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Evergrey is a Progressive Metal/Power Metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1996 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998.

Lyrical themes

Evergrey's lyrics have always been of the darker sort. The same can be said of the band's imagery. While The Dark Discovery dealt with a variety of ideas, later albums have been concept albums, dealing with issues like self-reformation (Recreation Day), paranoia, alien abduction (In Search of Truth), child abuse, and religion (The Inner Circle).

Recreation Day is an album that covers many issues, ranging from death and mourning to general fear and sorrow, all of which contribute to a greater concept of re-creation of oneself. These ideas are explored from many different points of view, such as someone contemplating suicide ("As I Lie Bleeding"), mourners after a funeral ("I'm Sorry," a cover of Dilba Demirbag's hit), and dying people's looking back on their "unforgivable" sins ("Unforgivable Sin"). "Unforgivable Sin" also acted as a catalyst for the next album, (The Inner Circle), which dealt with the same two issues described in the song: religion and child abuse.

Lineup

Tom S. Englund - vocals/guitar
Henrik Danhage - guitar
Michael Håkansson - bass (also in The Project Hate MCMXCIX, Embraced, Mortum)
Rikard Zander - keyboard
Jonas Ekdahl - drums

Guest musicians

Carina Kjellberg-Englund - female vocals (1996-Present)
The Gothenburg Symphonic Orchestra - string quartet (2004-2005)
Mercury Choir (of the Swedish Catholic Church) - choir (2003)

Former members

Will Chandra (1996-1998) - keyboard
Daniel Nöjd (1996-1999) - bass/vocals
Dan Bronell (1996-2000) - guitar
Patrick Carlsson (1996-2003) - drums
Sven Karlsson (1999-2001) - keyboard
Christian Rehn (2001-2002) - keyboard

Current Schedule

Evergrey recently returned to Division One Studios to record their sixth studio album, titled "Monday Morning Apocalypse", which is due for release on March 24 (Europe) and April 4 (USA). The producing and mixing will be handled by the experienced and extremely successful team of Sanken Sandquist and Stefan Glauman. Their track record includes artists like Rammstein, Britney Spears, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard.

The band's vocalist/guitarist/mastermind Tom S. Englund had this to say regarding the new collaboration: "We feel honoured to work with such amazing producers. We are sure that they will succeed in making us sound better than ever before."

Evergrey is scheduled to headline Prog Power VII in Atlanta this September.

Discography

The Dark Discovery (1998)
Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy (1999)
In Search of Truth (2001)
Recreation Day (2003)
The Inner Circle (2004)
A Night to Remember (Evergrey) (CD) (Gothenburg Concert CD) (2005)
A Night to Remember (Evergrey) (DVD) (Gothenburg Concert DVD) (2005)
Monday Morning Apocalypse (2006)

External links

Official Homepage

Heavy metal musical groups | Swedish musical groups | Progressive metal