Evergrey
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Genres | Progressive metal, power metal |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | AFM |
| Website | evergrey |
| Members |
Tom S. Englund Rikard Zander Johan Niemann Henrik Danhage Jonas Ekdahl |
| Past members | Patrick Carlsson Dan Bronell Daniel Nöjd Will Chandra Sven Karlsson Michael Håkansson Christian Rehn Fredrik Larsson Jari Kainulainen Marcus Jidell Hannes Van Dahl |
Evergrey is a progressive metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was founded in 1995 and released its debut album, The Dark Discovery, in 1998. After a short hiatus the band returned with its ninth album Hymns for the Broken, released on September 2014.
Evergrey's lyrics have always been of the darker sort, and the same can be said of the band's imagery. While The Dark Discovery dealt with a variety of ideas, many later albums have been concept albums, dealing with issues like self-reformation (Recreation Day), paranoia, alien abduction (In Search of Truth), child abuse, cults, 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"). "Unforgivable" 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.
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