| 2008 2008 08 11 - Concert added Avatar will participate as headlining act in Wintertuhr / Zurich, Switzerland, Sep 5. For more info, see Tour section. 2008 06 26 - Thank you GOTHENBURG! THANK YOU everyone in the audience on Metaltown June 27.. we know that we said that the September concert will be the one and only this year - but when Metaltown phoned us and asked if we could replace Job For A Cowboy within 2 hours we just couldn't say no - AND YOU ROCKED! Thanks! Don't miss the September show - tickets on sale here! 2008 06 26 - Stockholm show added! We said our local supporters in our hometown Gothenburg has waited long enough (almost a year).. but - our supporters in Stockholm has never been able to watch a headline concert with Avatar before. And now the time has come! On September 27th we will tear down Nalen Alcazar with support from Stockholms finest - Degradead! Book your tickets here! 2008 06 12 - Avatar to play Gothenburg!! Our local supporters have waited long enough! We have finally booked a show in our home town. The carnage will take place at Stena Arena, Brew House on September 26. Support on the show will be announced soon. There will be no age limit for the show (18 years at the bar). This will be our only show in Gothenburg in 2008 so don't miss it! Book your tickets here! 2008 06 04 - Sweden rock and TV4! Hey! Would just like to inform you who are going to attend our concert at Sweden Rock tomorrow that the concert starts @ 20.45 and not 21.30 as written in the programs! So now you will have time to watch both us and At The Gates!!! See you tomorrow! Och vi som förstår svenska - vilket band håller Melker & Mattias från Rundgång som sina upcoming favoriter? För att ta reda på det - kolla vid 3.30 här ;) 2008 05 15 - New gig confirmed, old one cancelled Hey yo! We will headline Viksholmsfestivalen in Arvika on Friday, May 23. It'll be the first show we've done in a little while so you'll see a very hungry and pissed off band! Sadly we also have to cancel one show, Sundsvalls gatufest. As always, it's out of our control. We don't turn down gigs! Also - we are now presenting the exact festival dates on our website. Cheers! 2008 05 09 - The best crew in the world!!! The massive effort made by the Avatar Crew has resulted in a wide spread of Avatar on the Internet. For this reason we have updated our link page with pages where we are featured. Check it out, so you know where to find the band on the web! If you're interested in joining the crew, follow THIS link and let us know! Also, since most of the band contacts now are done through MySpace we have decided to move our guestbook to there! In other news: Our show on Sweden Rock Festival has been scheduled to take place on June 5 at 20:45. See you there! Cheers! 2008 04 16 - New AvatarTV Episode and new Myspace! Well hello, you little bastards. How's it going these days? We're doing some secret stuff at the moment which will be revealed in upcoming AvatarTV episodes. The news of the day 'though are that the Myspace page has been going through a bit of a make over. Among other things, the song As It Is is online together with War Song. We have also finally been able to get Episode 5 of AvatarTV online, with footage from Texas and the concert with Megadeth! Enjoy! 2008 04 08 - Avatar Crew online, Summer festivals Attention! The new Avatar Crew is online! It has now transformed into an organization for the most dedicated and ambitious fans. It will be on Avatar Crew's agenda to spread the word and with action support Avatar's work. We welcome You, who want to keep the music alive and who want to make a difference. Check out www.avatarcrew.com for more info about becoming a member and the Crew! Also, we are proud to present the Swedish summer festival schedule in it's full! Check out the Live section! Cheers! 2008 03 10 - Free ringtones and new pictures Hey listen up! We've got some neat pictures online from the tour. Live stuff from Lyon it is. Check it out in the Gallery! We've also got ringtones online for you to download for free. Take a look at Media > EXTRAS and you'll find it. 2008 02 26 - Swedish shows booked Finally!!! It's time for Avatar to hit the stages in Sweden again! We'll play some shows this spring followed by lots of festivals, big and small, this summer! Check out the tour-section for the first confirmed dates! Cheers! 2008 02 22 - New live pictures online and computer trouble Hey yo! The good news are that we've got some super awesome pictures online from our show with Megadeth last week. The bad news are that all of you who have joined our mailing list since August have been deleted from our data base, due to some spooky computer error. If you are one of those 1500 who joined between August and today, please join again to get the latest news from the band and their doings. Also - do not forget to check our last episode of AvatarTV from the European tour out.. see below. Cheers! 2008 01 26 - Avatar opens for Megadeth - AND goes to the US Hell yeah! We've been confirmed as the main support act for Megadeth on February 6 on Arenan in Stockholm! Be there! We are also booked to play at the biggest music expo in the world, South by southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. This will be on March 14. Cheers and love and remember to follow us on tour on Avatartube (new episode online today)! 