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Swedish doom rock maestros Avatarium have just premiered online a new lyric video "Stockholm". The track is taken from the upcoming album, Death, Where Is Your Sting, which will be released on the 21st of October via AFM Records.
Almost ten years ago, Candlemass legend Leif Edling made the doom metal world a darker and ultimately more interesting place with new band, Avatarium. Over the next eight years the band released four critically acclaimed studio albums, two EPs, and a live DVD, An Evening With Avatarium - Live in Stockholm. Edling eventually left Avatarium's ranks due to health issues, but the band forged onward, and 2022 finds them capping off a prolific decade with their brand new album and AFM Records' debut, Death, Where Is Your Sting.
After the Stockholm-based collective shared previously-released songs, "God Is Silent" as well as the epic album title track, today, a haunting black & white lyric video has dropped for the third single, aptly titled "Stockholm".
Exceptional vocalist, Jennie-Ann Smith, reveals: ”Stockholm - this a song about hope and the courage to continue even in the darkest of hours.”
The band has evolved since their 2013 self-titled debut, and although they have introduced new elements along the way, Avatarium continues to operate within this doom-laden framework. Yet they are somewhat unique within doom metal, fronted by Jennie-Ann, unintentionally breaking genre boundaries. She has learned a lot from working with Leif Edling, whom she affectionately refers to as The Master Of Doom, and Death, Where Is Your Sting, marks the first time Smith has written all the lyrics for an album. This is significant in that lyrics have always inspired the song arrangements in Avatarium.
"There's a red thread from our debut album dealing with all sorts of existential questions", Jennie-Ann reveals. "That's what doom is to me. I come from a different musical background, but when it comes to thinking about death, I'm a natural (laughs). Avatarium is a vehicle that soothes the seriousness, and offers the sheer joy of music. There are all these layers on the new album; it is intellectual, it is existential, there are serious topics of religion, philosophy and psychology, but you can still just enjoy the music and get lost in the riffs." Link
Death, Where Is Your Sting tracklist:
01. A Love Like Ours
02. Stockholm
03. Death, Where Is Your Sting
04. Psalm For The Living
05. God Is Silent
06. Mother Can You Hear Me Now
07. Nocturne
08. Transcendent
Bonus CD (ltd. Earbook)
01. Boneflower (alternative version, live in the studio)
02. Great Beyond (alternative version, live in the studio)
03. Rubicon (alternative version, live in the studio)
04. Lay Me Down (alternative version, live in the studio)
05. The Fire I Long For (alternative version, live in the studio)
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