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x--daughters-of-darkness--x · 10 months

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AMARANTHE Announces New Vocalist, Shares 'Damnation Flame' Single

Swedish modern metallers AMARANTHE have released a new single, "Damnation Flame". With its symphonic touch and uplifting chorus, the track once again showcases the band's outstanding songwriting skills while maintaining AMARANTHE's status as one of Sweden's most exciting metal exports.

AMARANTHE guitarist Olof Mörck states about the new song: "'Damnation Flame' breaks new ground for us in many ways, and in all the best ways possible. This is the very first AMARANTHE song to feature symphonic elements, something we've wanted to do for a long time, and the darkened vampiric theme melds together perfectly with our take on modern melodic metal!

"AMARANTHE has always been about being boundless and constantly reinventing ourselves, and by now you know to expect the unexpected. This is 100% pure passion poured into music, as you will no doubt experience yourself from the very first second — enjoy 'Damnation Flame', with the promise of much more to come SOON!"

"Damnation Flame" also introduces AMARANTHE's new vocalist Mikael Sehlin to the band's internationally growing fanbase.

Olof continues: "After a practically global search, and several amazing guest growlers to help us out on shows and tours, we finally found just the right person for the job, in our very own Swedish capital of Stockholm! Mikael Sehlin has EVERYTHING it takes to join the AMARANTHE lineup, and his versatility and musicality completes and underscores our vision for our new album and the general future for AMARANTHE perfectly. From the deepest guttural grunts to soaring screams Mikael is growling perfection incarnate, so please give a roaring welcome to the new star upon the AMARANTHE firmament!"

Sehlin himself adds: "Hello everyone, Mike here! I am very thrilled to tell you I will fill the slot as the new AMARANTHE growler and I can't wait to meet you guys out there! I hope you like the upcoming tracks to which I've had the honor recording growls to. Take care and see you soon!"

AMARANTHE has spent more than a decade establishing itself as a formidable, positive and fervently melodic force for metallic good. From their explosive self-titled debut in 2011 to the more sophisticated, streamlined likes of 2014's "Massive Addictive" and its immaculate follow-up "Maximalism" (2016),AMARANTHE have masterfully blurred the lines between melodic metal, crushing brutality, cinematic sweep and futuristic sparkle.

Led by the endlessly ingenious songwriting of guitarist Mörck and powerhouse vocalist Elize Ryd, their rise to prominence has been a joy to behold.

Widely acclaimed as a dazzling live act, the Swedes reached a new peak of creativity on 2018's hugely successful "Helix", an album that pushed the band’s vision to new heights, breadths and depths, while showcasing the brilliance of Elize and her co-vocalist, recent recruit Nils Molin.

Not just a glorious return but a wholesale upgrade for their exuberant sound, their latest offering, 2020's "Manifest", is simply the most daring, dynamic and unforgettable album that AMARANTHE have released to date. The perfect antidote to the nagging anxieties plaguing us all in these troubled times, it's a Technicolor celebration of metal's ageless power, blazing with all of life’s colours and chaos, but delivered with utmost artistry and skill.

AMARANTHE 2023 is:

Elize Ryd - vocals Mikael Sehlin - growls Olof Mörck - guitars, keyboards Johan Andreassen - bass Morten Løwe Sørensen - drums Nils Molin - vocals

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xmystophalesx · 2 years

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Best New Heavy Metal Releases Week of October 14th, 2022

I love weeks like this. Another band that I had written off comes out of nowhere with an incredible album. Another band comes out with an album that throws all my preliminary work on my best of end-of-year list into turmoil. Finally, a band I thought was done, return with arguably the best album of their career. The list is not very long this week, but the quality is off the charts. I will freely admit that there are probably a few albums in the “Standout in their Genre” section that could have made the highlight section. Unfortunately, when an album is released, that makes you reorder your album of the year list, that album is going to get a LOT more of your attention. Friends will already know what that album is as I have been raving about it for the last three days to anyone that is interested and even more people who would prefer I just shut the fuck up about it. For the rest of you reading this, read on to find out my new top spot for the album of the year!

Skid Row-The Gang’s All Here (Heavy/Hard Rock)**

I will start with the band I had completely written off. I am far from the only one that was of the opinion that this band just did not have any magic left. The last album you could arguably consider good was 1995’s “Subhuman Race”. Since then it has been a pretty barren landscape. Well damn, what a difference a new vocalist makes. I can’t say for certain if Eric Gronwall (New Horizon, ex-Raid, ex-H.E.A.T) is all that was needed, but I know this band has not sounded this good in almost 30 years. This album is one catchy Heavy Metal/Hard Rock banger after another. The riffs and leads sound like a new lease on life and the vocals have NEVER sounded this good. Not throwing shade on Sebastian Bach here, but Eric is simply a better vocalist. Do NOT miss this album!

