Description

Double album on black vinyls with gatefold cover

Occasionally a musician has to take a step back into the past to develop artistically. Tom Englund, guitarist and vocalist with Swedish rock group Evergrey, took this risk and reorganized his artistic environment. The most recent Evergrey line-up had reached a point where we no longer had fun as a group, he confesses, adding: So we went our separate ways to save our friendship. There were no angry words, and were still friends privately. Naturally, the decision to break up wasnt easy for these long-standing friends, especially for Englund and his remaining keyboardist, Rikard Zander, for whom a continuation of Evergrey was never called into question. Yet they both had to face a new challenge: In the beginning, we werent sure whether wed be able to write a new album without the wealth of experience that the previous line-up brought in. But after Rikard and I had composed a full three numbers during the first week, we felt that was a real coup. Listeners will feel this positive energy throughout Glorious Collision, the bands eighth studio album. A dynamic goody bag featuring the most diverse material ever released on an Evergrey album. This may sound like a contradiction in view of our personnel situation, but Rikard and I have allowed more influences on Glorious Collision than ever before. Some elements on Glorious Collision are classic rock, based on a metal format, sometimes the tracks are quiet and haunting, sometimes wild, demanding and gripping.

Track listing:
1. Leave It Behind Us
2. You
3. Wrong
4. Frozen
5. Restoring The Loss
6. To Fit The Mold
7. Out Of Reach
8. The Phantom Letters
9. The Disease
10. It Comes From Within
11. Free
12. Im Drowning Alone
13. And The Distance