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Alors que le mentor et père co-fondateur d'Avatarium, Leif Edling a pris, pour raisons de santé doublées d'un retour à la maison mère Candlemass, une distance grandissante avec ce projet parallèle qu'il a initié en 2012, le dernier né du groupe, « Death, Where Is Your Sting », à la référence toute biblique, marque une réelle émancipation du quintet de Stockholm qui a fini par couper le cordon ombilical avec son géniteur. Ce cinquième album d'Avatarium, bien que toujours mâtiné de Doom, se révèle ainsi moins marqué par les influences du dirigeable zeppelinien et les riffs heavy de sir Tony Iommi sur lesquelles il avait pris racine. Aux commandes du combo aux côtés du guitariste et songwriter Marcus Jidell, la chanteuse et désormais compositrice à plein temps, Jennie-Ann Smith nous accorde une piqûre de rappel de ce « Death, Where Is Your Sting » entre ombre et lumière.
Gothenburg's finest export of darkness, Evergrey, enters a new chapter in the band's history with their thirteenth studio album and Napalm Records debut, A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament), released on May 20, 2022. In this conversation we discuss the album, working with Avatarium's guitar titan and fellow Swede Marcus Jidell, as well as Tom's daily battle to play the guitar due to an injury.
Projet parallèle de la tête pensante de Candlemass, Leif Edling, Avatarium est à l'image de la Suède, son pays d'origine, une parfaite symbiose entre ombre et lumière, hargne et douceur. Sur une ossature qui louvoie entre inspirations 70's version Black Sabbath et Doom est venue se greffer la voix angélique de Jeannie-Ann Smith dont la tessiture s'avère un parfait croisement entre Ronnie James Dio et Emmylou Harris. Soucieux de palier une absence de prestations scéniques pour cause de pandémie, Avatarium nous propose de goûter à nouveau aux joies des concerts, tranquillement installé sur notre canapé, avec un live, « An Evening with Avatarium » qui nous ferait presque oublier, pour un temps du moins, les mesures restrictives actuelles. Marcus Jidell, guitariste et compositeur de la team suédoise nous offre un petit tour en backstage !
The live music experience has been on a standstill for the majority of 2020 due to a pandemic – Swedish doom metallers Avatarium are making sure they can still give that experience to the fans in any given fashion. Guitarist and producer extraordinaire from the band Marcus Jidell joins us to talk about the newest live album they have just dropped, titled “An Evening With Avatarium”. Marcus has taken in so much experience throughout his music-storied career, that releasing a live album provides another exquisite chapter in his catalog. The concert they have recorded was executed to perfection before Covid ever hit, so the timing was impeccable. Even though this is a live album, it also serves as a snapshot of where he is at a certain time in his life, for better or worse that allows him a chance to grow as an individual and as an artist. Tune in to this episode now and make to buy/stream Avatarium's newest live epic, “An Evening With Avatarium” out now on Nuclear Blast Records.
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+++ The concert film of the year +++ Marcus Jidell on the rather coincidental production of the first AVATARIUM DVD +++ Location from the 19th century +++ Metamorphosis into a "Dark Gospel" bandThis time it's all about AVATARIUM from Stockholm. Ever since her first self-titled album in 2013, the magical voice of front woman Jennie-Ann Smith has enchanted me. From my point of view, the band has made an incredible metamorphosis over a total of four albums and let more and more warm rays of sunshine into the compositions of the deep, heavy dark, cold sounds of the Black Sabbath-type. Just have a look at all the acoustic songs on the AVATARIUM YouTube channel, you will be very surprised.Their latest album "The Fire I Long For" was released last November, with which the band opened up a completely new niche, which they call "Dark Gospel". If you want to know more about this, I should watch the explainatory video for the song "Rubicon", which went online for a few days.2020 could have been the year of AVATARIUM, two warm-up shows were played in Sweden and then an extensive live implementation with the highlights Wacken and Summer Breeze, to name just a few, should follow. But these plans were also lost in the wake of the pandemic.Almost by chance, one of the first two shows in Stockholm was recorded with cameras. I was allowed to watch this video completely and can tell you that the concert is an absolute eye-catcher due to the historical location from the 19th century. For over 90 minutes a dark Doom thunderstorm breaks loose, in extreme contrast with almost folk-like ballads, soulful bluesy guitar solos, a lot of 70s Hammond organ and above all this magical voice of Jennie-Ann Smith.And it is exactly this experience that rings your doorbell now, because the "Concert Film of the Year" for me is available as a video download. You can secure this show here for 10 euros. You even get a finished cover to print out so that you can get a DVD of it can burn, quasi an official bootlegBut to build up the tension a bit, let's first hear what AVATARIUM mastermind Marcus Jidell told me about this project. Lean back.THE BLOG OF ROCK is your hard rock & heavy metal podcast music magazine. My name is Uwe Lerch and I'll take you backstage to RockStars!Of course we chat about the music that connects us all. About new records, about live plans and what used to be. But we also talk about the people behind it. What inspired and motivated them and what RockStar tips do they have for you out there. New episodes will be out every Thursday - free and loud!