2008 01 10 - Avatar TV from Obituary tour online Hey hey hey! We've finally been able to put up the first part of our video diary on avatartube! Check it out! We'll put up as much as technology allows us to during the rest of the tour together with Obituary, so keep yourself updated. Click the Youtube banner to the right! Cheers! 2008 01 04 - New song online Hey hey hey! The soon to be billboard number one, evergreen super hit "4 am Breakdown" is now online on myspace. Check it out to hear another reason to buy our album! Cheers! 2007 2007 12 17 - Avatar confirmed for Arvikafestivalen + jeans endorsement We are now being endorsed by Dr Denim jeans! A kick ass Gothenburg brand it is! Check them out. It is now also officialy confirmed that we will play on Arvikafestivalen! The summer is really shaping up nicely. There are some more dates going on, but we can't say anything for sure yet. A friendly reminder: Have you already voted for us in the Swedish Metal Awards? Do it again! Click here! Cheers and a merry christmas to you all! 2007 12 07 - Avatar nominated for Swedish Metal Awards We've got a nomination for the best newcomers of 2007! Please support us by clicking HERE and vote for us! You're support is as needed as always! Cheers! 2007 12 04 - Video for Schlacht Hey there, fans and foes! How is the winter treating you? We've finished our first music video for the title track Schlacht and we want you all to check it out and spread it like hell! It's a damn heavy video.. Check it out above or download a better version in the media section. Cheers! 2007 11 27 - New T-shirt and festival! We have been confirmed to play on Sweden Rock Festival this summer! Buy a stunning new "Schlacht"-T-shirt to celebrate and sacrifice a virgin goat (hard to find these days) for some good weather. More festivals and Swedish dates to come! Cheers! 2007 11 07 - Schlacht on the Swedish charts! Hey would you look at that! We've made it quite a bit up on the charts: 2nd on the hard rock/metal charts, 3rd on the Gothenburg charts and 27th on the national album charts - 7 resp. 9 positions before Helloween and Serj Tankian! Thank you to all who still believe in the album format and in supporting the music they like! You rock! Cheers! 2007 10 30 - ... regarding the Malmö and Jönköping signing session We'd like to apologize for the fans that went to our planned signing session at Skivlagret last Saturday. Due to a major communication flaw between the store director (läs: i-d-i-o-t) and us we were told to cancel the session. Neither we or any employee at Skivlagret, as well as the company itself - except this earlier mentioned "director" - is responsible for the cancellation. We are very sorry and also dissapointed since we love to meet and greet you guys. We hope that there'll be a chance to make it all up to you. Let's stick to Skivlagret: The signing session in Jönköping WILL NOT be cancelled - I put my left arm on that one! But it's been moved to this Saturday 13.00-14.00 instead of Friday as earlier announced! Cheers and love / Avatar 2007 10 25 - New website up! Isn't it the cutiest thing you've ever seen?! New album and a new homepage with new features for your desktop and some dowloads. Surf around and enjoy it with Schlacht turned up loud! Gothenburg metalheads - there will be tickets on sale on the door for the release party this friday! Make sure to be there in time (19.00). Cheers! 2007 10 03 - Help Avatar to the top of the radio charts! SWEDISH FANS - Hey hey hey (If you haven't got it yet, it's a Crusty quote)! We need your help to get air time on radio Bandit. Pleeeeeeeeeeease click here and vote for Wildflower! It really means the world to us! The more attention we get, the more things we can do to entertain you guys, which is the main reason for us doing this! Thank you. See on the upcoming shows! Cheers! 2007 10 01 - And the winners are...! Eternity Remains! Gongratulations, lads! You will play on Sticky Fingers on October 26! It's a pleasure havíng you on board. Many thanks to all who participated in the contest and the jury. There was a lot of talent. Don't forget to order tickets! 2007 09 28 - Tickets for the release party on Sticky Fingers The tickets for our release party are available for purchase on ticnet.se. They only cost 80 SEK so get your asses over to ticnet and buy a bunch right now! The support act will be announced this Monday. We also need your helping hand to get some radio air time. Please click here to vote for our tune Wildflower on radio Bandit 106.3! We need and love you like mr Lecter loves your buttocks! Cheers! 