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Avatar – announce brand new studio album ‘Don’t Go In The Forest’ + the band also shared the video for ‘Tonight We Must Be Warriors’

Consider this your fair warning, but whether you heed it or not will make all the difference!

The heavy metal visionaries collectively known as AVATAR — vocalist Johannes Eckerström, guitarists Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Öhrström, bassist Henrik Sandelin, and drummer John Alfredsson — are thrilled to announce the thoroughly fitting October 31st release of their latest masterwork Don’t Go In The Forest.

“It has become a necessity to me over the years to be able to answer one question: Why is this important? It can’t be just another album. We need to discover something, try something else. It has to come from the heart. What is being said matters,” says vocalist Eckerström regarding the release of single, ‘Tonight We Must Be Warriors’.
 
“In days of isolation and despair, maybe we need to be reminded that we are not alone? We are one of many. Maybe we also need a reminder that the burden is on our shoulders? To get it done, we need to do the fighting ourselves. In our shared pain, we find solidarity.”
 
“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.
 
“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.”

The track listing for Don’t Go In The Forest will be revealed in due course. The band has previously shared ‘CAPTAIN GOAT’ and ‘In the Airwaves’. Will you enter the forest via the new track?

Pre-save the album HERE

Ian Mc Donnell

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