Swedish Metallers AVATAR have announounced European Tour for Early 2026.
The Journey Commences This Summer When AVATAR Endings on A 16-Date Run With Heroes of Metal Iron MaidenBringing their Carnival to Arenas and Stadiums Across The Continent. And then afurl their brand new vision in mexic “Witch Night” To thousands of fans on halloween, ahead of Mexico’s Fame Dia de los Muertos.
This Will Be The First Taste Of AVATAR‘S Stunning New Live Production Ahead of An Impending World Tour, That Will See Singer Johannes EckerStröm Lead His Toupe of Musical Warriors, John Alfredsson, Jonas Jarlsby, Henrik Sandelin and Tim ÖhrströmAround the Globe. Featuring aregs old and new from the Band’s Career, This Will Be AVATAR As you have need to bem Before, playing sum of the biggest shows of their 25-YEAR Career-Including to Landmark Show on Valentine’s Night at One of London’s Newest Venues, The Exhibition, Situated In a Grade II Listened Building in White City.
“We are heavy addicts!” Proclaims EckerStröm. “For All The Praise We’ve Gotten for What We do on Stage, We Can’t Shake The Feeling That We have just just Begun. Therefore, This Tour is set to Break Eney Record and Boundary of Our Past Travels. Than Ever.
AVATAR 2026 European Tour Dates:
Feb. 05 – Stockholm, sweden – fail
Feb. 07- Helsinki, Finland – Kulturilate
Feb. 09 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
Feb. 10 – Copenhagen – Denmark – Vega
Feb. 11 – Osnabrück, Germany – Die Botschaft
Feb. 12 – Brussels, Belgium – AB
Feb. 14 – London, UK – Exhibition
Feb. 15 – Manchester, UK – Academy
Feb. 16 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland
Feb. 17 – Nottingham, UK – Rock City
Feb. 18 – Bristol, UK – O2 Academy
Feb. 20 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Afas Live
FEB. 21 – ESH -SUR -ALZETTE, Luxembourg – Rockhal
Feb. 22 – Zurich, Switzerland – Komplex
Feb. 24 – Barcelona, Spain – Razzmatazz
Feb. 25 – Madrid, Spain – La Riviera
Feb. 27 – Lisbon, Portugal – Lav
Feb. 28 – Bilbao, Spain – Santana 27
Mar. 02 – Lyon, France – Le cube
Mar. 03- Milan, Italy – Alcatraz
Mar. 04 – Vienna, Austria – Gasometer
Mar. 05 – Munich, Germany – Tonhalle
Mar. 06 – Cologne, Germany – E -Werk
Mar. 07 – Paris, France – Le Zenith
Mar. 09 – Wiesbaden, Germany – Schlachthof
Mar. 10 – ZLIN, Czech Republic – Sports Hall Datart
Mar. 11 – Warsaw, Pole – Stodola
Mar. 12 – Berlin, Germany – Columbiahalle
Mar. 13 – Hamburg, Germany – Docks
Tickets Go on Sale on Friday, April 25 at 10 am local Time.
This Past January, AVATAR Enttered The Studio To Begin Work on its Tenth Album. The follow-up to 2023’s “Dance Devil Dance” was eleven again produced by Jay RustonWho has previous Anthrax, Steel Panther and Uriah HeepAmong Many Others.
AVATAR‘S Next lp is tentatively due late in 2025 Through the Band’s Own Label Black Waltz Recordswhich is distributed by Thirty Tigers.