2007 09 12 - NEW TRACKS ONLINE, NEW SHOWS AND IT'S ALL GOOD! Hey fuckers! We're rocking some heat into rainy September by putting two BRAND NEW TRACKS online on myspace! It's the title track (Schlacht) and the first radio single (Wildflower). Two very different tunes just to give you a hint of all the glory that is Schlacht! On the live side of things, there's been some changes on the Obituary tour, so check it out - myspace.com/avataronline. The big news though are that we're taking Dark Tranquillity's spot on the upcoming Eastpak Antidote tour in Sweden! It's headlined by Soilwork and it will be total fucking SCHLACHT in Malmö, Stockholm and home sweet home! Oh yeah, almost forgot to remind you about the release party. It's something for everyone right there. Almost no age limit (13) on the show and then, for those a bit older, we'll celebrate in ways you'll never tell to your mommy that you did! Tickets 30SEK when pre ordering SCHLACHT! Cheers! 04/09 -Support band contest announced Hey Swedes, wanna play on Sticky Fingers? Well this is your lucky day! We will hold a contest to appoint the opening act for our release party on October 26. You will play in 25 minutes. This is a cooperation between us and the Swedish music site rookie.nu. Just sign up your band and enter the contest. The rules are as follows: 1. The average age of the band members must be lower then ours (20). 2. The band must play at least one Avatar song. The jury consists of Markus Tagaris (A&R, Gain Productions), Edward Janson (agent, Motor), David Johansson (Sticky Fingers) and Martin Westerstrand (Lillasyster). You can find all the info you need on rookie.nu. Good luck. Peace out. 28/08 - Time to party!! Artwork revealed! Hey hey hey!!! The album is on it's way from printing right now and it's time for you guys to preorder. Click here to do so. If you're living close to Gothenburg (or enjoy travelling) you've got the deal of the month right here! The release party will be on Sticky Fingers' Top Floor on October 26th and if you pre-order an album right here you'll get the ticket for only 30SEK - sent to your mail box on the release date! You can't get tickets anywhere else! The age limit is only 13 (according to Swedish laws) on the concert (don't worry, we'll sell beer'n'booze on the balcony for you 18+). We really want to see you all there, helping us in making it a night to remember! We love you all. Cheers! PS. The art work kicks ass. DS. ;) 21/08 - Tracklisting and live shows! Here you got it - the complete tracklist of our upcoming album SCHLACHT: Schlacht Wildflower All Which is Black 4 AM Breakdown As It Is All Hail the Queen When Your Darkest Hour Comes I Still Hate You One/One/One/Three Die With Me The End of Our Ride Letters From Neverend Now doesn't that look like the best track listing ever seen?! In other news, we have a few more dates added to the tour in January and a show in Stockholm in a few weeks on Swedish Metal Expo 2007 with our touring 'pals Evergrey + CloseUp-båten 2008! Get ready for some new killer tunes and prepare for total fucking SCHLACHT! 04/08 - TOTAL FUCKING SCHLACHT!!! We've got title and release date set for the new album! Make a mark in your calender on October 24th. The album, which will be named Schlacht, will be out in all over Europe simultainiously and it will be packed with one hour of kick ass multimedia junk, such as live clips and interviews! Large parts of Europe will be able to see us on the road in the beginning of next year with the almighty Obituary and Holy Moses. We're working on the Swedish dates at the moment, so be patient. This album will be something for the history books, I tell ya! I guess you're not really allowed to get these kinds of goose bumps from your own music, but WE DO!!! Can't wait to show you, but I will! Cheeeeeeeers! 25/06 - Avatar is endorsed! All hail Ibanez, Tama and Meinl for the awesome stuff they throw at us! HAIL! We're so thrilled that we're adding a show date in Borås. Check out LIVE to find out more. And also, has anyone told you guys that this is going to be the greatest album ever? Cheers! 30/05 - Avatar youtube-channel + samples from new album You can now follow our work in the studio in both print and picture! Check out our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/avatartube to view our video reports (containing some short samples from our new album) or read the Studio Report on the link to the left! Enjoy! 07/05 - Final recording phase initiated + DVD announcement We're finally sober enough to do the final recording sessions for the album. The first date is set to be May 21. To keep you all up to date on what's going on there'll be a studio diary online here on our homepage. The album will come with a DVD featuring live videos, interviews and a fat bunch of bonus material! Excited? Well, you CAN'T be as excited as we are!!! 01/05 - New show and updated gallery Someone knocked on the door to the studio and told us that we're going to pay a visit to Linköping Metal Massacre. A new gig is always great news! As I sat down to tell you this I also discovered some neat pictures from the last tour. It's all for you to enjoy in the Gallery. Cheers! 18/04 - Thoughts of no tomorrow in Norway It's now confirmed that Sony BMG will distribute the album Thoughts Of No Tomorrow and the upcoming album in Norway. The official release date is set to May 7th! Visit your local store and ask for the album! 