Perhaps an obvious choice for a single with the slightly eerie whistle performed by Corey Taylor of Slipknot of fame during the opening of “A Secret Door”, Avatar have chosen one of the stand out cuts from “Hunter Gatherer” for the full music video treatment. It should be given a live airing during the bands pay per
Sylvia Massy, the producer who worked with Avatar on their 2016 album “Of Feathers & Flesh” has been the fans choice for interviewing vocalists Johannes Eckerström as he answers questions from those very fans on subjects from Shotguns to Microphones and Parachutes. All this comes ahead of the bands hugely ambitious set of 4 streams
Avatar have become the latest band to move into the pay per view streaming market with a hugely ambitious set of 4 streams set for January 2021. They’ve taken it upon themselves to rehearse a new set for 7 days straight between shows with fan voted set lists so that each stream will be an
Filmed over a two year period across multiple countries, Scaling The Mountain is a documentary that chronicles the life of Swedish Avant-garde Metallers Avatar as they create their critically acclaimed album “Hunter Gatherer“. Reunited with producer Jay Ruston (Stone Sour, Anthrax) at Sphere Studios in Los Angeles, California for the record, it sees the band
Believe it our not, our eyes were opened to the Avatar World thanks to the recommendation of one Matt Heafy of Trivium fame. His praise for the band turned us onto their new album “Hunter Gatherer” and the rest is… well history. It may not be part of their sick riffs series but this new
Swedish Avant-garde Metallers Avatar are a band who have some incredible ideas… And some really unhinged ones. Back in 2012 the band recorded their fourth studio record “Black Waltz” and when it came to shooting a music video for the title track, the makeup artist gave frontman Johannes Eckerström the now infamous Clown Face that
In 2019 Avatar reunited with producer Jay Ruston (Stone Sour, Slipknot, Anthrax) at Sphere Studios in Los Angeles, California, where the foundation for each song on Hunter Gatherer was laid with the band performing altogether, as they’d done only once before on 2014’s “Hail the Apocalypse“. Aimed at capturing the bands live energy by allowing
This time next week it will be the eighth Christmas Eve for Avatar fans as they will be getting ready to dive into “Hunter Gatherer” as it falls, courtesy of Century Media, down their chimneys on 7th August. In the meantime, here’s guitarist duo Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Ohrstrom taking Gear Gods through their live
In Seattle Washington a storm has been brewing as members and former members of The Fabled, Ocean of Obsession, Beldom, Igne Irae, Silent Uprising got together to reform brutal Power Metal act Vesuvian who had started out in 2015 with EP “Lahar“. Original member vocalist/lyricist RJ Mitchell remains at the helm of the project and after
Winners of the Dutch Wacken Battle in 2019 that saw them play off against a whole host of other bands to get their opportunity to perform at one of Europe’s largest Metal Festivals, TerraDown gave themselves a huge platform to share their music upon. Citing influences in Amon Amarth, Avatar and Killswitch Engage, Nick Brouwer (Vocals), Jasper
