Evergrey have released the third video taken from their newest album, Hymns For The Broken. Produced by Revolver Film Company and directed by Patric Ullaeus, the touching "Black Undertow" was the chosen song by the prog/power metallers from Sweden and is available for your viewing pleasure below.

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Evergrey are taking their live set to North American stages in August and September. The progressive metallers are currently touring in Europe showcasing their latest masterpiece Hymns For The Broken. Supporting the Swedes will be Australian prog act Voyager, as well as Borealis and Oceans Of Slumber; plenty of progressive metal to be enjoyed. Check out the U.S. and Canada shows of the band below.

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Event:	Evergrey: North American Tour 2015

Evergrey have a new video out! The Swedish band worked with Patric Ullaeus once again and this time they used the track "The Grand Collapse". This video seems connected to their first one for the single "King Of Errors". If you are curious about the video or simply want to hear that epic song once again, check out the clip now.

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Swedish progressive metal act Evergrey are pleased to premiere the official music video for the new track "King Of Errors", now available for streaming through the YouTube player below. The song appears on the band's upcoming new record, Hymns For The Broken, which is set for release on September 26th (EU) and September 30th (USA) via AFM Records.

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More news arrives today from Sweden as Evergrey unveil the cover artwork for their upcoming album Hymns For The Broken. They further announced that August 15th will mark the premiere of their new single and video entitled "King Of Errors". Those of you who are eager for a taste of what is to come, please direct your attention to the one-minute snippet here below. And check out the album cover too.

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It's been three years since the release of Evergrey's last album Glorious Collision (2011). After signing with AFM records earlier this year, the band announced they would be releasing their ninth album before the end of the year. They entered the studio at the dawn of April and with production just about wrapped up, the announcement has arrived in the form of a 55 second video. The title of the new album is Hymns For The Broken and it will be released on September 26th!

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Evergrey fans are probably impatient by now waiting for the follow-up to Glorious Collision (2011). Hopefully, this piece of news will make it a little bit more bearable. The unique Swedish progressive metal band is currently working on their brand new album which is planned to be released later this year via their new label, AFM Records. About time!

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The last band has been announced for the Portuguese festival Vagos Open Air 2013 which will take place from August 9-10th, 2013 at Quinta do Ega in Vagos. Progressive metallers Evergrey will perform on August 9th.

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Event:	Vagos Open Air 2013

Evergrey will embark on a North American headlining tour in September. Support on the trek comes from Sabaton, Powerglove, The Absence and, of course, Blackguard.

The tour kicks off with Evergrey's acoustic set at this year's ProgPower USA in Atlanta, Georgia

Evergrey + Sabaton - North American Tour:

Sep. 14 - Atlanta, GA @ The Vinyl (Acoustic Set - Prog Power)
Sep. 15 - Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage (Prog Power Kick Off)
Sep. 16 - West Springfield, VA @ Jaxx*
Sep. 17 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium*
Sep. 18 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero*
Sep. 20 - New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theater**
Sep. 21 - Montreal, QUE @ Foufounes Electriques**
Sep. 22 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House**
Sep. 23 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's**
Sep. 24 - Detroit, MI @ Blondie's**
Sep. 26 - Chicago, IL @ Reggie's Rock Club
Sep. 27 - St. Paul, MN @ Station 4
Sep. 28 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Osbourne Village Inn
Sep. 29 - Regina, SK @ Exchange
Sep. 30 - Edmonton, ALB @ Starlite Room
Oct. 02 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Oct. 03 - Vancouver, BC @ The Venue
Oct. 05 - San Francisco, CA @ The Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center
Oct. 06 - Hollywood, CA @ The Key Club
Oct. 07 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
Oct. 08 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
Oct. 09 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
Oct. 11 - Houston, TX @ Numbers
Oct. 12 - Dallas, TX @ Trees

* No Sabaton or Blackguard
** No Blackguard

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Original news, posted on 01.02.2011

"Restoring The Loss", a brand-new track from Swedish progressive metal band Evergrey, has been made available for streaming, exclusively at Radio Metal.

"Restoring The Loss" comes off the band's upcoming new album Glorious Collision, which will be released on February 22nd in North America, on February 25th in Germany, and on February 28th in the rest of Europe, through Steamhammer/SPV. More album details were previously reported over here.

