{"id":87890,"date":"2021-10-29T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=87890"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:02:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:02:10","slug":"avatar-debut-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=87890","title":{"rendered":"AVATAR &#8211; Debut New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>AVATAR<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 comprised of vocalist\u00a0<strong>Johannes Eckerstr\u00f6m<\/strong>\u00a0(vocals), guitarists\u00a0<strong>Jonas Jarlsby<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Tim \u00d6hrstr\u00f6m<\/strong>, bassist\u00a0<strong>Henrik Sandelin<\/strong>\u00a0and drummer\u00a0<strong>John Alfredsson<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 are ambitious rock sorcerers of the highest order. They are known to smash the boundaries between band, theater troupe, and cinematic masterminds with a series of celebrated albums and videos, and the immersive world of Avatar Country, a fantastical land where metal rules supreme. Today, they have shared the new song\u00a0<strong>&#8220;So Sang the Hollow&#8221;<\/strong>. Listen  below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Avatar - So Sang the Hollow (Visualizer)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Eu73-VMIHDM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;I think the song fits the season,&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>Eckerstr\u00f6m<\/strong>&nbsp;shares. &#8220;<strong>&#8216;So Sang The Hollow&#8217;<\/strong>&nbsp;lives between a dream and our waking nightmares. It&#8217;s like a seance with ghosts of your own creation. It&#8217;s one of those songs that was a very long time in the making, with the main guitar part having been kicked around since I entered the workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">He finishes with an important point, saying, &#8220;It also answers the question what&nbsp;<strong>SIMON AND GARFUNKEL<\/strong>&nbsp;would&#8217;ve sounded like if they grew up listening to&nbsp;<strong>BLACK SABBATH<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Earlier this fall,&nbsp;<strong>AVATAR<\/strong>&nbsp;went big and dropped two new tracks. They shared the official video for&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Going Hunting&#8221;<\/strong>, directed once again by&nbsp;<strong>Johan Carl\u00e9n<\/strong>, alongside the fan track&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Barren Cloth Mother&#8221;<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>AVATAR<\/strong>&nbsp;also previously announced that it signed to&nbsp;<strong>Thirty Tigers<\/strong>&nbsp;and launched its own&nbsp;<strong>Black Waltz Records<\/strong>&nbsp;imprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Two weeks ago,&nbsp;<strong>AVATAR<\/strong>&nbsp;postponed the last five shows on its&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Going Hunting&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;U.S. tour after&nbsp;<strong>Eckerstr\u00f6m<\/strong>&nbsp;tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Those concerts will now take place in late January and early February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AVATAR\u00a0\u2014 comprised of vocalist\u00a0Johannes Eckerstr\u00f6m\u00a0(vocals), guitarists\u00a0Jonas Jarlsby\u00a0and\u00a0Tim \u00d6hrstr\u00f6m, bassist\u00a0Henrik Sandelin\u00a0and drummer\u00a0John Alfredsson\u00a0\u2014 are ambitious rock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87891,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87890\/revisions\/87891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}