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Evergrey

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1996 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998. Their most recent album is Monday Morning Apocalypse, released in 2006.
Evergrey's lyrics have always been of the darker sort. The same can be said of the band's imagery. While The Dark Discovery dealt with a variety of ideas, later albums have been concept albums, dealing with issues like self-reformation (Recreation Day), paranoia, alien abduction (In Search of Truth), child abuse, cults and religion (The Inner Circle).
Recreation Day is an album that covers many issues, ranging from death and mourning to general fear and sorrow, all of which contribute to a greater concept of re-creation of oneself. These ideas are explored from many different points of view, such as someone contemplating suicide ("As I Lie Bleeding"), mourners after a funeral ("I'm Sorry," a cover of Dilba Demirbag's hit), and dying people's looking back on their "unforgivable" sins ("Unforgivable Sin"). "Unforgivable Sin" also acted as a catalyst for the next album, (The Inner Circle), which dealt with the same two issues described in the song: religion and child abuse.
On May 08, 2008, Evergrey announced that they have signed a deal with Steamhammer/SPV. This includes the release of their new album and the entire back catalogue. It also was announced that the new album, TORN, will be released early in September. As the deal includes the bands entire back catalog, there is the possibility of re-releases of previous Evergrey albums with the inclusion of added bonus material.

Lineup: Tom S. Englund - vocals/guitar Henrik Danhage - guitar/backing vocals Rikard Zander - keyboard/backing vocals Jonas Ekdahl - drums Jari Kainulainen - bass
Guest musicians: Carina Kjellberg-Englund - female vocals (1996-Present) The Gothenburg Symphonic Orchestra - string quartet (2004-2005) Mercury Choir (of the Swedish Catholic Church) - choir (2003)
Former members: Will Chandra (1996-1998) - keyboard Daniel Nöjd (1996-1999) - bass/vocals Dan Bronell (1996-2000) - guitar Patrick Carlsson (1996-2003) - drums Sven Karlsson (1999-2001) - keyboard Christian Rehn (2001-2002) - keyboard Michael Håkansson (1999-2006) - bass Fredrik Larsson - (2007) bass

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