Voidfire-W Cienie (Melodic Black)**

New band to me, but digging a little deeper, I find out there is a connection to the Polish Thrash Metal band Virgin Snatch (Give them a listen as well; they are fantastic!) via drummer Lukasz Sarnacki. You may also know of another band he was in called Christ Agony. What we have here, however, is some incredibly well done Melodic Black Metal in the vein of Dissection. Nothing groundbreaking here, but there is something about this album that draws you in that you can’t really explain. Not everything needs to have a deeper meaning. Sometimes it’s enough to simply have an album that is a great listen from beginning to end and that is exactly what we have here.

Dragonland-The Power of the Nightstar (Progressive Power)**

Olof Mörck may very well be more known for his other band Amaranthe at this point. It is the reason I thought Dragonland was done, as Amaranthe has really taken off over the last decade or so and there hasn’t been a peep from Dragonland since 2011. Well, this release proves pretty emphatically that Dragonland is NOT done and might just be better than ever. This band has always had some really enjoyable album releases, but I always felt they were just a step behind the big names in the genre. This album is the first time I thought they were standing toe to toe with the big boys. The songwriting is top-notch and varied throughout. The added progressive and symphonic elements really blend well on this album and help make it stand out even more. In my humble opinion, I see this album being hands down the best of their career and will bet I am not alone in that thought.

Turbocharged-Alpha Beast, Omega God (Death/Thrash/Punk)**

You want an album that doesn’t require a lot of thought and that is just a blast of Metal goodness from beginning to end? Turbocharged are here to fit that bill perfectly. I am also a big fan of Punk Rock and when you mix that with some fantastic Thrash Metal, I am going to be one happy camper. This band just sounds like they are all about having a good time and really come across on this album. This is all tailor-made for a live performance and I can tell you if this band is anywhere near me, I am 100% all in.

Stormruler-Sacred Rites & Black Magick (Melodic Black)**

I saved the best for last on purpose because I am going to gush about this album. Kvaen-The Great Below has been at the very top of my album of the year list since it came out at the end of March….until last Friday. I usually have a LOT of albums to get through over the weekend so the albums that I think will be a highlight of the week, I make a note of making sure I come back to them. I listened to this album four times in a row and I swear it got better each time. Even as I am writing this and it is playing in the background and the album is giving me goosebumps. I was a fan of their previous album, 2021’s “Under the Burning Eclipse” but as much as I liked that album, this album completely blows that one away and that is saying something as that album is fantastic as well. Through the first listen, I was not a fan of the musical interludes between each song, as I hate the practice of intro tracks. Second time through I just skipped them outright and I will have to admit I was completely wrong. These musical interludes make this album even better. It does a great job of breaking up the sheer ferocity of some of these songs and keeps it from being a wall of sound, which brings me to their use of melody. Their use of melody on this is as good as you are likely to find on any Black Metal album and it isn’t just used in the tremolo riffing, there are straight guitar melody lines throughout and the solos are hands down some of the very best I have heard on any album in the genre. I could go on and on and on about all the things I loved about this record but this is already getting longer than I intended and most people will devote time to read. Suffice it to say, this album is STUNNINGLY good and should not be missed!

That will do it for another week. Listen to that Stormruler album and afterwards buy it at the Napalm Records American store. Hell, buy three or four copies and give it to friends and family whether or not they want it. It really is that damn good. It will take a truly special album to knock Stormruler off the top spot for the album of the year. The thought that my album of the year could be a Black Metal album from St. Louis, Missouri is more than a little surprising. Man, do I ever love the variety and reach of the Heavy Metal musical genre! Until next week, and as always, listen to music and fill your soul with happiness.

BANG THY HEAD!!!

