EVERGREY - Fifth Behind-The-Scenes Webisode AvailableThe fifth in an eight-part series of weekly webisodes featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interview clips with
EVERGREY about the making of their forthcoming album,
Glorious Collision, can be seen below:
The song 'Restoring The Loss' from Glorious Collision can be heard exclusively via Radio Metal at
this location.
Release parties will be held in
Sweden
and Norway to celebrate the release of Glorious Collision. These parties will have Evergrey perform acoustic versions of new and old songs from the bands catalogue.
Dates include:
February
23 - Stockholm, Sweden - Göta Källare
25 - Skövde, Sweden - Husaren, Backstage
26 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Sticky Fingers
March
4 - Fredrikstad, Norway - Helheim Bar
Evergrey's new single, 'Wrong', will accompany the new issue of Close-Up magazine, out in early February. Further details at
this location.
Evergrey's 's eighth studio album,
Glorious Collision, is due for release on February 8th in Japan, February 22nd in
North America, February 25th in Germany and February 28th throughout Europe via SPV/Steamhammer. Audio samples from the entire album can be heard at
this location.
Check out BW&BK scribe Mark Gromen's track-by-track review at
this location, as well as Gromen's new Evergrey feature at
this location.
Occasionally a musician has to take a step back into the past to develop artistically.
Tom Englund, guitarist and vocalist with
Evergrey, took this risk and reorganised his artistic environment. “The most recent Evergrey line-up had reached a point where we no longer had fun as a group,” he confesses, adding: “So we went our separate ways to save our friendship. There were no angry words, and we’re still friends privately.”
Naturally, the decision to break up wasn’t easy for these long-standing friends, especially for Englund and his remaining keyboardist, Rikard Zander, for whom a continuation of Evergrey was never called into question. Yet they both had to face a new challenge: “In the beginning, we weren’t sure whether we’d be able to write a new album without the wealth of experience that the previous line-up brought in. But after Rikard and I had composed a full three numbers during the first week, we felt that was a real coup.”
“This may sound like a contradiction in view of our personnel situation, but Rikard and I have allowed more influences on Glorious Collision than ever before. Some elements on Glorious Collision are
classic rock, based on a metal format, sometimes the tracks are quiet and haunting, sometimes wild, demanding and gripping.”
This diversity is also expressed in the instrumentation of this extremely dynamic studio production which presents the new band members
Marcus Jidell (guitar),
Hannes Van Dahl (drums) and
Johan Niemann (bass). “It’s great to hear what a breath of fresh air
Marcus, Johan and
Hannes have brought into the band,” Englund enthuses. “Although the entire material, except for two songs to which
Marcus contributed on the compositional side, had already been decided when we started recording, they all left their own, very personal mark on this album.” The great experience of Jidell and Niemann, who have worked with acts such as
ROYAL HUNT and
THERION, among others, and have now contributed lots of positive energy together with the 20-year-old drummer, Van Dahl, can be felt throughout the album.
Glorious Collision tracklisting:
'Leave It Behind Us'
'You'
'Wrong'
'Frozen'
'Restoring The Loss'
'To Fit The Mold'
'Out Of Reach'
'The Phantom Letters'
'The Disease ...'
'It Comes From Within'
'Free'
'I'm Drowning Alone'
'... And The Distance'
'... And The Distance (Carina Bonus track)
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