AVATARIUM Release Second Studio Album ‘The Girl With The Raven Mask’
October 23rd, 2015
Swedish metal band Avatarium, whose line-up includes Candlemass bassist and founding member Leif Edling, issued second full-length studio album The Girl With The Raven Mask on October 23rd, 2015 through Nuclear Blast Records.
The track listing is as follows;
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01. ‘Girl With The Raven Mask’
02. ‘The January Sea’
03. ‘Pearls And Coffins’
04. ‘Hypnotized’
05. ‘Ghostlight’
06. ‘Run Killer Run’
07. ‘Iron Mule’
08. ‘The Master Thief’
Digipack version bonus DVD (live at Hammer Of Doom festival in 2014):
01. ‘Moonhorse’
02. ‘Bird Of Prey’
03. ‘All I Want’
04. ‘Tides Of Telepathy’
05. ‘Deep Well’
06. ‘Pandora’s Egg’
07. ‘Avatarium’
A music video was filmed for the track ‘Pearls And Coffins’, which can be viewed below.
The video was filmed in Stockholm at Södra Teatern and Stora Vika, directed by Johan Bååth and produced by Robert Lundmark and Magnus Johansson from Bobin Film. Lundmark was also responsible for the editing.
“When I first heard ‘Pearls And Coffins’ the vulnerable beauty and violent darkness of the song really struck me,” commented Bååth. “Machine guns and soulless fashion, I pictured a cold war-like dystopian concrete dream world from another time in the past. When everything is lost, you let your deepest inner emotional feelings out, no matter how dark they appear.
“The fascination for and showing violence is always tricky and it will and should always affect you and make you think twice. I feel that the video and the lyrics are about our deeper, darker corners inside our human mind and in our hearts of momentary darkness, where violence might set seed and may grow. Showing the shoot-out was meant as a personal metaphor for just that and of course not to encourage violence in any way, shape or form.
“Before making this video I was in close contact with my friend and filmmaker Jonas Åkerlund and his wife and stylist Bea Åkerlund and we agreed to make Jennie-Ann really stand out as a flawless post war-lipstick killer and a femme fatale. Bea recommended an upcoming Swedish fashion stylist: Christopher Insulander who is really cool and innovative in a way that would make a huge difference in the appearance of especially Jennie’s look and outfit. I truly think his work and creation is a piece of art that really makes the video look amazing and really stand out as something different for time to come.”
An official lyric video was created for the title track as well as the song ‘Hypnotized’.
Both clips can also be viewed below.
Debut studio record Avatarium was released in October 2013.