31/03 - Avatar on Lunarstorm It has been years since we've cared of the biggest Swedish community Lunarstorm, but now Lunarstorm has made a new place for artists, like myspace, and you who are members on the community have probably noticed that we're on the first page today! Check it out, you can win signed CDs and T-shirts!! Also you can read the tour diary in Swedish! 16/03 - Tour diary online Hey hey hey! How are we doing, people?! We're getting pumped up for the first show of the tour and just want to tell you that you can get all the inside info about our doings in the tour diary to the left. It is also published in Swedish on Lunarstorm. See ya 'round! 27/02 - Avatar goes on tour with In Flames If this won't melt away the snow in Gothenburg, I don't know what will! We have the pleasure to announce that Avatar will tour Sweden and Norway with metal gigants In Flames! In addition we're doing our first big outdoors festival gig on Hultsfred and other festivals this summer! All the dates and venues will be found on the LIVE section. Give me a hell yeah! 11/02 - Avatar back in the studio + new gig with Stone Sour The sun is shining upon the faithful! We're in the studio now, working on our next album until the end of April. You'll hear the first single from it in May. The only time that we'll come out is to play live. Speaking of this, we'd like to announce that we have a new booking agent. Everyone raise your glass for mr Edward Jansson of In Flames and Hammerfall fame and the company Motor! His first achievement for us is an opening spot for Stone Sour next Friday in Stockholm. Check out the LIVE section for more info. 01/02 - Short and sweet Hey dudes! Don't miss the new pictures in the gallery and that we're playing a show without any age limit at Storan in Gothenburg on the 15th of February. Buy your tickets in time from ticnet.com. Cheers! 17/01 - 2nd pressing of Thoughts of no tomorrow Due to the very good sales of 'Thoughts of no Tomorrow', we're now making a second pressing. It's the same contents but we've fixed the booklet and changed it a bit with a picture and so on. In other words, the first pressing is now a collectible! ;) Also, as a late christmas gift we've put the price down from 139:- (16€) to 99:- (11€)! See the merch-section, Cheers! 2006 12/12 - New merchandise available Avatar brings christmas goodies and some sunshine news in the rainy season. We've just recieved a big box full of brand new avatar caps that look killer! It's the only christmas gift you'll need this year. Click HERE to order! 04/12 - Christmas party on Trädgårn' + new shit online Hey everybody! Guess we forgot to tell you that we're home again. Well here we are, and we're back with a vengance! Many thanks to Evergrey + crew for an amazing tour! Cheers, and see you guys soon! Actually we'll be playing with them and and none less than Hardcore Superstar on a little ol' place they like to call Trädgårn' here in Gothenburg. The show will take place on December 29. Come and party yourselves senseless! Book tickets here! We've also got some neat photos from the the trip. Click the Tour Diary to the left for photos! See you guys soon! 28/10 - Greetings from Münich! The tour is starting nice and easy. We’re sitting here, playing Xbox while waiting for our soundcheck. We’ll keep you updated with what’s going on during the tour in the tour diary. You can check it out to your left. Hugs and kisses! 27/09 - Avatar to tour with Evergrey! Here's the deal. We're forced to cancel the two Paul Di'anno shows in Sweden because we're hitting Europe with Evergrey, and that's a big one! We're out to promote the European release of Thoughts of no Tomorrow, so this goes out to European skinners everywhere: Buy the plastic, listen like hell and come to the show and bang your heads to the real thing. That's all we have to say about that. 17/08 - Avatar rides with the killer! Good day dear friends. First of all we'd like to thank the amazing audience who showed up on EM-festen. You guys are the best! Second, we're both honoured and thrilled to tell you all that we'll join Paul Di'Anno on a couple of dates in Sweden and Denmark. Check out the LIVE section for more info. Last, don't miss the new photos in the gallery! 27/07 - European album release set to September 15! Yes, you read it right, it's finally hitting Europe. And to make this news day even neater we've gotten ourselves a new homepage adress. As you can see we're now hanging out at avatar.net. Lets fuck to celebrate! Now cheers 'til next time and a little reminder for all westcoasters to see us at EM-festen. Let's make that a night to remember. For the rest of you, see you on tour this fall, right? 03/07 - New Gigs Oh yeah, we have some new gigs for you guys! Check out the live section - the first one is already on friday in Gothenburg!!! Also - don't miss our tour photos ;) 02/06 - Avatar goes to Frihamnspiren We're home from our Euro Trip now. It's been a real blast and we give our thanks to Impaled Nazarene, Master and Stoneman for all the sex, drugs and rock'n'roll ;) While we were gone an interview was aired with John and Johannes on P3. You can listen to it until tomorrow night by clicking here (part 2). The headline news of today though is that we will play on Frihamnspiren on Göteborgskalaset the 8th of August together with Arch Enemy! This is a big honour to us and you can expect us giving it all! See you there! 