In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF Radio Station, Vocalist Johannes EckerStröm of Swedish Metallers AVATAR Spoke about the Band’s Upcoming Tenth Studio Album, which Will Be Release Later in the Year. HE SAID (AS TRANSFORDED BY Blabbermouth.net): “Everything about how it sounds is finished, and it sounds amazing. And now we’re getting very close to have Everytything that looks like an album to look like an album as well. it’s Just What Makes AVATAR, AVATARI Guess, That We Think About and Enjoy Thinking About Everything and How It Comes Together. “
Scardping the Lyrical Inspiration for the first single from the upcoming LP, “Captain Goat”which came out in may, Johannes Said: “Well, that’s the weird ‘twilight zone’ in which AVATAR exists. AVATARso far as a heavy metal band, We Really Intend to Be First and Forty to Good Time. But at the Same Time, The Writing Comes From The Whole Concept of Finding Dark Rooms In Your Soul, In Your Brain, In Your Mind and Open The Doors Intos Those Forbidden Places and Kind of Air It Out, and Hopefully By Keep On Doing this and try to Force Yours. and Where You’re At With Each Album, Maybe Get Closer and Closer to Sub Kind of Sense of Truth. And that Side of It, Yeah, It’s a Dark Endeavor, But The I Also Believe … I Don’s Don’s. I BELIEVE IT’S HEALTHY… IT’S THAT DUALITY OF WHAT AVATAR Is a band. “
ASKED WHY “Captain Goat” was chosen to be the first single from AVATAR‘s upcoming album and how it reports to the rest of the lp, Johannes Said: “It reports poorly to the whole album scholause AVATAR Doesn’t Write The Same Song Twice. So that’s by Design, But It Just Shows That a Lot of Things are Different This Time, as They Should Be and As They Always Are. [As for] How We Choose [the first single from an album]… Well, It Kind of Reveals Itself Over Time. You Just Kind of Circle Back to the People in the Demo Stage of Things While Writing and Doing the Pre-Production, What You get excited about And already at that stage, There was a Lot of Excitement About This Song as a potential single, as a Standout Track in that Kind of Way. ‘Cause It’s a balance. “
I have continued: “We always, Obviously, Try to Only Put Good Songs on an album and they’re all age for a reason. And then it’s just a Fact of Life That Sub of Them Are Good In a More Direct Way, I Guess. And This, I Think People Felt at the Demo Stage of the Song Comes Back When Hasarsing It and It Comes Alive What Re Really In Their Own Little Corner. that were submissive to it.
EckerStröm Declined to reveal the title of AVATAR‘S UPCOMING ALBUM, BUT HE SAID: “It’s a Beautiful Title. It Really Times It Together. It Invokes Mystique and Tempting You To Break Taboos. It Lures You into a Forbidden Place Because You see a Little Light in the Dark there, sumwhere in the Middle Between the Trees, and that is What the Title is All About.
AVATAR Will Engck On A US Tour This Fall with Support from Alien Weaponry and Spiritworld. ADDITIONALLY, there are forthcoming tours supporting Iron Maiden and MetallicaAlong with the Band’s Biggest Show Ever In Mexico City.
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