Avatar unleashed the new single and video ‘Death and Glitz’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Don’t Go in the Forest’, set for release by the end of this month!
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After hinting at it in our talk at Alcatraz last month, Avatar unveiled the album title and release date of their upcoming 10th ablum ‘Don’t Go in the Forest’! And to celebrate, we got a video for the opening track ‘Tonight We Must Be Warriors’! Don’t forget to catch them live this Fall in the US and early next year in Europe!
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Avatar is back with another single under the form of ‘In The Airwaves’, the fastest song they’ve done in quite some time! Catch them live the coming years supporting Iron Maiden in Europe right now, at their exclusive Europe festival show at Alcatraz Festival, US headline tour this fall, Europe headline tour early 2026 or supporting Metallica in Europe summer 2026,… plenty of opportunities!
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Avatar is back with their brand-new single ‘Captain Goat’, ahead of some massive touring supporting Iron Maidne in Europe in July, an exclusive European festival appearance at Alcatraz in August, and a headline tour in Europe and supporting Metallica in 2026!
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This summer we’ll get to enjoy them bringing their metal circus to the Alcatraz festival stage for an exceptional show, but if you’re going to miss out on that, no worries! Avatar just announced their 2026 Europe and UK headline tour “A Night To Be Torn Apart” with special guests Alien Weaponry, tickets available starting tomorrow April 25th!
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UK’s rising stars Urne have released the brand-new single ‘Throes Of Grief, their first release on Spinefarm that also comes with their take on the Black Sabbath track ‘I’!
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The heavy metal ‘n’ roll dark madcap visionaries collectively known as AVATAR will return to North America this summer for a headline tour!
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Avatar announced they’ll be providing an ‘impossible concert’ experience through Avatar Ages, a set of four live streams!
Swedish metal institution Avatar unleashes another track from their upcoming epos “Hunter Gatherer” upon the world. Check it out!
Swedish contemporary melodeath masters of Avatar revealed a second track for their upcoming new album ‘Hunter Gatherer’. Check it out!
Interviews
Two months after our talk at Alcatraz Festival, we stepped back into the forest with Johannes Eckerström of Avatar to talk about their upcoming album ‘Don’t Go In The Forest’ (out next week October 31st), from disco death grooves and true crime commentary to piano-born love songs and the return of the metal circus among many other things.
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At Alcatraz 2025, Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström opened up about the band’s next chapter: a new album that was not to be named (it has a name, but he was being a “good boy” in not unveiling the title), their fastest song in 15 years, and why independent festivals (like the one we were at) keep metal’s future alive.
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Last summer, we sat down with Johannes from Avatar for a short chat about how 2023 had been so far after their explosive opening show at Tuska 2023, how he experienced that show, and how he feels like the band is in its best form right now, ready to take over the world!
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A chat with Johannes from Avatar on the new album ‘Dance Devil Dance’ on why this is the best album of them as of yet, how they did things somewhat different and tried to approach everything in such a way that they thought people could dance to even blast beats and why now was the time for them to self-release the album.
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‘Zoom’ into our online video interview with Avatar’s Johannes Eckerström where we look back at Avatar Country and glimpse into Hunter Gatherer
For three years, Tim Tronckoe has been working on a secret project. But with Portraits finally nearing it’s completion, we had the opportunity to ask Tim some questions about his upcoming book.
For three years, Tim Tronckoe has been working on a secret project. But with Portraits finally nearing it’s completion, we had the opportunity to ask Tim some questions about his upcoming book.
An interview with Johannes Eckerström of Avatar… Or was that Terminator 2? Has that name change gone through yet? Old Kerry McKee got lost… So lost that he found his way into this article! Read more about it here!
We had a chat with Niclas about touring, the changes in their music and bands from their homecountry.
