Avatar release new single & video - 'Death And Glitz'
- Rock Metal Machine
- Oct 3
- 5 min read
The heavy metal visionaries collectively known as AVATAR — vocalist Johannes Eckerström, guitarists Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Öhrström, bassist Henrik Sandelin, and drummer John Alfredsson — previously announced the thoroughly fitting October 31st release of their latest masterwork Don't Go In The Forest. Pre-save it here.
Johannes Eckerström states, “Death and Glitz is a song about perversion and detachment. A homeless, young runaway collapses and dies on a dancefloor. The crime scene tape becomes a red velvet rope. The investigator's camera flashes like paparazzi on the red carpet. We love her for dying. Now she's perfect. Obedient. Anything you want. The true crime genre is as sick as the sickest goregrind band you've ever heard. Its popularity and the form in which it's being consumed, as a choice between Mickey Mouse and hospital dramas, reveals a darkness.
The best ones are when it's someone young and attractive. A couple goes hiking. Only the man returns. What do we project on this very real person's very real tragedy? Do we see ourselves, with a strange envy for being so desired? Do we see a canvas on which we can paint the perfect future, if we were there to make it right? Do we completely dehumanize the victim and those who lost her, obsessed with the puzzle? No matter the reason, it is clear that no one is more obedient than the dead. People simply like it when death has a nice rack.”
Regarding the album, Eckerström offers, “The secret ingredient is that we still feel like we're just getting started. ‘Don't Go In The Forest’ is an album filled to the brim with stuff we've never done before,” continues Eckerström. “It's all songs and concepts we haven't been close to touch until now. The mind is wild and we have lost ourselves in the darkest woods, filled with memories, and fantasies. Forbidden thoughts that must be spoken.
He concludes, “It would have been impossible to make this album at any other time than now. That's all we ever wanted, and I think you'll find it's all you ever wanted too.”
Avatar have gone from strength to strength over the past several years. There's the critically acclaimed, 2023-released album Dance Devil Dance, which included rock radio chart topper ‘The Dirt I'm Buried In’. Not to mention the scores of sold-out headline shows across the globe and having an actual fossil named after them. The list goes on and on. But the past is the past and the future is, well, dark in the best possible way and that's JUST how Avatar like it!
Avatar show no signs of pausing to take a breath in their quest for absolute world domination — much less stopping. In fact, they Avatar will spend the foreseeable future (if not forever) on the road.
DON'T GO IN THE FOREST
‘Tonight We Must Be Warriors‘
‘In The Airwaves‘
‘Captain Goat‘
‘Don't Go In The Forest’
‘Death And Glitz‘
‘Abduction Song’
‘Howling At The Waves’
‘Dead And Gone And Back Again’
‘Take This Heart And Burn’
‘Magic Lantern’
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AVATAR ARE:
Johannes Eckerström — Vocalist
Jonas Jarlsby — Guitarist
Tim Öhrström — Guitarist
Henrik Sandelin — Bassist
John Alfredsson — Drummer
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