All worthy of a listen if you like the genre

*= standout in that genre

**=best of the week regardless of genre

Best of the Week

Voidfire-W Cienie (Melodic Black)**

Stormruler-Sacred Rites & Black Magick (Melodic Black)**

Dragonland-The Power of the Nightstar (Progressive Power)**

Skid Row-The Gang’s All Here (Heavy/Hard Rock)**

Turbocharged-Alpha Beast, Omega God (Death/Thrash/Punk)**

Standouts in their Genre

Ripped to Shreds-Jubian (Death)*

She Must Burn-Umbra Mortis (Symphonic Deathcore)*

Totemcult-Totemcult (Black)*

Orianthi-Rock Candy (Hard Rock)*

Wildness-Resurrection (Hard Rock/Heavy)*

Riotor-Recrudescence of Darkness (Death/Thrash)*

Thundering Hooves-Radiance (Black)*

Alter Bridge-Pawns and Kings (Hard Rock)*

Ryvendir-Loremaster (Melodic Death/Folk)*

Invernal-L.I.E.S.P.I.T.O.R. (Black)*

Underwill-The Inevitable End (Heavy)*

Jaded Heart-Heart Attack (Heavy/Hard Rock)*

Rhythm of Fear-Fatal Horizons (Thrash/Crossover)*

Innerforce-Arcadia (Heavy/Power)*

Catalyst-A Different Painting for a New World (Technical Death)*

Ninth Sphere-Uriel (Black)*

Vorbid-A Swan by the Edge of Mandala (Thrash/Progressive)*

Azeroth-Senderos del Destino (Power)*

Debler Eternia-Perversso (Power/Folk)*

Firtan-Marter (Black)*

Worth a listen if you enjoy the genre

Althotas-Wooden Torment (Black/Death/Thrash)

Decharot-Vemana (Death/Thrash)

Daeva-Through Sheer Will and Black Magic (Black/Thrash)

Nigromante-Summon the Devil (Heavy)

Lorna Shore-Pain Remains (Symphonic Deathcore)

Evil-Minded-Lucy’s Fate (Heavy)

HeadShot-Eyes of the Guardians (Thrash)

Infiltration-Extinct (Death)

After All-Eos (Thrash)

Amputate-Dawn of Annihilation (Death)

Hydra Vein-Unlamented (Thrash)

Hypnagone-Qu’ll Passe (Progressive)

Sea of Snakes-The Serpent & The Lamb (Stoner)

One stunningly beautiful bulldog deserves one stunningly good album as the Pick of the Week. Stormruler have created that stunningly good album. 5/5 beyond highly recommended!

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Amaranthe с официално видео: „The Catalyst“

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Amaranthe с официално видео: „The Catalyst“

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beginagain-- · 4 months

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Amaranthe Release New Single, 'Re-Vision'

Two weeks into the new year, AMARANTHE, one of Sweden’s most influential modern metal bands, have kicked off 2024 with the crushing pop metal song ‘Re-Vision.’ With its electronic pulse, powerful riffs and irresistibly lethal hooks, the song demonstrates why AMARANTHE are one of the most unique acts in modern metal. AMARANTHE‘s Olof Mörck states:“It is time for the fourth single from The…

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metalindex-hu · 5 months

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Olof Mörck: Az Amaranthe azért van itt, hogy szórakoztasson!

Olof Mörck: Az Amaranthe azért van itt, hogy szórakoztasson! - https://metalindex.hu/2023/11/28/olof-morck-az-amaranthe-azert-van-itt-hogy-szorakoztasson/ -

2024. február 23-án tölti meg a boltok polcait a svéd/dán Amaranthe legújabb albuma, a „The Catalyst”. A modern metalos csapatnak ez már a hetedik nagylemeze lesz, és ígéretük szerint az eddigi legsokszínűbb kiadványt tarthatják kezükben a rajongók, amelyről a Damnation Flame, az Insatiable és az Outer Dimensions című szerzeményeket már hallhattuk.

A napokban Olof Mörck, a zenekar gitárosa adott interjút egy internetes magazinnak, amelyben sok érdekességet megosztott. A zenész úgy érzi: sokkal mélyebb üzenettel bíró dalokat írtak.

A témák változatosságának köszönhetően érettebb lett a zenénk. De azt is mondhatjuk, hogy ez a lemez a „Manifest” folytatása. Ha mindenképpen jellemeznem kéne az új albumot, akkor azt mondanám, hogy a változás a fő témája, amely egyfajta katalizátorként hat. Ettől persze másként látsz dolgokat.

– kezdte sorait, a szóban forgó korongról, amely 2020-ban jelent meg, ITT írtunk kritikát.