09/05 - Merchandise, diary and a reminder We just wanted to remind you of the RioRio gig coming up this Thursday. Come and party with us, Orion, Vile Scar, By Night and Los Sin Nombre and wish us luck on the european tour! We'll have a tour diary on www.avatarcrew.com for the trip. Check it out! You should also check out our NEW merchandise! Until next time, enjoy the spring! 27/04 - European release and tour! Hell yeah! Big thanks to Dismember for some kick ass shows up north. Hope to see you on the road again soon! The album "Thoughts of no tomorrow" will be out in Europe this fall! To turn up the heat before the release, we'll be opening for Impaled Nazarene on their European tour in May. Due to this, we've been forced to move some shows around. Check out the LIVE section to get updated on that issue. 18/04 - LIVE! LIVE! LIVE! Greetings! Avatar is celebrating the spring by adding a nice share of concerts in May (and more is to come). We're also looking forward to the opening spots for Dismember this week. We're going way more up north than ever before! Totally kicking ham! See you all on the road! 20/03 - New gigs, reviews and pictures We've got a bunch of articles and reviews online. Check out the discography section. The big news this time though are the new gigs we've booked in April. We'll be playing on Storan in Gothenburg and team up with Dismember for a couple of shows in the north of Sweden. We're really looking forward to that! You can find more information in the live section. Also don't miss our gallery-update (the first one for a very long time)! 15/03 - Gig cancelled The gig tomorrow in Vellinge is cancelled, due to reasons out of our control. But we'll be back, have patience! 10/03 - Interview on national radio P3 tomorrow A longer interview with John and Johannes will be aired at the largest radio channel in Sweden tomorrow, P3 FM 99,4. Be sure to tune it in at 20.00! If you don't live in Sweden, you can listen to it from this website (GMT 19.00). 16/02 - Mp3s, reviews and radio You are now able to buy our album at every Swedish download page. If you click to the left you can listen to samples from the whole album and buy songs or the whole album in mp3! We are also challengers on rockradio.se this week. Please click here and vote for us! New reviews and interviews can be read on discography. 06/02 - Opening for Hardcore Superstar You can't escape us! Two new gigs have been booked. One in Vellinge and one on Sticky Fingers, opening for Hardcore Superstar on the first of their two gigs (the one without age limit). Check out Live for more information. 03/02 - Radio, lists and greed We've made it up to number 3 on the list of the most sold Hardrock / metal albums in Sweden this week! We thank all of you who have bought the album and supported us! Keep on buying! PROFIT! PROFIT!!!! We only got three signed copies left in stock so you better hurry if you want one of those! The album got a kick ass review in Sweden's biggest morning paper, DN. You can read it in swedish in the discography section, among with some new interviews! 25/01 - Christmas #2 Hell yeah! These are days of celebration, people! The album is finally out which means that your lives finally has a meaning again. GP gives it a 4/5 grade and a short interview with John. Check it out at discography!! If you want a signed copy of the CD, we have a few left in stock, so hurry and order one! As if this wasn't enough, we'll have the first gig in a month this saturday at good ol' Meeths. This will be the release gig for the audience under 18 (but remember the 16-years age limit ;) ). Until then you can improve your choice of radio station by listening to P3 Rockster as we are being played there on daily basis. Oh - a new gig is booked too! 18/01 - GP: page 91: right corner Best right now - Avatar: "Thoughts of no tomorrow" (Out 25/1). Young and promising Gothenburg debutants who hits the world with great power! (Bella Stenberg - review next week). 17/01 - Release Parties and Reviews We might have discovered a cure for cancer, but we'll only tell you if you pre order our album first. If you want a teaser, the first review of it is up. Check out the discography to read it. Now for some bad, fun and great news all combined in one. The bad thing is that Dismember cancelled the gig at Belsepub. The fun part with that is that we have become the headliners. What's great with that is that we can bring Mindfall to the party! Is life great or what?! :) We have a new gig booked on the tour. It'll be in Halmstad, 17th of February. That'll kick ass, of course and we hope to see you there. Until next time, CHEERS! 