Jonas Ekdahl feedback: ”During the last couple of years, my ardour inside music has regularly shifted from touring and enjoying reside exhibits to the inventive facet of being within the studio: writing songs, recording, producing, and mixing. It has reached a degree the place I not discover pleasure and pleasure in touring, making it troublesome to proceed. It has felt like I used to be travelling away from one thing moderately than towards one thing at any time when we might exit to play. As an alternative, I need to dedicate my time, focus, and vitality to writing, producing, and mixing. Subsequently, I’ll not be performing gigs or excursions as a drummer.
“It is vital for me to make clear that the dearth of ardour for taking part in reside is solely the explanation for my resolution. It would not be truthful to the band or to myself to proceed doing one thing that does not excite me or convey me happiness.
“Equally vital for me to say is that I nonetheless maintain simply as a lot love for the blokes within the band as earlier than. They are going to all the time be like older brothers to me, having taken me underneath their wings since I used to be 17 years previous. I’ve nothing however love and respect for them!
“It seems like I’m going out with a bang in essentially the most constructive sense. I’m so happy with what the 5 of us have completed along with Theories Of Vacancy. The album really feels particular in so some ways and I hope that it’s going to translate and resonate with you guys simply as a lot because it does to me, and, I’ll nonetheless be concerned in Evergrey by way of songwriting and manufacturing.
“With all this being mentioned, we now have an unimaginable drummer able to take over for me in 2024, and I can not wait to listen to and see him play! He is really distinctive, and I am certain you may love him as a result of behind the drums, he is a beast! Thanks, thanks for all the things!”