Szerintem ez egy életkori sajátosság is. Amikor tinédzser vagy huszonéves vagy, a világ magától értetődő számodra, de ha már megéltél néhány évtizedet, akkor már másképp állsz a dolgokhoz. Láttad, ahogy a világ egy dologból olyanná válik, ami egyértelműen más. És azt hiszem, az ilyen jellegű változások kezelése mindig érdekes, mert sokan hajlamosak vagyunk a negatív aspektusokra fókuszálni, mert ilyenek vagyunk mi, emberek. Úgy lettünk programozva, hogy féljünk a változásoktól. De én azt látom, hogy az a sok változás, amin a világ keresztülment, nagyrészt pozitív dolgokat is hozott. Nem fogok a részletekbe belemenni, mert a politika is benne van, de ha olyan dolgokra akarunk koncentrálni, amelyekben mindenki egyet tud érteni, mint például, hogy sokkal kevesebb az éhezés, az oktatási szint az egész világon magasabb szintre emelkedett. És persze vannak kevésbé jó dolgok is, és azokkal is foglalkozunk az albumon. De vannak, akik sokkal lehangolóbb témákkal foglalkoznak, mi pedig azért vagyunk itt, hogy felemeljük az embereket és szórakoztassuk őket.

– zárta sorait.

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DragonForce & Amaranthe

Am Samstag, 16. März 2024 stürmen DragonForce, Amaranthe und Special Guest Infected Rain die Bühne im Komplex 457 für einen unvergesslichen Abend. Tickets via ticketcorner.ch erhältlich. Nach einer unglaublich erfolgreichen Tour durch die USA gab es für die amerikanische Power Metal-Ikonen DragonForce und die schwedischen Metal-Virtuos:innen Amaranthe keinen Zweifel: Das Package muss Europa erobern. Zusammen mit Special Guest Infected Rain erwartet die Schweiz ein Line-up, das sich gewaschen hat. Herman Li von DragonForce sagt: «Wir sind total aufgeregt, mit Amaranthe auf diese Co-Headliner Tour durch Europa zu gehen. Ich habe Amaranthe seit ihren Anfängen stets bewundert und tue es immer noch. Wir beide haben die grössten Alben aller Zeiten in Peto, diese Tour wird unseren Fans ein unvergleichliches Erlebnis bieten. Macht euch auf eine episch-musikalische Reise gefasst!» Olof Mörck von Amaranthe: «Wir sind schon fast bedenklich fest aufgeregt, die Co-Headliner Tour durch Europa mit unseren guten Freunden von DragonForce anzukünden. Obendrein präsentieren wir auf dieser Tour auch zum ersten Mal unser kommendes Album The Catalyst! Diese Tour wird der absolute Wahnsinn, eine brandneue Show, neue Setlist, ein ganz neues Album; diesen Abend wollt ihr euch nicht entgehen lassen!» Tickets für dieses gewaltige musikalische Spektakel am Samstag, 16. März 2024 im Komplex 457 gibt es via Ticketcorner.ch. Quelle: Good News Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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DRAGONLAND（ドラゴンランド）新曲「The Power of the Nightstar」のミュージックビデオを公開

DRAGONLAND（ドラゴンランド）新作情報『THE POWER OF THE NIGHTSTAR』

スウェーデンのパワーメタル・バンド、DRAGONLAND（ドラゴンランド）が新曲「The Power of the Nightstar」のミュージックビデオを公開しました。この曲は海外で2022年10月14日リリース予定の11年ぶりのニューアルバムに収録されます。バンドはファーストシングル「Get in the Ring」について以下のコメントをしています。「近日発売予定のアルバムのほんの一部をついに公開できて感激している。この爆発的なトラックは、ストーリーラインの中心であり、主人公たちのターニングポイントを提示し、その新しい発見は、高揚するコーラスで表現されています。」 DRAGONLAND（ドラゴンランド）メンバー Jonas Heidgert – Vocals Olof Mörck – Guitars/Violin Elias Holmlid –…

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“We knew if we stuck together, we would create great things.” Amaranthe have three vocalists and make music that resembles ABBA on a bloodthirsty rampage. They might just be the most extra band in heavy metal

Swedish metallers Amaranthe open up on a career - and a sound - like no other

Amaranthe’s Elize Ryd and Olof Mörck can clearly remember the night they met. It was 2005 during an evening at Gothenburg’s now-defunct Diamond Dogs rock bar. At the time, Elize was an aspiring singer who had sung on a track by local band Falconer, catching the attention of Olof, who was making a name for himself as the guitarist in power metal band Dragonland. That night, they talked about the bands they loved for hours, discussed the universe and watched the stars. By the end of the night, they’d struck up what Elize describes today as a “spiritual” connection.