04/01 - Pre Order available + Tracklist What´s up Rockers? The day has come to let go of some more information about our upcoming debut album! The anthems are as follows: 1. Bound To The Wall 2. And I Bid You Farewell 3. Last One Standing 4. War Song (2006) 5. The Willy 6. My Shining Star (2006) 7. My Lie 8. Stranger (2006) 9. The skinner 10. Sane? 11. Slave Hive Meltdown. Pre order this work of art NOW and you´ll recieve it in your mailbox at the grand day of release (Jan 25). We´ve managed to tweak down the cost for you, so the price is more than fair! Last but not least, as you possibly can´t have missed, we have a new website! And along with it, two new desktop backgrounds has been added to the downloads-section. Check it out and Enjoy! 2005 31/12 - Avatar opening for Dismember Greetings! We've got some news to kick off the upcoming year with. The concert in Halmstad on the 10th of February is cancelled. In exchange we are happy to announce that we'll open for Dismember on Belsepub on that day. This will be a 2x album release party for both us and them. Soon the pictures from the recording will be online. Damn, we can't wait until the album is released, we listen to it every day right now, and it's only getting better and better! Soon you will be able to pre-order it from here. Last but not least we are proud and happy to be featured in the "årets bästa"-list for 2005 on groove.se. Check out the site and take a look. Happy new beer, everyone! 8/12 - Title and release date for the upcoming album + Tour Hi there! Here’s some juicy stuff for you to drool over. The title for the upcoming album will be “Thoughts of no Tomorrow”. The artwork is, as always, made by Phillip von Preuschen and the layout is done by Adde. All you have to do now is to wait until January 25th, which is the release date. In other kick ass news, we’ll go on tour in January/February together with Sonic Syndicate and Inevitable End. Click on LIVE for more information. Finally, we hope to see all of you at Partillerocken as we’ll be there to warm up the crowd (with matches and gasoline that is) Stay drunk / Avatar 25/11 - Gig cancelled The gig in Varberg has unfortunately been cancelled in this very VERY last minute. We're sorry about this, but it's not within our control! 23/11 - New show confirmed A new show has been confirmed in this very last minute; We will turn Varberg into a parking place this Saturday! See live for further details. 19/11 - Avatar signs a new deal with GAIN Yup. There you have it. A new record deal has been landed and the upcoming album will be released on Gain Music Entertainment (Hardcore Superstar, Venue Kids, Punk of country and more). The album will be released at the end of January. Thx for yesterday, you mad Gothenburg people! Our next stop will be Denmark and Copenhagen in friday next week. With a little luck the tech stuff won't betray us as much as yesterday. Be good now. Over and out. 8/11 - The technical wonders of the 21st century And I Bid You Farewell is available for download now. You can either download it to your hard drive, or you can listen to it together with some other songs in our new kickass mp3 player. In other news, avatarcrew.com is up and running! Join the force! Sign up today! It's for free, just like breathing, laughing and stepping on bugs. 3/11 - Hometown Blues Avatar will set the Gothenburg area on fire... OVER AND OVER AGAIN! We'll start in Torslanda, playing on "Torslanda Rockfestival" on the 12th of November. The 18th of the same month will be one of those magic evenings on good ol' Meeths, which also will be the case with December 3rd. We'll end it all by ripping up Partillerocken as a guest band on the finals, December 10th. To make you want to visit every show, we promise you to make every evening unique and special by every means we can. 19/10 - The time has come! Welcome to the NEW Avatar website! Some changes has been made, but you'll find your way around pretty fast. The biggest news alongside the new site is of course the single And I Bid You Farewell, which is out TODAY! We are also proud to announce that we will play in Copenhagen november 25. It's like christmas without guilt! Cheers, fuckers! 12/10 - AIBYF Postponed again We're even more sorry to announce that our new single won't be available in stores until next wednesday! But hey man - rock'n'roll! As we promised - a "secret" pre-release will be held at our gig in Malmö this weekend. The reason is some problems with the mastering-work. 10/10 - And I Bid You Farewell We're sorry to announce that the release of our single "And I bid You Farewell" has been postponed. This sucks ass, but hey! It can't be real rock'n'roll without some good old delays. It'll be available in stores in Gothenburg and on our website this Friday. Live long and prosper. 22/9 - The good, the bad and the other Bad news: Västerås is cancelled. Not within our control Good news: We will play in Malmö October 14th In other news: We're proud to announce the title of our upcoming single: And I Bid You Farewell. The release date is set to October 12th, only three weeks away! 11/9 - Gothenburg, zombies and studios A whole lot of news for’ya. The studio work goes excellent! You can find a neat little studio diary to the left Next: We will appear on the premier of the movie “Die Zombiejäger in Västerås the 24th of September. Tickets can be bought on www.ticnet.se. And Next: We will bring pain, suffering and loud metal to Musikens Hus the 30th of September. Yippikayey, motherfuckers! 