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Avatar Announce Unique 4-Part Concert Series In January 2021

Avatar Ages - An Impossible Concert Experience To Feature Full

Album Performance Of Hunter Gatherer, As Well As Multiple,

Fan-Selected Set Lists With Songs From Hail The Apocalypse, Black Waltz & More! TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT AVATARAGES.COM WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: https://youtu.be/nvDjdHxK6Ns http://www.avatarages.com http://www.avatarages.com http://www.avatarages.com http://www.avatarages.com http://www.avatarages.com Sweden’s most creative and yours. This is something we’ll create Hometown Rising, Louder Than Life, exciting export, AVATAR, have an- together. We have missed you.” Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, and nounced a series of concert streams — Welcome To Rockville. Avatar Ages - An Impossible Concert Concert stream tickets are availExperience—that will take place over the able for individual shows and as a 4- AVATAR’s current album Hunter course of January 2021. The 4-part show package. Various ticket bundles are Gatherer, out now via eOne, marked the concert film experience launches January also available, offering exclusive darkest and most thought-provoking 9 and will feature songs from AVATAR’s merchandise such as t-shirts, hoodies, release of the band’s over decade long celebrated catalog, starting with a vinyl, and a commemorative laminate. A career. A striking and bold manifesto, the performance of their latest album in full, limited number of exclusive virtual Meet album is an unflinchingly ruthless study Hunter Gatherer, out now via eOne. The & Greets with the entire band are also of a clueless humankind’s ever-increassubsequent January concerts will feature available. Fans will be able to select ing velocity into an uncertain future, fan voted set lists—chosen by ticket their date and time period in advance, furthering the reach of the band’s always purchasers—with songs from Avatar and after their personal Meet & Greet, expanding dark roots. The band’s Country, Feathers & Flesh, Hail The they’ll receive a video file of their ambitious new era found the band Apocalypse, Black Waltz, Thoughts of No conversation, as well as the opportunity featured as the cover story of Revolver Tomorrow, Schlacht and Avatar. to take pictures during the experience. Magazine’s Fall Issue, where frontman Visit www.AvatarAges.com for all Johannes Eckerström reflects about the The schedule of Avatar Ages - An details and to purchase tickets. power of live performance during a year Impossible Concert Experience concert that has changed the landscape of live stream events is as follows: Each livestream debuts on its music. In 2019, AVATAR reunited with respective date at 1:00 PM Pacific / 4:00 producer Jay Ruston (Stone Sour, Saturday, January 9 – Age of PM Eastern / 10:00 PM CET remains on- Anthrax) at Sphere Studios in Los Dreams (Hunter Gatherer from start to demand for 72 hours. Angeles, California, where the foundafinish plus Avatars biggest songs) tion for each song on Hunter Gatherer Saturday, January 16 – Age of Fan voting for the Age of Illusions, was laid with the band performing Illusions (Feathers & Flesh and Avatar Age of Madness and Age of Memories altogether, as they’d done only once Country fan voted set list) concert stream set lists will be open to before, on Hail the Apocalypse (2014). Saturday, January 23 – Age of ticket purchasers through December 3, The old-school method of playing as one Madness (Black Waltz and Hail the 2020 at 11:59 PM ET. Fans will be in the studio, more akin to how they are Apocalypse fan voted set list) emailed a link to activate fan voting after on stage, captured the essence of Saturday, January 30 – Age of purchasing their virtual concert ticket. AVATAR. Recorded entirely to two-inch Memories (Thoughts of No Tomorrow, Purchasers will be able to choose their tape, Hunter Gatherer exhibits everySchlacht and Avatar fan voted set list) 10 favorite songs for each set list and thing that makes AVATAR standouts in submit directly to the band. Fan voting the vast, rich landscape of heavy metal’s About the performances, frontman is only open to those who purchase a past and present. Johannes Eckerström says, “Nothing can livestream ticket or bundle. top the feeling of standing eye to eye “Heavy as all hell and unflinching with the roaring beast that is a metal DWP recently entered the digital in its biting social commentary.” crowd, hungry for blood. Instead, what content curation space, promoting pay- Revolver we are setting out to do is a series of per-view concert streams and creating shows we could never do on a normal the popular digital series Offstage with “Even when the world is turned stage. You will see Avatar as you’ve DWP. DWP is known worldwide for upside down, we can count on Avatar to never seen us before. More music, more their stellar portfolio of music and churn out an opus of groovy, melodic madness. We enter this with a game plan lifestyle events, which includes Afterlike no other, but ultimately the power is shock, Bourbon & Beyond, Epicenter, continued on next page December 2020 • Rock and Blues International 41

