we haven’t been close to touch until now. The mind is wild and we have lost ourselves in the darkest woods, filled with memories, and fantasies. Forbidden thoughts that must be spoken.”

Han avslutter: “It would have been impossible to make this album at any other time than now. That’s all we ever wanted, and I think you’ll find it’s all you ever wanted too.”

Avatar har styrket posisjonen sin de siste årene. Det kritikerroste albumet «Dance Devil Dance» fra 2023 inkluderte deres første 1.-plass på Billboards Mainstream Rock Airplay med «The Dirt I’m Buried In». De har spilt en lang rekke utsolgte headliner-show verden over — og fått et faktisk fossil oppkalt etter seg. Listen fortsetter.

Men fortiden er fortid, og fremtiden er mørk på den best mulige måten, akkurat slik Avatar liker det. Avatar kommer til å tilbringe overskuelig fremtid (om ikke for alltid) på veien. Se nedenfor for en full oversikt over bandets planlagte turnéaktivitet de neste to årene, inkludert en nordamerikansk headliner-turné høsten 2025 etter albumslipp.

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