Aloha Mister Eckerström! We had a talk with the head of this group of Swedish jesters about a whole bunch of stuff…
Lists
For the second day of Alcatraz 2025, our team picked out 8 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Myrath, KNIFE, Baest, Drowning Pool, Rivers of Nihil, Nailbomb, Caliban and Avatar! What bands are you really looking forward to for this Friday at Alcatraz? Let us know in the comments!
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
Xavier apparently spent more time catching up with what he missed in 2022, than discovering new releases in a year that he seemed somewhat disappointed about what was coming out. He still picked out a handful of releases that stuck out for him with Nytt Land, Avatar, Gloryhammer, Kludde and Dymna Lotva!
With Glenn’s selection of his albums of the year, there is a bunch of metalcore, deathcore, djent and some surprising entries with Thy Art Is Murder, Avenged Sevenfold, Within Temptation, Tesseract, Avatar, In Flames, Sleep Token, Periphery, Invent Animate, and Chelsea Grin!
If you are still looking for a great summer destination, here are 10 festivals that might make Finland the ideal place to go for you with #Horizon23, Rockfest, Tuhdimmat Tahdit, Nummirock, Tuska, John Smith Festival, SaariHelvetti, Dark River Festival, Hellsinki Metal Festival and Flow Festival!
February has some great releases again, and we’re looking forward to albums from artists like Memoriam, In Flames, Paramore, dEUS, Mordkaul, Ulthar, Avatar, The Abbey, Insomnium, Host, Gorillaz and Heidevolk!
Photo Reports
Every year we like to look back at the amazing shows we captured, and in 2024 Anna/ScarletMemory Photography covered bands like Vola, Apulanta, Marko Hietala, Cyan Kicks, Stam1na, Kotiteollisuus, Blind Channel, Cyhra, Sigh, Everwave, Sonata Arctica, Neonfly, Altamullan Road, Avatar, Raskasta Joulua, Beatrix, Battle Beast, Steve ‘n’ Seagulls, Áilu Valle, Amoc and Trio Boogiemen mostly in Tampere, Finland!
While on the road supporting In This Moment and Ice Nine Kills on tour in the USA, the Swedish metallers of Avatar came to bring their “Great Metal Circus” to the Clyde Theatre in Ft Wayne, Indiana. One of the few headlining stops they’re doing, providing people the chance to get the full experience and freakshow treatment that usually comes with the band, providing a night to remember for many there! Support came from locals Mantra of Morta!
Avatar dropped by the legendary Helsinki venue Tavastia on their “The Great Metal Circus 2024” tour, bringing their visual spectacle and theatrics properly to Finland. With them they brought the US metallers of Æther Realm, really blowing up the night!
Last Monday, TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management brought the carnival to town. To be precise, the Swedish band Avatar and along with them Æther Realm from the USA. Avatar played a very fun show at Olympia-Kortteli in Tampere, including magic tricks, balloons and of course some good old heavy metal.
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
Our Benelux and France head of accreditation and most active photographer in that region, Tom VM, made his own selection of favorite pictures he took in 2023, including some new stuff that wasn’t shared on our site before with Biohazard, Bleed From Within, Brutal Sphincter, Brutus, Electric Callboy, Michael Schenker Group, Sepultura, Arion, Blackrain, Overdrivers, Avatar, Winery Dogs, Charlotte Wessels, Devin Townsend, Dream Theater, Extreme, Ghost, Michael Angelo Batio, Arch Enemy, Doodseskader, Halestorm, I Prevail, Powerwolf and SKYND!
Pictures of Avatar, Lost Society, Jinjer, Arch Enemy and Gojira taking over the main stage on the first day of Tuska 2023!
The biggest Metal Circus on the planet came through Munich and did some damage. The Swedish Avatar are tricky, and brought with them Veil of Maya and Kassogtha for a banger of a show at the Neue Theaterfabrik!
Avatar’s ‘Dance Devil Dance’ 2023 tour brought the circus back to Tilburg’s 013 Poppodium, supported by Veil of Maya and Kassogtha.