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+++ Der Konzertfilm des Jahres +++ Marcus Jidell über die eher zufällige Produktion der ersten AVATARIUM-DVD +++ Location aus dem 19. Jahrhundert +++ Metamorphose zur einer "Dark Gospel" BandDiesmal dreht sich alles um AVATARIUM aus Stockholm. Schon seit ihrem ersten selbst-betitelten Album aus dem Jahr 2013 hat mich die magische Stimme von Frontfrau Jennie-Ann Smith verzaubert. Über insgesamt vier Alben hat die Band aus meiner Sicht eine unglaubliche Metamorphose hingelegt und in die tief-schweren düsteren kalten Klänge Marke Black Sabbath immer mehr warme Sonnenstrahlen in die Kompositionen reingelassen. Schaut Euch hierzu einfach mal die ganzen Akustik-Songs auf dem YouTube-Channel von AVATARIUM an, ihr werdet sehr überrascht sein.Ihr letztes Album „The Fire I Long For“ erschien im letzten November, mit dem die Band eine völlig neue Nische eröffnete, die sie selbst als „Dark Gospel“ bezeichnet. Wer hierzu mehr wissen will, der sollte ich mal das Erklärvideo zum Song „Rubicon“ ansehen, welches die Tage online ging. 2020 hätte das Jahr von AVATARIUM werden können, zwei Warm-Up-Shows in Schweden waren gespielt und danach sollte eine extensive Live-Umsetzung mit den Höhepunkten Wacken und Summer Breeze folgen, um nur ein paar zu nennen. Doch auch diese Pläne gingen im Zuge in der Pandemie unter. Fast schon zufällig wurde aber eine der beiden ersten Shows in Stockholm mit Kameras aufgezeichnet. Ich durfte mir dieses Video bereits komplett ansehen und kann Euch sagen, daß das Konzert schon aufgrund der historischen Location aus dem 19 Jahrhundert ein absoluter Hingucker ist. Über 90 Minuten brettert ein düsteres Doom-Gewitter los, im extremen Kontrast mit schon fast Folk-artigen Balladen, gefühlvollen bluesigen Gitarrensoli, ganz viel 70er Schweineorgel und vor allem diese magische Stimme von Jennie-Ann Smith. Und genau dieses Erlebnis klingelt jetzt auch an Eurer Tür, denn der für mich "Konzertfilm des Jahres“ ist als Videodownload verfügbar. Für 10 Euro könnt Ihr Euch diese Show hier sichern. Ihr bekommt sogar fertiges Cover zum Ausdrucken, damit Ihr Euch davon eine DVD brennen könnt, quasi ein Official BootlegUm die Spannung aber noch ein bißchen aufzubauen hören wir erst einmal, was mir AVATARIUM Mastermind Marcus Jidell über dieses Projekt erzählte. Lehnt Euch mal zurück. THE BLOG OF ROCK ist Dein Hardrock & Heavy Metal Podcast Musik Magazin. Ich bin Uwe Lerch und nehme Dich Backstage mit zu dem RockStars!Natürlich quatschen wir über die Musik, die uns alle verbindet. Über neue Platten, über Live-Pläne und was früher so war. Aber wir sprechen auch über die Menschen dahinter. Was hat sie inspiriert und motiviert und welche RockStar-Tips haben sie für Dich da draussen. Jeden Donnerstag neu - kostenlos und laut!
On November 22, doom metal wizards AVATARIUM released their heavy and emotionally dense new album “The Fire I Long For”. The new effort sees them return to their epic doom roots whilst paying their respects to rock legends like RAINBOW, LED ZEPPELIN and THE DOORS. Born from epic doom laden mastermind known as Leif Edling [...] The post MARCUS JIDELL Discusses New AVATARIUM album: “We Wanted a Heavy, and Big Fat Production, a Little Bit Darker Than Our Previous One” appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
Välkommen till Rock Dudes #102, som gästas av gitarr-virtuosen Marcus Jidell från doom metal-bandet AVATARIUM. AVATARIUM startade runt 2012, och släppte sitt självbetitlade debutalbum 2013. Och sedan dess har de hunnit släppa 4 fullängdare inklusive sitt purfärska alster The Fire I Long For. Du kommer få lyssna på ett kort bit av titelspåret i inledningen av avsnittet.Samtalet med Marcus Jidell blev så brett som vi hade hoppats på. Vi inledde med att prata om småbarn och dagis, därefter gick vi igenom uppväxten, utbildning och att musiken funnits hos Marcus i princip hela hans liv.Förutom att skriva musik åt Avatarium så arbetar han ofta och mycket i sin studio både åt sig själv och åt andra band.Ovanpå detta så driver han podden Gitarrzombien tillsammans med sin polare Fredrik Det här och mycket, mycket mer kan du lyssna på i Rock Dudes #102 som släpps tisdagen den 10 december 2019. Följ podden Rock Dudes via:http://rock-dudes.lnk.to/podd Stöd podcasten Rock Dudes genom att köpa vårt exklusiva merch:Webshop: http://bit.ly/rockdudeswebshop EPISODE FACTS: Recorded and Edit by: Jonas LööwRecorded at: Warner Music Office (Stockholm)Jingle recorded by: Jonas Hermansson, Peter Månsson & Mia Coldheart
