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It was refreshing and liberating.”īlack Waltz sees Avatar coming completely full circle, returning to a more aggressive form of heavy metal but incorporating the lessons they learned while jamming on big riffs with album number three. It was awesome to be this ‘rock n’ roll band’ for a while. “We decided to remove some unnecessary ‘look at me, I can play!’ parts and added more groove. Instead Avatar rediscovered their inherent passion for traditional heavy metal and classic rock n’ roll. But to take that another step would have turned us into something we didn’t want to be.”
“We figured, ‘We can play faster and make even weirder, more technical riffs,’ because Schlacht was cool. Where to go for album number three? “We basically rebelled against ourselves,” Eckerström says of 2009’s self-titled collection. “Intensity was very important,” he says, with some degree of understatement. While the following year’s Schlacht still contained flourishes of melody, the unrelenting metallic fury reached an extreme peak. The band’s debut album, 2006’s Thoughts of No Tomorrow, was filled with brutal, technical melodic death metal to be sure but already, “We tried to put our own stamp on it,” the singer assures. But we’re the new kids in the neighborhood in America at the same time.”Īvatar came of age as “little brothers” of sorts of the famed Gothenburg scene that spawned the celebrated New Wave Of Swedish Death Metal. “We’re somewhat veterans on the one hand. I grew up in this band,” Eckerström explains. The all-enveloping theme park vibe of the band’s music and visual counterpart means that, naturally, “it’s turning into something bigger.” “We’re in this weird field, caught in a triangle between extreme metal, rock n’ roll and what can be described as Avant-garde,” confesses Avatar vocalist Johannes Eckerström. Whether somebody gets their rocks off listening to Satyricon or System of a Down, they’ll find something suitably deranged here.
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With the grandiose showmanship of American professional wrestling, the snake oil salesmanship of early 20th century vaudevillian troubadours and the kinetically superheroic power of early Kiss, Avatar lays waste to lesser mortals with ease. Within Avatar’s diverse songs, a steady focus on the fluid and organic power of the riff (recalling the thunderous foresight of heavy metal’s original wizards, Black Sabbath) takes flight combined with an adventurous sprit veering off into the astral planes of the psychedelic atmosphere conjured by pioneers like Pink Floyd back in the day.Īvatar has found a footing that combines the best of rock n’ roll, hard rock and heavy metal’s past, present and future into an overall artistic presentation that is thought-provoking, challenging and altogether enchantingly electric.
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As Revolver dubbed them “A Band to Watch,” it earned acclaim from AXS, Metalsucks, New Noise, Metal Hammer, The Aquarian and more as the single “Diamonds for Gold” generated over 300K YouTube/VEVO views and “Blue” cracked 384K Spotify streams.Ī dark, twisted circus sideshow that’s built around bombastically grooving melodic death n’ roll is swinging forward with captivating glee, mesmerizing merriment and the plundering power of lethal pirates toward those brave souls who hand over a ticket to be torn by Avatar and their Black Waltz, the fourth album and first proper American release from the Swedish masters of mayhem. It’s also why the band quietly made a palpable impact with Nocturnal Masquerade. From jazz and classic rock to metal and experimental, everybody brings different flavors to the table. “I feel like that’s exactly what we’re doing here. “Everybody calls us ‘a progressive metal band,’ but I think the most progressive thing you can do is surprise your audience and keep yourself happy,” says Wills. As hypnotic as they are heavy, these thirteen tracks signify “progress” through and through.
While retaining the slippery schizophrenic spirit that turned them into a critical favorite on 2016’s ‘Nocturnal Masquerade’, the New Jersey quintet – Justin Matthews, Jason Goss, Matt Arensdorf, Wills Weller, & Johnuel Hasney dramatically augmented their unpredictable creative palette through expanding the grasp on melody, incorporating cinematic electronic flourishes, and even going acoustic, to name a few evolutions. Toothgrinder realized this fact while making their 2017 full-length, Phantom Amour.
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