By:
Aaron Pickford
Leif Edling's involvement in any doom project is
bound to bring excitement with it, indeed rewind back to 2013 and AVATARIUM was
born. Unleashing their critically lauded debut ‘Avatarium’
to the masses in November of the same year and lauded by this very website as one of the finest
doom releases of the year, AVATARIUM are back with their latest doom filled offering, which was
released to the masses last week. Entitled
‘The
Girl With The Raven Mask’ Bassist Leif Edling had this to say about the result:
“Think
we have created something unique this time with AVATARIUM! The songs are more written to be just
songs and there are some really nice moments on the record that I personally
love… the straight forward title track, the beautiful ‘January Sea’, the riff
in ‘Ghostlight’ and the groove in ‘Run Killer Run’. The organ and the Rhodes
piano are ridiculously loud in the mix at times, even Dr. Carl agrees hehe, but
i think it gives even more edge to the songs! I hope people will dig »The
Girl With The Raven Mask« as much as I do myself, and if they don’t, it’s
their problem. A band can’t deliver more than we have done here, so it is an
album close to perfection! When an album is perfect…shoot me!“
With
band set to hit the road for a 12 date European Tour, kicking off on 18 November
2015, AVATARIUM will play their first UK show at The Underworld in Camden on November
22nd, supported by The
Vintage Caravan. Today it gives us great pleasure to present The Sludgelord Exclusive interview, we spoke
with guitarist Marcus Jidell about the new album, which you can view below
