MARCUS JIDELL (AVATARIUM) (full english version)

+++ 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" band


This 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 bootleg


But to build up the tension a bit, let's first hear what
AVATARIUM mastermind Marcus
Jidell told me about this project. Lean back.


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