31/8 - NO you're not dreaming Okay people, It's no secret anymore! We’ve signed a fucking RECORD DEAL with Bloodstained Art Entertainment, and are going into the studio tomorrow for our first full length album. It will be released in the beginning of next year, but you’ll get a single from it already in the middle of October. We will also do a total remake of our webpage, and the Avatar Crew will be extended to get an own homepage with a forum and other fun stuff. Additional to all this, a tour is planned for November. Excited? 25/8 - Website problems fixed Hi everyone! Looking forward to August 31? It seems like our mp3-server has crashed. Again. Hate. So - if the downloads doesn't work, you're able to download our stuff from Myspace. See Media for more info! 13/8 - Signed booking contract Today we signed a worldwide concert & tour-booking deal with the Swedish booking label First Agency. From now on Avatar will be booked through our agent Hannes Hedman (see Contact). This is the beginning - something big is going on... The whole story is to be revealed the 31th of august at midnight. Come back to find out what! 1/8 - New gig booked We are supposed to rip up Stockholm on saturday August 27th. And we will!! See live for more info. 16/6 - Updates Check out PRESSAREA and read a new kickass interview from Revolutionzine (Mexico) with Henrik! Also, a open-air gig is booked at Slottskogen on tuesday!! Be there! 4/6 - Big plans! Big plans! We´re everything but inactive at the moment, although it might seem the opposite... Keep your mortal minds updated! 20/5 - New gig booked, and new reviews online We will support the german deathmetal act Sacrificium in Alingsås, august 12. Also, We've updated the pressarea a little, with some new reviews and stuff. Our great review from Slavestate Magazine should be online very soon, to defend the flute-track in "Stranger" from whats said in the review in Close Up Magazine ;). 13/5 - New gallery online Finally we got our thumbs out of our asses and uploaded the gallery from the AMAZING evening at meeths, earlier this year! Check them out! And don't forget The Crypt next friday! Also, some new reviews should be online in the days! 25/4 - New gig booked We will play at The Crypt in Henriksberg, Gothenburg on may 20 together with the great goth-metal act In Grey! See live for more info. 12/4 - New gig Apparently, we're going to play at UKM this saturday. This was something that passed us by completely. We totally forgot this whole thing. It will take place on saturday at Lindomegården. See live.. fans can expect a show behind the rules. 5/4 - Site problems We apologize for the problems we’ve had with the website the last days. The problems should be fixed now! 3/4 - Featured in GP / Special offer at the MERCH-store! / Video online We're featured in Göteborg-Posten saturday 2/4! Check it out! Also, we will give everybody who orders something from our merchandise-store the My Shining Star- single for free as a gift until April, 18! You'd better hurry up! And if you didn't notice, our brand new video "My Shining Star" is online! Check it out at the Media section! 15/3 - UPCOMING RELEASE: My shining star Avatar will release "My Shining Star" as a single for FREE, exclusively to the members of the Avatar Crew! The CD will contain the track "My shining star" together with the video and some live-recording. The edition will be limited, and will be released at the semifinal of Musik Direkt, Vänersborg (April 2). To get a copy, just show up at our gigs and you'll get it! Are you not a member of Avatar Crew yet? Sign up to the left for free! 26/2 - THANK YOU An enourmous THANK YOU from Avatar to the GREAT FUCKING AUDIENCE at Meeths! We´ve never played in front of an audience like you! Thank you, Avatar-Crew / (RöjMASTERS)! Everybody in the audience, please sign up with Avatar-Crew to the left! We really want you to come to our future gigs! You are the best! 20/2 - A lot of reviews added Some more great reviews have been added to the Pressarea!! Check them out! 14/2 - Added review, RockaFett and Tournews We've added a fresh and awesome review at the Pressarea - from the national magazine Groove! We also passed to the final in the competition RockaFett, which will be held this upcoming saturday. Right now our Sweden summer tour is being booked. Stay tuned for more information about this.. 6/2 - Video recorded We've finished the work with recording the video, and it seems like it'll be great! Great thanks to Jonas, Magnus, Niklas, Joel, Thomas and everybody else in the team for the great work! Now the video is to be mixed and some digital effects will be made, then it will premiere. The date will be announced later. Soon some photos from the video and the production will be online! Furthermore, we've been reviewed in Sweden Rock Magazine. Check out the Pressarea. 25/1 - Mölndalsrocken and Musik Direkt We recieved two awards at Mölndalsrocken; Best Drummer (John) and Best Personality On Stage (Johannes). At Musik Direkt we, together with the band Pickadoll, were the two bands who passed to the next competition in Vänersborg. See live for more details. 