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continued from previous page metal that sings and soars.” - Conse- snarling growls.” - The Pit quence of Sound “Always fixated on a sense of wheel as they went from lighthearted groove whether it’s quick-hitting, sharp humor with Avatar Country to dark and and choppy riffs or pendulum-swinging bleak with their upcoming album” breakdowns over which maestro Metal Insider Johannes Eckerström presides with his furious four-and-a-half minute blaze of Öhrström.” - Guitar World includes blazing guitar riffs and “Avatar continues to reinvent the snarling, guttural roar.” - Loudwire “If Avatar is out to do anything with its in-your-face music, it’s hoping to “Avatar are back and they are be true to its namesake as that not-soheavier than ever.” - Metal Injection subtle teacher, helping fans open up to “Silence in the Age of Apes a LiveKindly machine-gun-style kick drumming, Avatar is: Johannes Eckerström powerful chant vocals and guitar work to Vocals / John Alfredsson - Drums / marvel aplenty courtesy of resident Henrik Sandelin - Bass / Jonas Jarlsby axemen Jonas “Kungen” Jarlsby and Tim Guitars / Tim Öhrström - Guitars “Abundant, as always, the song Twitter | YouTube | Spotify another possible way of being.” Website | Facebook | Instagram | frontman Johannes Eckerström’s brutal, About AVATAR: Through ambi42 Rock and Blues International • December 2020 tious compositions and vibrant visual storytelling AVATAR seamlessly blurs the line between sights and sounds. AVATAR songs are new anthems for the ages, precision heat-seeking missiles targeting a cultural landscape ready for fresh songs to champion from a band with a giant persona to rally behind. The AVATAR experience is challenging, daring, and altogether captivating. The band’s latest addition to their celebrated catalog, out now via eOne, Hunter Gatherer is an expression of meticulous structure and creative force. While it is a large departure from what carved the landscape of Avatar Country, the sound direction on the new record pushes past previous boundaries and showcases the genuine compositional writing talent that the band possesses, all while reflecting AVATAR’s core elements. The band spent the majority of 2019 touring heavily worldwide. Including sold out headlining shows in Europe, sold out headlining shows in US and Canada (with Devin Townsend and ‘68), sold out support tour for Baby Metal in North America, festival appearances such as Domination Mexico, sharing the stage with Slipknot at the Festival De Nimes, Alcatraz Hard Rock & Metal Festival.

About Danny Wimmer Presents: Since 1993, music industry veteran Danny Wimmer has been producing concerts and festivals, both large and small. In 2011, he formed Danny Wimmer Presents, which now produces several of the largest rock and alternative festivals in the U.S. By combining A-list talent with local cuisine and culture, DWP has become recognized within the industry for delivering the highestquality entertainment experiences to fans, artists, sponsors, partners and host cities. DWP creates memorable and allencompassing festival experiences, leaving both consumers and partners with lasting and meaningful impressions. DWP will continue to add new music festivals to its already stellar portfolio, which currently includes Aftershock, Bourbon & Beyond, Epicenter, Hometown Rising, Louder Than Life, Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, and Welcome To Rockville. Previous DWP festivals include Rock On The Range, Carolina Rebellion, Northern Invasion and more. In 2020, DWP launched the popular digital series Offstage with DWP and ventured into the digital content curation space, promoting pay-per-view live streams.