About to embark on a headlining US run with Veil Of Maya and Orbit Culture Avant-Garde Metallers Avatar have shared a music video for “Chimp Mosh Pit” from their bats*** crazy new album “Dance Devil Dance”. Very well received, the record will also take them for them head to Australia in August and thus supporting
More precisely Avatar frontman and unhinged mastermind Johannes Eckerstrom talks to Joshua Toomey and Chris Akin of KnotFest about the fan reaction to the bands latest offering “Dance Devil Dance” as well as why the band decided to form their own label and go independent from here on out. There is even time to give
“I woke up to the truth one day. With my heart pounding, and a heavy breath, I knew for sure. I am Satan. The snake and forbidden fruit with a longing for knowledge, freedom and agency. My feet were moving. I thought I was running, but I was dancing. A celebration. Yes, I am the
“You always hear bands say, ‘This is our best album yet.’ This is our best album yet. It is AVATAR at our most laser-focused, at our most razor sharp. There’s no BS, no extra fat. Every track is a weapon and has a purpose. It’s all in the title, as this album is our angriest,
Pro-Shot at the Sophie Lancaster Main Stage at this summers incarnation of Bloodstock Open Air Festival, here’s “Colossus” from the Metal circus that is Avatar as they prepare to bring us to a new hell with their next burnt offering just around the corner. James Cameron surely wouldn’t have the power to make the band
And now for another moment of pure unadulterated pleasure. The rumours have been rife that Swedish Heavy Metal madcap visionaries Avatar have a new album in the works and so it is now finally written as “Dance Devil Dance” will be unveiled on 17th February 2023.
A quintet of cuts from an Avatar show at the Corona Theatre in Montreal Quebec Canada on 7th July have surfaced as the Metal Circus escaped the trappings of Brazil where they supported Iron Maiden. They’ll be hunting upon our shores come February with string of headline shows line up, support coming from Mastiff and
Around a huge summer that included a stadium tour of Brazil with Iron Maiden, an arena run with Sabaton and select festival appearances, Swedish Metallers Avatar have been working on their ninth studio album. No one can have expected a first single so soon but “Valley of Disease” has premiered, once again pushing boundaries as
The final single of 2021 and fifth since 2020 album “Hunter Gatherer” dropped has appeared from Avatar titled “Cruel and Unusual” ahead of a headlining tour in the United Kingdom with Veil Of Maya in January. Each of those singles has come via the bands own imprint label Black Waltz Records as the band departed
Having added Veil Of Maya to their turn of the year European tour run Avatar have continued the post “Hunter Gatherer” era with another seemingly standalone single that sees them enter the festive spirit. The track is to be released together with a children’s book portraying the ‘not-very child-friendly everyday life’ in Santa’s workshop in