16/1- Pressarea and Rocka Fett-competition As you might see at the top of this page, we´ve got a brand new Pressarea. The pressarea is meant to be used by ezines, magazines, labels and others to get the latest information from Avatar and BSA Entertainment, and to get high-resolution photos and stuff from the band. We also collect our reviews on this page. Yesterday we played at Rocka-Fett, and made a great gig for a great audience. We succeeded and will play the semi-final sometime in February. Date will be announced soon. 12/1 - Avatar will record video In the beginning of February Avatar will record a video to "My shining Star" from the new EP "4 reasons to die". The video will perhaps be sent on ZTV and will be able to be downloaded from our website. The video will be directed by Jonas Wolcher, director of Die Zombiejäger. 3/1 - Avatar will appear in Zombie-movie Avatar will appear on the soundtrack to the new zombiemovie "Die Zombiejäger" together with for example Dark Funeral! The movie premiere will be later in 2005! Check it out at www.diezombiejager.com. New gigs added also.. 2004 28/12 - 4RTD hits 5/5 We've recently recieved a new GREAT review of 4RTD on Twilight Hall E-Zine in swedish. Read the review now by clicking the link. We're also reviewed at www.joyzine.tk. All reviews will be able to be read at our website later! 20/12 - Gigs Some more gigs have been added. Check out live! Merry X-mas everyone! 15/12 - Distribution The new EP "4 Reasons to die" is now sold in almost every record store in the Gothenburg-area. We're working on getting it distributed to the rest of Sweden! 08/12 - Gigs added I've added some new recently booked gigs. Check out live for more information. 05/12 - The Guestbook The guestbook is avaible again at last. Feel free to use it! 26/11 - New gig confirmed We've been confirmed to play at Partillerocken (Partillebohallen, Partille) december 11th! 21/11 - New website online The new website is up and running.The merchandise-page is still under construction, but will be online soon. You will be available to order CDs, T-shirts and more without much effort and trouble. The Guestbook will also be online in a few days. 20/11 - Four reasons to die Yesterday our new EP "Four reasons to die" was released. We made a great releasegig at Ungdomens hus, Varberg, thanks to everybody who were there and to the other bands! And we're really sorry to announce that the new website is being delayed for some time. It should soon be online, it just needs some more work with the Merchandise-pages. We hope that it will be online within a week from now. Until then, you can order 4RTD, P.O. and T-shirts by mail, contact@avatar-online.net. See ya! 9/11 - News of Four reasons to die Finally, our upcoming EP "Four reasons to die", is about to be ready. Today it was mastered at Studio Bohus, and in the past week we've been working at Studio Gain, recording and mixing. What we can say to you is that this production really fucking rules! The sound is awesome! Do you want to pre-order your copy and get it to your home by mail at the day of the release (Nov 19)? Send a mail to contact@avatar-online.net with your name, order and address and we'll send it to you for SEK 40 (postage included). You'll pay for the CD first when you get it! Contact us and we'll send you more information! An updated website will be online before november 19, with a new Merch-store where you can buy what we got (t-shirts, records, stickers). 3/10 - News about the new recording / Gig-update First of all, Avatar will appear at Meeths, Gothenburg, at the unsigned-band festival FutureSound. The date for this show will be Oct. 22. Please be there and support us. This is a really important gig to us. There will be a lot of important people from record labels etc. and the last year three band got signed after their appearance. We want to show these people our audience, our AvatarCrew (Röjmasters) with familys and friends!
The new recording is approaching and will be released at november 19. The title for the miniCD is set to "4 reasons to die" / (Four reasons to die) and will contain the following songs:
19/8 - Video online / gig-update
12/8 - News of the Härlanda-gig
10/8 - Last minute-gig confirmed
20/6 - ...and another new gig confirmed
15/6 - New gig confirmed
19/4 - Major Website update
15/4 - UKM-gig cancelled + new gig
29/2 - Avatar will be aired
29/2 - Rock of bohuslän
12/2 - Rock of bohuslän is approaching
6/12 - Demon försenad
4/12 - Spelning bokad
22/11 - Utslagna i semin
18/11 - Nyheter om den kommande demon
2/11 - Avatar vidare i partillerocken!
29/10 - Avatar till studion
19/10 - "Break" inspelad i Studio Gain
18/10 - BREAKING NEWS: Sista medlemsbytet genomfört!
1/10 - Miniinspelning i november
1/10 - Partillerocken
8/9 - Lineupändring
11/8 - Johannes tillbaka
29/7 - Bas: Mathias Smedberg
11/7 - Kim och Björn slutar
9/6 - Ny hemsida uppe
15/5 - Logon klar
1/4 - Johannes lämnar Avatar
1/4 - Björn Risberg på bas
18/3 - Spelning i musikens hus spikad
12/2 - Niklas slutar, ny basist sökes
10/1 - Första spelning inbokad
28/10 - Avatars hemsida är uppe |