Evergrey - Torn

[guardianofsteel]

Dernier message de la page précédente :

Clair. Pourtant il est chouette en gris avec le logo Evergrey, ..mais ce truc

[Everflow]

Pour écouter "Fail" : http://www.evergrey.net/mp3/Evergrey-Fail.mp3

C'est pas un retour à Recreation Day mais ça me plait déjà plus que MMA.

[Chacal]

Mouais bah c'est du Evergrey, niveau son ce morceau aurait pu être sur MMA, pour moi c'est dans la même veine. Rien de bien fabuleux, pas riffu comme un Recreation Day

[Everflow]

Pas très riffu ce titre ouais mais je le trouve plus atmosphérique et recherché que MMA, moins calibré gros refrains, si le reste confirme cette direction j'ai bien hâte.

[Everflow]

Si vous voulez lire une chronique titre par titre de l'album : http://www.bravewords.com/news/95126

[True Belief]

Moyen moyen le titre en écoute...c'est quand sacrement dans l'esprit de MMA.. j'attends l'album complet mais si c'est dans la même veine bah Evergrey que j'aimais beaucoup ce sera fini pour moi...

[Mr. Sandman]

Pour écouter l'album en entier:

http://www.myspace.com/officialevergrey

[Everflow]

J'ai bien aimé à première écoute, ça m'a l'air plus ambitieux que le précédent. Par contre le son reste assez sous-accordé j'ai l'impression. A voir...

Tom Englund raconte dans cette interview que le groupe a traversé une mauvaise passe après la sortie de MMA :

During a chat about Torn, the Swedes' excellent, forthcoming debut for SPV, founder/guitarist/frontman Tom Englund related just how close EVERGREY came to a major, irreparable rift. From the outside, it appears that guitarist Henrik Danhage took a diminished rôle in the creation of the new disc, drummer Jonas Ekdahl aiding Englund in the song writing and production. “The main reason was that me and Jonas actively started writing in a period when Henrik was on tour with In Flames. It wasn't planned, like ‘Let’s start writing while he’s away,’ It just happened and we kept going. We were all fed up with each other, to be honest, and were, for a long time. Henrik even got an offer from another band, to join them! He wanted to do that, but in the end, it didn't work out."

Add to that the situation with Monday Morning Apocalypse (their swan song on Inside Out), which saw a portion of the usually jubilant fan base expressing doubt, for the first time, followed by the defection of longtime bassist Michael Hakansson. "We've had line-up changes before," states the lanky guitarist matter-of-factly. "Saleswise, (MMA) was an improvement, selling more than any of our other albums. Moneywise, it wasn't worth it, but we learned a lot that we carried over to this album. It made it worth it now. This album certainly wouldn't sound the way it does without the knowledge and lessons we learned back then. At the same time, that negative response came as a shock to us. Since it never happened before. This came from our fan base, not that it made us change anything, or question our capabilities. When you start to get people that DON'T like you, that’s when you realize you're getting bigger. It’s like your mom and her sisters. That’s kind of how it was before. "

"All those things put a perspective on things for us. We had to sit down and discuss what we wanted to do. I was fed up with the whole situation of the band. I don't even know why, but it comes to a point where you've worked with the same people for the last five albums and things get too comfortable. There’s no edge and you get tired of it, like in a relationship, if you take things for granted. Now, we're all fired up and it’s better than it has been for the last six, eight years. It feels really good.”

Don't worry, there's no Gothenburg version of Some Kind Of Monster on the horizon, Evergrey dishing the dirt to a shrink. “We don't have that kind of money," offers Englund, only half joking. "I think we're all grown-up enough to handle that shit ourselves.”

[Chacal]

Je l'ai écouté, et trouvé super linéaire, sans passion et sans hit, je lui préfère MMA pour l'instant.

[Theli]

Bon, l'album n'est plus dispo sur le myspace

Après à peu prêt une quinzaine d'écoute, je suis heureux ! J'ai retrouvé le Evergrey que j'aime : épique et tortureux, majestueux et sombre !

Il m'a fallu plusieurs écoutes pour rentrer dedans, et effectivement, aux premiers abords, l'ablum peut sembler un brin linéaire.

Mais, tout cela s'estompre au fur et à mesure des écoutes : il a nombre de hits. "These scars", "Broken Wings", "Fear" ...

