Avatarium

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Avatarium
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Avatarium at Rockharz Open Air 2018
Background information
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OriginStockholm, Sweden
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Years active2013–present
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Members
  • Jennie-Ann Smith
  • Marcus Jidell
  • Lars Sköld
  • Mats Rydström
  • Rickard Nilsson
Past members
Websiteavatarium.se

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Avatarium is a Swedish doom metal band from Stockholm, founded by Candlemass member Leif Edling in 2013.[1]

Biography

In the winter of 2012, Candlemass founder and bassist Leif Edling started to work on a new project and wrote a few demos. Looking for musical partners, he first reached out to his friend, Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt, but due to a lack of time, he declined.[3] Therefore, Stockholm-based guitarist Marcus Jidell (Soen, ex-Evergrey, ex-Royal Hunt) offered to help. Soon, Tiamat drummer Lars Sköld and keyboardist Carl Westholm joined the new band and the line-up was completed by Jidell's wife Jennie-Ann Smith, whose deep and bluesy voice added a new touch to Edling's typical heavy doom riffs.[citation needed]

By September 2013, they released their first EP Moonhorse and in November, their critically acclaimed eponymous full-length debut followed through Nuclear Blast.

The band's first live show outside of Sweden took place at the Dutch Roadburn Festival in April 2014, and in the fall of the same year, the Swedes released the EP All I Want.[4]

After a European tour and several festival appearances, the band entered the studio once more to record their second album. The Girl with the Raven Mask was released worldwide in October 2015 and was voted Album of the Month in several leading European magazines, such as Rock Hard[5] and Metal Hammer.[6] It was nominated for the independent music prize Manifest in Sweden, and in September 2016, Avatarium received the "Up and Coming" award from Germany's Metal Hammer.[7]

For health issues, Leif Edling quit playing live shows with the band on their headline tour through Europe, and Anders Iwers[8] joined the band as a live member. Although Edling stepped out of the spotlight, he is still active as songwriter for the band.

At the end of 2016, Avatarium entered the studio again to record their third album, Hurricanes and Halos, together with their new bassist Mats Rydström and organist Rickard Nilsson.[9] This time, singer Jennie-Ann Smith and guitarist Marcus Jidell also contributed to the songwriting. The full-length album was released on 26 May 2017 through Nuclear Blast. Their next album, The Fire I Long For, was released on 22 November 2019.[10]

As of April 2022, Avatarium is signed to AFM Records[11] and their fifth album, Death Where Is Your Sting, was released in October 2022.[12]

Discography

  • Avatarium (2013)
  • The Girl with the Raven Mask (2015)
  • Hurricanes and Halos (2017)
  • The Fire I Long For (2019)
  • Death, Where Is Your Sting (2022)
  • Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead (2025)

References

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Avatarium | Biography & History | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."7 Occult Rock Bands That Are Way Fucking Better Than Ghost". Retrieved 16 June 2018.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview With Jennie-Ann Smith From Avatarium : The Midlands Rocks". www.themidlandsrocks.com.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AVATARIUM – to release 'All I Want' EP". Nuclear Blast. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."RockHard: Album des Monats". www.rockhard.de.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Avatarium THE GIRL WITH THE RAVEN MASK: Album des Monats November". 21 October 2015.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."METAL HAMMER AWARDS 2016: Das sind die Gewinner!". 19 September 2016.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."LEIF EDLING To Sit Out AVATARIUM's Performance At ROADBURN; TIAMAT's ANDERS IWERS To Fill In". 4 April 2014.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."AVATARIUM – announce third studio album!". 21 February 2017.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Avatarium – Announce New Album, Launch Video For First Single". Metal Storm. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Avatarium – Ink Worldwide Deal With AFM Records". Metal Storm. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Death Where Is Your Sting". Metal Storm. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
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