Avatarium The Girl With The Raven Mask

2015, Avatarium formed barely two years ago but already word is spreading rapidly about this unique band and it's special blend of heavy adventurous music. Jethro Tull... Blue Oyster Cult... Black Sabbath... Rainbow...! It's all there together with some delicate moments of beauty and fragments of pop and 60's psychedelia. It all began last winter when the mainman of seminal Swedish doomsters Candlemass, Leif Edling needed help to demo a couple of songs he was working on. Weeks turned into months and a few songs became a full length album with Lars Sköld, a good friend of Leif and skinbeater extraordinarie, being recuited on drums. THE GRIL WITH THE RAVEN MASK retains the same team that delivered that stunning debut, with guitarist Marcus Jidell producing. Once again drawing it's inspiration from the cream of ´70's rock, but adding some tempo and vibrancy into the band's doom, riff-based roots, the album veers from the pacy, driven title track to the subtle beauty of ,,Pearls And Coffins".