AVATAR

Avatar have been exploring the dark soul of alternative and melodic death metal for over 20 years with consistent success. With their penultimate album "Dance Devil Dance", released in 2023, they taught Beelzebub how to dance; with their latest album "Don't Go in the Forest", they skillfully explored the balancing act between intricate rhythms and catchy choruses. Both approaches appealed to their global fans, who helped the albums to notable chart positions in many countries. Their extensive tours in the spring of this year - including five shows in Germany in March - were equally successful, filling the biggest halls in many places. The band has never been interested in hits and big success - much more important to the quintet around singer, keyboardist and trumpeter Johannes Eckerström and guitarist and main songwriter Jonas "Kungen" Jarlsby is the further development of their multi-layered metal sound. This was most recently demonstrated by "Don't Go in the Forest", which, in addition to the tried and tested stylistic metal ingredients, focused increasingly on melodiousness.

The Gothenburg-based band led by Johannes Eckerström made a very conscious decision for their band name at the time, as an avatar - the appearance of a divine being in the form of a person - describes how the frontman and his bandmates feel. Since then, Avatar have occupied the throne as dark visionaries in their world of heavy metal beyond all subgenres as an act that is always out of the ordinary - and where you can discover surprising new elements with every new album. Founded 22 years ago as Lost Soul, Avatar made their debut under their current band name in 2006 with "Thoughts Of No Tomorrow". This was followed by nine further studio albums every two years and rapid success that immediately spread beyond the borders of Europe.

With their last albums, Avatar broke with their stylistic foundation in melodic death metal more and more boldly and consistently. While the eighth album "Hunter Gatherer" from 2020 turned out to be their darkest release to date, with dark industrial pumping anthems about human cruelty, contempt and loss, the ninth "Dance Devil Dance" offered a hard rock accessibility like no album before. The current, tenth album, which was released last October, focuses on dreams and their meanings - which, according to Johannes Eckerström, is expressed musically "in the most rhythmically intricate and at the same time melodically catchiest songs of our entire career". So, as always with Avatar, you can be very excited about the current concerts.

Avatar will be bringing Danish death metal newbies Neckbreakker to their three German shows in December. The band impressed with their rugged debut album "Within the Viscera" in 2024 and have since made a name for themselves as a brutal live act that leaves no stone unturned.