AVATAR

Melodic Death Metal / Alternative Metal • Sweden
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Formed in 2001, Avatar is a metal band from from Gothenburg, Sweden. They don’t fit comfortably in a single genre although their early releases are considered to be melodic death metal but more recently they have ventured into alternative metal.
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AVATAR Thoughts Of No Tomorrow album cover 3.33 | 3 ratings
Thoughts Of No Tomorrow
Melodic Death Metal 2006
AVATAR Schlacht album cover 3.83 | 3 ratings
Schlacht
Melodic Death Metal 2007
AVATAR Avatar album cover 4.38 | 4 ratings
Avatar
Melodic Death Metal 2009
AVATAR Black Waltz album cover 4.17 | 6 ratings
Black Waltz
Melodic Death Metal 2012
AVATAR Hail The Apocalypse album cover 4.00 | 5 ratings
Hail The Apocalypse
Melodic Death Metal 2014
AVATAR Feathers & Flesh album cover 4.20 | 5 ratings
Feathers & Flesh
Alternative Metal 2016
AVATAR Avatar Country album cover 3.50 | 6 ratings
Avatar Country
Alternative Metal 2018
AVATAR Hunter Gatherer album cover 4.00 | 3 ratings
Hunter Gatherer
Alternative Metal 2020

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AVATAR Black Waltz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Black Waltz
Melodic Death Metal 2011

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AVATAR Personal Observations album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Personal Observations
Melodic Death Metal 2004
AVATAR 4 Reasons To Die album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
4 Reasons To Die
Melodic Death Metal 2004

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My Shining Star
Melodic Death Metal 2005
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And I Bid You Farewell
Melodic Death Metal 2005
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The Great Pretender
Melodic Death Metal 2009
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Hail The Apocalypse
Alternative Metal 2014
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Bloody Angel
Alternative Metal 2014
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For The Swarm
Alternative Metal 2016

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AVATAR Hunter Gatherer

Album · 2020 · Alternative Metal
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Kev Rowland
One never knows what one is going to get with Avatar, as while they may have started life as yet another Swedish death metal act, they have broadened their horizons greatly since then. Their last album, 2018’s ‘Avatar Country’ was the second-largest independent album in North America upon its debut, reaching #4 (Hard Music Albums), # 8 (Rock Albums), and #25 (Billboard 200 Current Albums) with one major rock outlet even declaring it a heavy metal ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’. While I can never see myself going that far, there is no doubt there is something both strange and compelling about their music.

In 2020 they released their eighth studio album, ‘Hunter Gatherer’, which saw them record with all of them playing in the studio together as if they were onstage, and then putting it down on two-inch tape. When they go for it they really hit hard, but in “A Secret Door” we get groove/death metal along with Roger Whittaker-style whistling, guitars being played like mandolins, huge riffs and hooks which sees them move into the likes of Linkin Park. It is commercial but given what they are doing it really shouldn’t, as there is no way this mess should work, yet it does. Some bands have tried to move out of the Swedish death scene and failed miserably, yet these guys really have managed to bring something together which is mixing loads of many styles and somehow having it all make total sense while also never really settling. One never knows what is going to happen next as they can be in full flight and then drop into some keyboards or just blast along and never change, coming across more as power metal than anything else, but always with a heavy bottom end. Fans of the band have become used to never knowing what each album is going to sound like, and while I cannot speak for the whole of the back catalogue I can see that this one is worth checking out as it brings together nu metal, groove metal, melodic death, industrial, and the kitchen sink.

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