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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. Their most recent album is Monday Morning Apocalypse, released in 2006.
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.
In 2006, Evergrey released their sixth studio album, Monday Morning Apocalypse. The album was produced and mixed by Sanken Sandquist and Stefan Glauman, former producers of Rammstein, Britney Spears, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard, among others.[citation needed] Tom S. Englund said, regarding the 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".[citation needed]
In September 2006, Evergrey headlined Prog Power VII in Atlanta.[citation needed] In October, they made a European tour to promote Monday Morning Apocalypse, and they were supported by Romanian death metal band Avatar.
Lineup
- Tom S. Englund - vocals/guitar
- Henrik Danhage - guitar
- Fredrik Larsson - bass
- 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
- Michael Håkansson (1999-2006) - bass
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 (Gothenburg Concert CD) (2005)
- A Night to Remember (Gothenburg Concert DVD) (2005)
- Monday Morning Apocalypse (2006)