EVERGREY HAVE SIGNED WITH STEAMHAMMER/SPV - New album TORN out in early September

Following intense and very constructive discussions, Steamhammer/SPV have announced their future collaboration with Swedish dark melodic metal act, Evergrey. The deal includes not only the group's brand-new studio album, *Torn*, which will arrive at the stores at the beginning of September, but also Evergrey's complete back catalogue. Evergrey mastermind Tom S. Englund is looking forward to a productive cooperation with Steamhammer, explaining: "After long and intense negotiations, we feel that we have arrived at optimum conditions for everybody involved. We are confident that Evergrey will continue to grow artistically under the terms of this contract, that SPV will enjoy our cooperation and – this is definitely the most important aspect – that our fans will thoroughly benefit from the new deal."

The first stage of this ambitious target will see the release of Evergrey's new studio album, *Torn*, at the beginning of September, featuring eleven compositions, described by Englund as a "modern mix of *In Search Of Truth* and *Recreation Day*". "The tracks are all guitar-oriented and very atmospheric. They have exactly the sound that our fans expect from us." According to Englund, the slightly more experimental direction of Evergrey's previous release, *Monday Morning Apocalypse*, has given way again to old strengths and virtues. "Two years ago we needed an album with a slightly different approach and an expensive producer, just to find out how that sort of thing works. It was the right album at the time, but now we have returned to our typical trademarks." This is one of the reasons why the tracks on *Torn* were self-produced by Englund together with drummer Jonas Ekdahl. In addition, the band has a new bassist, Fredrik Larsson having been replaced by former Stratovarius musician Jari Kainulainen.

Since the band arrived on the scene in 1998, Evergrey have brought out six studio albums and one live cut. All of them made the top 20 in their native Sweden and the last two made the top 10 (no. 6 and 3, respectively). On top of that, their DVD was number 1 for four weeks and nominated for a Grammy in Sweden. The band has toured around the globe several times, together with In Flames, Nevermore, Throwdown, Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom and Iced Earth, among others. Along with *Torn*, their new contract with Steamhammer/SPV includes the band's complete back catalogue, so top-quality reissues featuring a selection of bonus tracks are likely in future. "There is so much additional material for each album that we could theoretically re-release it on an extra DVD. Whatever we manage to do – premium reissues are certainly a possibility."

Teaser video (April edition) for the new Evergrey album "Torn"!

Teaser video (March edition) for the new Evergrey album "Torn"!

MySpace interview with Jonas has just been posted, check it out. Click HERE to read it!

MySpace interview with the Evergrey bassist Jari is now up. Click HERE to read it!

Also check out the blog entries for updates directly from the studio. Videos from studio also available below.

Latest news from the Evergrey camp:
Our new bass players name is Jari Kainulainen!

Some of you might know him as a former member of Stratovarius and we are extremely happy to have him in the band as we know he will improve our sound in a great way which he already proved when we rehearsed together.

Me and Henrik talked after the rehearsal and both said we had goosebumps and this coming from a a guy playing bass. Before it’s always been like - hey whatever it’s only bass - but now we really feel that Jari will bring our sound up to a new level.

We got along great and it of course also helps a lot that Jari is a very experienced player when it comes to playing live with his several world tours together with Stratovarius as proof.

This was one of the main things we were looking for in a bass-player except for the playing of course, so that we wouldn’t end up with a person who after 100 gigs finds out that this was not what he was meant for, cause this is, whether you believe so or not, a very weird and demanding life that let’s you experience the greatest things in the world as well as the sickest, most draining moments of utter insecurity - that of course immediately vanishes as soon as we get to play for you guys!

We are so much looking forward to the coming months of recording and playing and it honestly feels like a fresh start and an injection I think we needed.

I’m going to leave you with a few words from Jari himself.

All the best,
Tom

What can I say? When I heard that Evergrey was searching for a new bass player, I immediately contacted Tom to let him know that I was extremely interested!

Then they asked me to come and audition for them. I can’t even start to explain how nervous I was!

But everything just matched, and sounded great! And before we knew it we were all shit faced and celebrating the Scandinavian way!

See you on the gigs!
Jari Kainulainen

See the blog archives at http://blog.myspace.com/officialevergrey for MySpace interviews with Tom and Rikard!

Video for "Monday Morning Apocalypse" (from the album "Monday Morning Apocalypse")

Video for "A Touch Of Blessing" (from the album "The Inner Circle")

Live video for "Mark Of The Triangle" (from the DVD "A Night To Remember")

Video for "Blinded" (from the album "Recreation Day")

Video for "I'm Sorry" (from the album "Recreation Day")

Video for "The Masterplan" (from the album "In Search Of Truth")

Video for "For Every Tear That Falls" (from the album "The Dark Discovery")

The new Evergrey album "Monday Morning Apocalypse" is out now in Europe and the US!

Click HERE to order!

Tracklist for "Monday Morning Apocalypse":

Links to album reviews of "Monday Morning Apocalypse":

Evergrey interviews (all from 2006):

Download the Monday Morning Apocalypse wallpaper (resolution: 1024x768) HERE

Selected Evergrey discography:

A Night To Remember DVD/CD (2005)

The Inner Circle (2004)

Recreation Day (2003)

See the full discography at www.evergrey.net

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