“We just knew, if we stuck together, we would create great things.” That’s exactly what they did. Since releasing their self-titled debut in 2011, Amaranthe have become one of the hardest-working bands in metal, releasing six albums and touring incessantly. And in that time, they’ve established themselves as one of power metal’s most OTT operators, with three bombastic vocalists backed by an undeniably divisive blend of death metal, power metal, pop and electronica, resembling ABBA on a bloodthirsty rampage.

The band’s seventh album, The Catalyst, might be their most audacious yet. While the band have often, lazily, been lumped in with symphonic metal – no doubt due to the presence of a female singer – for the first time, this record sees them lean into that genre’s splashy inclinations. It’s also their most conceptual release, delving into themes of transformation. Veering from the abstract to the unflinchingly literal, the 12 tracks breathlessly explore everything from climate change to Artificial Intelligence to vampire transformation (see grandiose single Damnation Flame and its bloodthirsty video). On paper, it reads like the band chucked ‘change’ into a word cloud. On record, it’s a fizzy, bombastic riot.

“Maybe it’s our most dynamic and brave record,” chuckles Elize over Zoom. “But it was also fun. We always made jokes that Olof is a vampire because he’s never aged.” Born in Sweden, pop music is in Elize’s bones. Outside Amaranthe, she co-writes songs for Finnish pop band Cyan Kicks, while any song on The Catalyst could easily own the stage at Eurovision – in particular, Outer Dimensions riffs off the vocal melody of ABBA’s S.O.S. While Olof handles Amaranthe’s arrangements and lead guitars, and they write the lyrics together, she is in charge of the ‘toplines’, the hooks and melodies that define the band’s gleaming sound.

“There was nothing else like Amaranthe,” she insists of the moment they emerged, sticking out like a sore thumb, in the late 2000s. “And today, I’m not sure actually if there is.” Elize was introduced to metal by her older brother and long-time Metallica fan, Johan Carlzon, a “local celebrity” due to his renowned growls as vocalist in local doom band Abandon. It was Johan who encouraged Elize to pursue a career in metal, although he never got the chance to hear her sing as part of Amaranthe: he passed away at the age of 32, following an overdose. At that time, Olof was struggling with his own grief, having lost his father. Looking back, Elize sees how their mutual pain brought them together as friends and artists.

“It helped to write more of the uplifting stuff, to push ourselves,” she explains. Writing songs, she says, was a way for her and Olof to heal, as well as keeping her brother’s memory alive. To this day, they’ve never had an argument. “We’ve always found comfort and peace with each other. That’s why it can’t be broken or taken away, because it’s an organic thing. It comes from a very real place."

Holed up during the pandemic in 2020 and unable to tour, the duo started throwing around concepts for what would eventually become The Catalyst, landing on issues that had been niggling on Elize’s mind, including the lasting effects of Covid on society, the looming shadow of worsening climate change and the impact of the rise of AI on creative industries. While the recording of the album was way underway by the time Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the ensuing war has only compounded her sense of helplessness in the face of a world shifting on its axis.

“The album is not so much focused on the political, but more about the emotional aspect,” she says. “Even though the world is changing, how can you try to cope with it?” Watching the Ukraine war from afar has taken a toll: “I actually know people from Ukraine personally, so everything feels, for me, very close.” Yet that same attitude that first bonded her and Olof shines through in the music: “Love always wins over hate.”

From the beginning, Olof Mörck wanted Amaranthe to “provoke”. “When it comes to metal, fans are enormously conservative,” he says, when we speak to him on a separate Zoom call just before Christmas. Having wrapped up band business for the year, he chats to us from his Gothenburg home while gingerbread bakes in his kitchen. He remembers it being harder to cross boundaries during the band’s early days. “In 2008, it was infrequent for bigger metal bands to even have melodic choruses. There was a certain stigma to having really catchy hooks and that’s something that we challenged.”

In 2005, he was working a day job as a kindergarten teacher, but had released three albums with his power metal band, Dragonland. “I had gotten into law school... then we went to Japan with Dragonland and we got to headline this really cool festival and play in front of thousands of screaming Japanese fans,” he says with a chuckle. “It was the last nail in the coffin, like, ‘OK, let’s drop all the back-up plans.’ The trip to Japan was a total catalyst for me, for getting a kick in the right direction.”

Having grown up in Gothenburg during the city’s mid-90s melodeath boom, he had joined power metallers Dragonland in 1999, a band he’s still a studio member of now, although Amaranthe keeps him too busy to tour. But by the time he met Elize, he had envisioned a new band, one that blended pop gloss with power and death metal riffs, and had begun to flesh out ideas. He’s keen to stress, though, that Amaranthe are not “his” band.

