In a latest dialog with Mexico’s Summa Inferno, Avatar‘s lead vocalist, Johannes Eckerström, spoke concerning the band’s ongoing musical endeavors.
Eckerström revealed that regardless of releasing their newest album, Dance Devil Dance, simply over a yr in the past, the band has been diligently engaged on new materials since final yr: “We have been writing since final yr. We’re at all times writing. The ambition is to — in lower than a yr, we hope to be in a studio recording new nice songs. So it is at all times ongoing, as a result of bear in mind, after we put out an album, it is already previous to us in a approach, so sooner or later, it is time to transfer on and begin wanting ahead. And that lives along with the touring and all the things else.”
“So all of that’s type of occurring unexpectedly. However no, it is not too quickly, however the precise particulars of it, the way it’s gonna be launched and stuff… Effectively, I can inform you that second half of 2025, we certain can think about that an Avatar album may and will come out. Then we’ll see if we dwell as much as that. However we intend to,” Eckerström added.
Addressing the numerous reactions to Dance Devil Dance, which noticed Avatar experimenting with their sound, Eckerström remained unfazed.
“Effectively, I believe we’re experimenting as a lot as we at all times do, as a result of we at all times wish to change. Each album is predicated on wherever we have been at that given time, so we are going to by no means — no matter we did up to now…. I imply, okay, Avatar will at all times be a metallic band, however past that, we type of by no means actually fear about what now we have already accomplished. We do go for the subsequent great point. And I believe our followers are used to this — they’re used to that Avatar Nation can occur after which Hunter Gatherer can occur instantly after that, and so forth.”
Eckerström believes Dance Devil Dance has been their best-received album thus far. He acknowledged that pleasing everyone seems to be an not possible job however expressed satisfaction with the album’s total reception.
“And so far as reception, I do imagine that that is our best-received album up to now, by way of that extra folks preferred it than disliked it. However you’ll be able to’t anyway please everybody. So I can not fear about that. As a matter of reality, I at all times put together myself for even worse outcomes each time an album is completed.
“I take heed to it one final time for myself and ask myself, ‘Okay, if everybody hates it, is that okay?’ Effectively, sure, as a result of I prefer it and everybody else can simply neglect about this and go and take heed to one thing else. However now we have to dwell with this. So I reply that query each time. So I am at all times prepared for approach worse reception, however as an alternative, that is the largest factor now we have ever accomplished. So, I believe it went fairly nicely.”
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