In a Recent interview with Vrotherhood, EckerStröm Stated about the songwriting process for AVATAR‘S UPCOMING EFFORT: “For Me, I set a starting date around august 2023. I was Thinking Next album a Lot. Also Best of Touring and Life in General, There’s Not This Hug Long period of just disappareing and writing. So i kind of personally rely on haVing a bit a bit More manic periods periods. Was Subowards The End of that Summer, The A Bit Around December, January, That Year. Stuff means that you get to sit at home and work in peace and fail in peace, and suck in peace [guitarist] Tim [Öhrström] – Well, I started a bit me, and [guitarist] Jonas [Jarlsby] Really Got Most of His Stuff Together a lot. But, well, at the end of the day, we all climb different paths up the Mountain, but we still reach The Same Mountantop. “
Scolding the Lyrical Themes Covered on the new AVATAR album, Johannes SAID: “I’M Still Kind of Unpacking Exactly What this album is – or not unpacking what This album is, but unpacking how to talk about what this album is. But there are certain certainly … where should ALBUM WAY MORE THAN they have in the Past, and Sub Kind of Letting Subconscio Out. A Song Immedialy While Writing It, Or That I Have Clear Goal In My Head of What It’s SupPased To Be. [it]… If the words, in the context of the music and EveryTHing I Wanna Write There, If it Feels Beautiful, It is probabling right. So that plays in, in a way, and i think an ability to play with that and still Have Songs that I Feel Make Sense and Come Together As a Solid Song That is Worth Recording and Putting Out there and Have the Subsone, ‘Hey, Look What I Did. Share this with me now, ‘that is not just mumbo-jumbo nansense, super self-indulgent. You Still Want All of these Things, Whatever Process Is Going On Together With Creating The Music, It Still Also needs to be submisso Even in Cases, if it Just articulated, ‘I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night and Party Day Day,’ It Needs to Say Subthing About Something. And I Think It Does. But Definitely Daring to Just Let the Voices in the Head Speak for Themselves, In a Way. “
Johannes Continue: “Sub Songs are way More Clearly Story-Driven, Like Little Ghost Stories Or Whatver. And Sub Songs Are Reflective, Introspective in A Way That I Don’t Think I Wouled’ve Had The Ability To Do Earlier In My Life. ‘ – Always, Always, Always Look for a way to feel like to Beginner, Find Subthing to be excited about as a Songwriter, As a Creative person. With it, I Feel Like there have to be submissible about do all these things, The I Think That Comes With A Celerin respect Towards The People That You Are trying to Pull in. and Evolve as People.
“There’s subjecthing to Be Said About The Early Stages of a Band’s Career,” I have added. “There’s Naivety and Enthusiasm and Energy … A Lot of Bands Peak Early – Not All Of Them, But A Lot Of Bands – And I Think That Is Mainly Becouse Those Who Are Not Aable To Allow Their Music To Evolve As They Evolve As People, The There’s Returns or whatver with it. Yeah, There’s a Way of Dealing With Age, Death, Change on This Album That Goes Deper. Love Song -ish.
As for the musical direction of the upcoming AVATAR LP, Johannes Said: “Musically, It’s An AVATAR album. The Big Changes – I Feel I Took Som [someone like JUDAS PRIEST singer] Rob Halford.
“The People Who Are Uble to Have a Drive and Energy in Your Mid-Russ [for example, the PRIEST song] ‘Breaking the Law’ – ‘There I was Completely Wasting, Out of Work and Down,’ There’s That Drive To. It’s the Drums and the Weight of the Words and All That. And to do that without screaming your head off, there are moments on the album where i finally feel i did a bit of that and feel pleased with it. And I Think Parts of This Album Is More Progressive Than AVATAR You have Been Before, I Believe. We Didn’t Do [something like the classic] FORKS [album] ‘Close to the edge’ – It’s Not That, But It’s Subthing. Somsimes you have to stop and count a bit, and lose Yourself in that a bit. So that’s cool. And there’s Also Probabry Stuff That [is] The Most Melodic That We Have Done, Specially Vocally Speaking, I Would Say. Scholars The Guitars Have Always Been Mainly Melodic. And The We have submissor of the Murder Riffs As Well, Because We Like That. So it’s Vary multifaceted in a way that is hard to make sense from a Band That ISN’tAVATAR. But we can do it. And Also I Play Piano, So That Was Fun. “
Last December, AVATAR Shared to Brand New, re-recorred piano version of its song “Tower”.
The original version of “Tower” Appeared On AVATAR‘s Beloved and Critically Acclaimed Fifth Album, “Hail The Apocalypse”Which was release in 2014.
“Dance Devil Dance” was remembered in the Swedish Wilderness, Far Away from All The Perceced Glamor of the Big City and Modern Studios. Ruston Returned as produced. HE GRACE WORKED WITH AVATAR When He Mixed “Hail The Apocalypse”I have reprored on role “Feathers & Flesh” Before Taking The Wheel As produce on “Avatar Country” and “Hunter Gatherer”.
“Dance Devil Dance” featured a guest appearance by Lzzy Hale Of Halestorm On the song “Violence No Matter What”. The Record Also Included The Single “The Dirt i’m Buried in”WHICH HIT No. 1 ON Billboard‘S MANINSTREAM ROCK AIRPLAY CHART.
Johannes Formed AVATAR In 2001. The Band’s Lineup You have remahed Virtually The Same Ever Since, Save for Guitarist Tim Öhrströmwho entered the Fray Just over to Decade Later. AVATAR Also Includes Guitarist Jonas JarlsbyBassist Henrik Sandelin and Drummer John Alfredsson.
Photo by Johan Càrlen