“It was really only when I started to write music with Elize that the pop elements became good,” he says. “It went from zero to 10 as soon as she was involved in it.” What does the title of The Catalyst mean to him? “I think we are, as a collective species, going through a very transformative era right now in a lot of different ways, and a lot of them are not necessarily that positive,” he explains.

He reaches for AI as an example. "Fifty years ago they were dreaming about a future where robots would do the chores and we’d be free to focus on artistic things, but lately it has proven to be the opposite. You have AI producing art and music while you have a human still doing the same chores that we did 50 years ago.”

Sonically, he describes The Catalyst as the band’s “most eclectic and diverse” album yet – quite a statement in a discography where every album has actively tried to leapfrog the record before it in terms of excess. “There’s some 80s, retro, cyber punk vibes on a couple of songs,” he says. “There are even some almost Gaelic folk music influences here and there. It’s not about limiting yourself, it’s about finding the path forward.”

Last year, Amaranthe played the main stage at Wacken Open Air in Germany, a place tantamount to holy ground as far as Olof is concerned. “That’s been a lifelong dream,” he says. “We played there twice before on significantly smaller stages.” During the lavish track Amaranthine, he was struck by the magnitude of the occasion. “You see 40,000 or 50,000 people waving their hands while you’re in the middle playing this guitar solo...” He smiles, describing the memory as an “ego moment”, but also validation of how far the band have come.

Now their focus is on taking it further. When asked separately what the band have left to achieve, Elize and Olof’s answers are strikingly similar, citing collaborations with live orchestras (The Catalyst’s flirtations with symphonic metal are all via samples), and even, in a full 360 ̊ turn, an acoustic album. “I have so many dreams,” smiles Elize. “Something that we’re going to do now with The Catalyst tour, is more stage props, bigger production, more lights,” enthuses Olof, who cites the epic, battle-themed live show of fellow Swedes Sabaton as an inspiration. “In the future, lasers, more pyrotechnics...”

What they won’t do is change their genre-mashing sound, a product of that finger-up-to-the-purists mentality that has propelled them forward for almost two decades. It’s that attitude, Olof says, that has secured Amaranthe hard-won acceptance in the metal scene.

“We’ve always been outsiders in a way,” he considers. “With us still always trying to challenge conservatism and so on, I think it’s become much more obvious where Amaranthe belong as a band. People now feel more comfortable with listening to us and saying that they’re an Amaranthe fan.”

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AMARANTHE Release New Single 'Re-Vision' from Upcoming Album

Two weeks into the new year, AMARANTHE, one of Sweden’s most influential modern metal bands, kicks off 2024 with the crushing pop metal song ‘Re-Vision.’ With its electronic pulse, powerful riffs and irresistibly lethal hooks in the chorus, the song demonstrates why AMARANTHE are one of the most unique acts in modern metal. AMARANTHE’s Olof Mörck states:“It is time for the fourth single from The…

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x--daughters-of-darkness--x · 9 months

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AMARANTHE To Release 'The Catalyst' Album Next February

Swedish melodic metallers AMARANTHE will release their new album, "The Catalyst", on February 23, 2024 via Nuclear Blast Records. The effort will be made available digitally and in different physical formats, including CD, vinyl and a 2CD special edition.

AMARANTHE guitar player Olof Mörck said in a statement: "So at last it is official! This has been a long time in the making, and more effort went into this album than any previous AMARANTHE record. You have already gotten a taste of what’s to come on 'Damnation Flame', but as the most varied and eclectic AMARANTHE album to date, expect the unexpected! We cover a lot of musical ground on 'The Catalyst', but the core of what we are about creatively is completely intact. It will be immediately obvious that you are listening to AMARANTHE, as much as it will be immediately obvious that this is both a leap forward as well as a step up. Can't wait for all of you to hear what we have been cooking, as well as seeing us perform these pristine new songs on the road SOON!"

"The Catalyst" is the most conceptually coherent piece of work in AMARANTHE's storied history. Dedicated to notions of transformation and revelation, it delves deeper than any previous album, as Mörck explains.

"We've done these things before, but we've never been as theatrical as we have this time," he says. "In fact, we all questioned whether we went too far this time, but I also figured that this band was always this way. Literally the first seconds of our first video was a big explosion! But yes, 'The Catalyst' is more theatrical than ever. We've never really been symphonic or orchestral before, but this time we just thought why not? Because we can! The key to this album is that we let go of the boundaries and decided to do something even more adventurous."

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