Merci Evergrey

[Chacal]

Ah??? bah je referais un effort alors, parce que tout de suite je l'ai trouvé un peu naze

[Mr. Sandman]

Ecouté 2 fois (je connais peu le groupe)
Bah c'est pas si mal que ça quand même !

[Everflow]

Il m'a fallu plusieurs écoutes pour rentrer dedans, et effectivement, aux premiers abords, l'ablum peut sembler un brin linéaire.

ça j'ai l'impression que c'est devenu très fréquent avec les groupes qui ont un son énorme pour ne pas dire surproduit, le son est tellement puissant de bout en bout que ça atténue le relief au sein des compos et il faut en conséquence davantage d'écoutes pour en saisir les nuances réelles.

[Everflow]

Propos de Englund à propos de leur nouvel son, label, bassiste, etc.

http://heavymetal.about.com/od/intervie ... ey2008.htm

Chad Bowar of About Heavy Metal recently conducted an interview with EVERGREY frontman Tom S. Englund. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

About Heavy Metal: Since the last CD, you've had a couple different bass players. The latest is Jari Kainulainen (STRATOVARIUS). How did he come to join the band?

Tom S. Englund: "We had an audition on our homepage where we said anyone who felt the urge to send in their materials and bio and playing samples. We had 400 applications. We tried out a few guys, then I got a call from a journalist friend of mine from Norway who said he knew a guy who could handle the bass. We told him to come down and try out like all the others had done. He did, and it took like five minutes for us to decide. He's one of the best bass players I've heard ever. Add to that all his touring experience, and that made him invaluable."

About Heavy Metal: Your latest CD "Torn" has a slightly different sound than "Monday Morning Apocalypse".

Tom S. Englund: "Yes, but at the same time every album we have made so far has been different soundwise. I don't know why, but when we write music it reflects back on the life we lived at the time we wrote it. When we wrote 'Monday Morning Apocalypse' we had been touring a lot and playings songs a lot live. That affected our songwriting the most. For this album, I went through a lot of personal crap that I had to deal with, and that's why the album sounds like it does."

About Heavy Metal: Last album you brought in outside producers. This time you went back to producing yourselves. How come?

Tom S. Englund: "When we decided that for 'Monday Morning Apocalypse' we had made four or five albums in a row in the same way, basically. We used the same studios and people. We needed to make a change on every level. That was certainly one part that we needed to change. Instead of just going in and recording another album, we felt like we needed somebody to come in and stir things around a little bit. And we were curious how outside people would look at EVERGREY and what they would do with it. It was a really cool experience, and 'Torn' would never have sounded the way it does without the lessons we learned on that album. At the same time, we spent a lot of money on 'Monday Morning Apocalypse' and felt that we could have better use for it on this album. Not that we weren't satisfied with that album, but now we've done that, now we know what it's brought us. We sold more than ever. But I produce albums in my free time as well, so it felt unnecessary to spend maybe $70,000 on a producer when I am a producer."

About Heavy Metal: What's the response been so far to "Torn"?

Tom S. Englund: "It's been out there a week, and the reviews have been fantastic, except for Sweden, which is really strange. And for the first time, we have encountered some people who don't like it in Sweden. But it debuted at No. 4 on the Swedish chart today, so we are very happy. It's a personal record. We had a No. 1 DVD, but as far as albums go, this is the best we've done. The reviews didn't have any effect on the people buying it. I hope that it keeps going like that for the rest of the world as well."

About Heavy Metal: You have a new record label, SPV. What was the deciding factor in signing with them?

Tom S. Englund: "We started negotiating with many different labels, both major labels and smaller ones about two years ago. The only thing we knew we didn't want was to put ourselves in a situation where we wouldn't be satisfied two years from now. Also we knew what we were worth. All the lessons we had learned with all the different contracts we have had in the past made us realize that if we're going to sign another contract, it might be the last contract we sign. With three albums it's going to take up at least five or six years of our lives. We negotiated with SPV for eight months back and forth. They were the only ones who stepped up to our demands, and we are really grateful. And that will also force them to work their asses off."

[Everflow]

Le clip de "Broken Wings", pas spécialement mon titre préféré de l'album, mais bon le clip est pas mal :

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... d=44498757