Darren och Niclas sätter sig vid mickarna igen och pratar gott om ett album i deras Behind the Vinyl program. I detta avsnitt är de Deep Purples album In Rock och i dagens avsnitt är Marcus Jidell från Avatarium gäst. Rocksverige no Behind The Vinyl, Rocksverige, Pirate Rock Rocksverige Darren och Niclas sätter sig vid mickarna igen och pratar gott om ett album i deras Behind the Vinyl program. I detta avsnitt är de Deep Purples album In Rock o
Marcus Jidell är veckans gäst! Hans Avatarium släppte i dagarna det fantastiskt tunga albumet The Fire I Long For och förutom supergitarrist så är Marcus även en grym producent, som tex producerat Candlemass senaste album. Stöd Rockpoddens arbete via Patreon så får du ett bonusavsnitt per månad; www.patreon.com/rockpodden
In this episode I talk to Marcus Jidell from the Swedish band “Avatarium”. We talk about the new album “The Fire I Long For” which will be released on 22nd November. CHECK OUT the new single: Rubicon (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) Podcast Intro music “Monkey Fingers” by Marcel Yammouni. Check out Marcel’s website here: marcelyammouni.net Become A Guitarist Today Podcast playlist: https://music.apple.com/au/playlist/become-a-guitarist-today-podcast/pl.u-4JomXgDCmArr6K Thank you to my sponsors: Yousician: Your Personal Music Teacher. yousician.com Living Music: livingmusicstores.com Custom Guitar Picks: www.customguitarpicks.com.au Roach Music School: https://www.facebook.com/roachmusicschool/ To find out more about all my podcasts and who is coming up on future episodes check out my website: becomeaguitaristtoday.com Or on facebook Become A Guitarist Today with Adam Roach podcast. https://www.facebook.com/BecomeAGuitaristTodayWithAdamRoachPodcast/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-YihGZDVfxqDmfw5kVLXgQ email: adroach1@hotmail.com
Marcus Jidell (Avatarium). One of the greatest guitar innovators of the modern era, Marcus and Avatarium return with a new album called The Fire I Long For, due for release in November 2019. Hear what Marcus has to say about the album and also his superb guitar playing.
Heavy Magazine chats to Marcus Jidell about Avatarium's Hurricans and Halos album.
Marcus Jidell (Avatarium, Soen, The Doomsday Kingdom). Marcus joins Andrew to discuss the new album from Avatarium, Hurricanes and Halos and other aspects of has stellar career.
"For several years, the Swede fought with health problems and was plagued by stress-related fatigue syndrome after decades in the music business in which he sustainably shaped the genre of Doom metal with CANDLEMASS and walked modern paths with AVATARIUM. But while he was barely able to get up from his couch anymore, stress-ridden and tired, he used this paralyzing emptiness to pick up his old acoustic guitar and compose the very first melodies of his new brainchild THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM. Soon, the Doomfather’s kingdom started to see the light of day and he found new comrades-in-arms with WOLF-singer Niklas Stålvind, Andreas „Habo“ Johansson and his AVATARIUM-colleague Marcus Jidell. Their journey led them through fields of classical doom metal, but what made their sound so special was the pinch of New Way Of British Heavy Metal that they added to their leaden style. In combination withStålvind’s haunting vocals, THE DOOMSDAY KINGDOM created an all-absorbing vortex." Ben talked with Leif Edling about why he started a new band, the joys of making music and his feelings leading up to his first show in three years. Aired 6th April 2017. Tune in to SYN's Punk and Metal Night, Moshpit, on 8pm-11pm Thursdays, on SYN 90.7 FM & Digital, and online at www.syn.org.au. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Moshpitonsyn/ Follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @MoshpitSYN Hashtag: #MoshpitonSYN Website: www.SYN.org.au/Moshpit Subscribe to YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/moshpitonsyn?sub_confirmation=1 Omny Podcast: http://omnyapp.com/shows/moshpit Subscribe on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/moshpit-backstage-podcast/id1103834864?ls=1
Säsong 2 kickas igång med en genomgång av Fenders nya skapelse "Elite" som innehåller flera nyheter och spännande tweeds, bland annat Noiseless Pickups N4. För att få full koll på fakta bjöd vi in Christian Alsing, produktspecialist på Fender Scandinavia. Ny sidekick för säsongen är Marcus Jidell från Avatarium och Soen. Marcus har lång erfarenhet, både som gitarrist men även musikproduktion och en passionerad gitarrfantast. Programledare: Fredrik Svensson Sidekick: Marcus Jidell Gäst Christian Alsing, Fender Scandinavia