Avatarium
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Jennie-Ann Smith at Rock Hard Festival 2015
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| Origin | , Sweden |
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| Years active | 2013–present |
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| Website | avatariumofficial |
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Avatarium is a Swedish doom metal band from , founded by Candlemass songwriter Leif Edling in 2013.
In the winter of 2012 Candlemass founder and bass player Leif Edling started to work on a new project and wrote a few demos. Looking for musical partners, he first reached out to his friend, Opeth front man Mikael Akerfeldt, but due to a lack of time, he had to decline. Therefore, Stockholm-based guitarist Marcus Jidell (Soen, ex-Evergrey, ex-Royal Hunt) offered to help. Soon, Tiamat drummer Lars Sköld and keyboarder Carl Westholm joined the new band and the line-up was completed by Jidell's wife Jennie-Ann Smith, whose deep and bluesy voice added a new touch to Edling's typical heavy doom riffs.
By September 2013, they released their first EP Moonhorse and in November, their critically acclaimed eponymous full-length debut followed through Nuclear Blast.
The band's first live show outside of Sweden took place at the Dutch Roadburn Festival in April 2014, and in the fall of the same year, the Swedes released the EP All I Want, which also featured percussions US musician Michael Blair.
After a European tour and several festival appearances, the band entered the studio once more to record their second album: The Girl with the Raven Mask was released worldwide in October 2015 and was voted "album of the month" in several leading European magazines, such as Rock Hard and Metal Hammer. It was nominated for the independent music prize Manifest in Sweden and in September 2016, Avatarium received the „Up And Coming“-award from Germany's Metal Hammer.
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