{"id":89087,"date":"2021-12-31T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=89087"},"modified":"2021-12-31T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T17:05:05","slug":"avatar-debut-new-single-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=89087","title":{"rendered":"AVATAR &#8211; Debut New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Swedish metal band\u00a0<strong>AVATAR<\/strong>\u00a0have unleashed a new song,\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Cruel And Unusual&#8221;<\/strong>. Listen down below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;It feels self-evident,&#8221; the band states about the track. &#8220;Violent thoughts channeled through violent riffs, demented thoughts driven by a sick groove. It&#8217;s simply a very sexy song.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cruel and Unusual\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ogbg8RmptpQ?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\"><strong>AVATAR<\/strong> also previously announced they signed to\u00a0<strong>Thirty Tigers<\/strong>\u00a0and have launched their own\u00a0<strong>Black Waltz Records<\/strong>\u00a0imprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In October,&nbsp;<strong>AVATAR<\/strong>&nbsp;postponed the last five shows on its&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Going Hunting&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;U.S. tour after vocalist&nbsp;<strong>Johannes 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\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Last year,&nbsp;<strong>AVATAR<\/strong>&nbsp;frontman&nbsp;<strong>Johannes Eckerstr\u00f6m<\/strong>&nbsp;spoke to&nbsp;<strong>Consequence<\/strong>&nbsp;about the band&#8217;s eighth studio album,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Hunter Gatherer&#8221;<\/strong>, and how the group&#8217;s music is changing with age. &#8220;When you are dealing with anger and darkness in your 30s and want to be honest with it, and whatever angst that you carry with you as an adult compared to a teenager is a different way of dealing with it and articulating it, which makes this album very serious, and in that aspect, every album is an attempt to be as frank and honest as we can be,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just that with every album, another layer of the onion is peeled off, so this is another deep level of honestly, as far as I&#8217;m concerned. One of the coolest things with doing this and working certain songs on each album is that each song has something in them where I&#8217;m, like, I wouldn&#8217;t have been comfortable to say it like that when I was this age or that age. We have eight layers and albums done, so two more, and we will somehow be complete human beings, I guess.&#8221;<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish metal band\u00a0AVATAR\u00a0have unleashed a new song,\u00a0&#8220;Cruel And Unusual&#8221;. 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