Welcome back to Avatar Country! The mighty Avatar have unleashed a new track called ‘Tonight We Must Be Warriors’. A track that builds off the weird sounds we heard in the first song released ‘Captain Goat’. The video harkens back to the Wizard Of Oz and is quite the head-trip to see, so watch it!
A few weeks ago I had a chance to talk to Johannes about the album and how weird they were going to get with everything, to which he said this.
‘There’s all this stuff that your subconscious is telling you if you just shut up and listen. And to treat the songs like that, just write it and the truth of the song might be revealed to you. That’s where some truly amazing things will happen to you. I certainly did borrow and pick lyrical ideas from dreams I’ve had and also from childhood memories in a way I hadn’t done before, so it’s a bit more of a trip and the music reflects that, in a way the album is more progressive because in some parts we count to 5 or 7 instead of 4, we definitely don’t always do that and we don’t seek out to do it just because, but then it happened it’s a really cool thing we did there. It’s more emotionally complex also as a reaction to what “Dance Devil Dance” was all about jump to the chorus get to the chorus, let’s treat heavy metal music like rock n roll that was the whole ethos of that album…the songs on this one are allowed to flow in a way a bit more, take more sharper turns, be a bit more layered thematically and musically, have a couple more crazy parts before going back to the chorus.’
Your next chance to see Avatar will be on Tuesday November 18th at The Sylvee in Madison.
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