UPDATE Ellrohir]

"Wrong", the new video from Swedish metallers Evergrey, can be viewed at this location, The clip was directed by Patric Ullaeus of Revolver Film Company.

"Wrong" comes off the band's forthcoming album, entitled Glorious Collision, which will be released via Steamhammer/SPV on the following dates:

USA/Canada: February 22
Germany: February 25
Rest of Europe: February 28

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Glorious Collision, the eight studio album of Swedish metallers Evergrey, will be released in late February. Audio samples of all tracks appearing on the band's upcoming album can now be streamed over at this location.

Glorious Collision album details were previously reported here.

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Official press release

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 reorganised 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 we're still friends privately."

Naturally, the decision to break up wasn't 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 weren't sure whether we'd 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 band's eighth studio album, which is due for release on 28 February 2011 (Germany: 25 February 2011; USA/Canada: 22 February 2011) on Steamhammer/SPV. 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."

This diversity is also expressed in the instrumentation of this extremely dynamic studio production which presents the new band members Marcus Jidell (guitar), Hannes Van Dahl (drums) and Johan Niemann (bass). "It's great to hear what a breath of fresh air Marcus, Johan and Hannes have brought into the band," Englund enthuses. "Although the entire material, except for two songs to which Marcus wrote and contributed on the compositional side, had already been decided when we started recording, they all left their own, very personal mark on this album." The great experience of Jidell and Niemann, who have worked with acts such as Royal Hunt and Therion, among others, and have now contributed lots of positive energy together with the 20-year-old drummer, Van Dahl, can be felt throughout the album.

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Swedish progressive metallers Evergrey, who are currently on tour through Europe, have cancelled their dates in in Spain (Llodio, A Coruña, Albacete, Madrid and Barcelona) and Portugal (Benavente) after their tour bus has been burglarized. The band's statement reads as follows:

"Due to a break-in in Evergrey's tourbus all gigs in Spain and Portugal are cancelled. Evergrey lost equipment and merchandise for a value BEYOND 35000 EUROS so it is impossible to continue? we pass Lyon on the way home and will use the equipment of the local support. MAYBE we can go home and get new equipment for the Holland shows and come back but this is still uncertain?

A list of ALL things stolen will be presented here together with the Police report.

More details on this soon?

To our Spanish and Portuguese fans we are extremely sorry but we have NO chance of making it with everything being stolen."

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Event:	Evergrey [CANCELLED]

Evergrey have finally made their "big changes" announcement. The full statement goes as follows:

"As promised here is the first part of news regarding Evergrey as a band. At first it might seem devastating and frightening as it did to us when making this decision. People change, evolve and grow, sometimes in different ways and in different directions. This happens to everyone and it has certainly happened to Evergrey as a band throughout the years.

Me and Rikard Zander (keyboards) have together with guitarist Henrik Danhage and drummer Jonas Ekdahl made the mutual decision that it was best for us all that they leave Evergrey. They wanted to and we wanted them to. The last tours, recordings and just hanging with each other has not been as fun and giving as earlier and before it would go too far, resulting in a collision in between friends, which could ruin everything we have built up during the years, we decided to call it quits. It's sometimes both smart and foreseeing to end situations before they get out of hand and create something that is totally unnecessary and irreparable. To be in a band must be experienced as fun, giving and fulfilling. There is so much time during a life as a touring musician that is boring that if you don't even enjoy yourself while playing then it's better to do something else.

Henrik and Jonas also got DeathDestruction that also has evolved and became more and more serious during the years and now they even recorded a debut album and naturally it felt fresh and reviving for them to enter something new and unexplored as opposed to Evergrey where they more or less experienced the same things over and over.

It is very important for us to tell you that we are still great friends and most likely always will be since we have shared 10 years of our lives and dedicated it to the progress and evolvement of Evergrey. The friendship is what we value the most and nothing could be more important than that, at least for the four of us.

So please take some time to digest and understand. That is what we have done and I am glad to say that all of us are happier than in a long time. This is something I think you can feel when watching the video version of the statement.

But that is not the end of it. Jari Kainulainen (bass) also decided to leave the band, and the reason was that he would rather play with a band called Killing Machine as they could offer him a salary we couldn't and that was the sole reason of his decision. We were really sad to see Jari leave as he is a tremendous bass-player and person.

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Original news, posted on 30.03.2010

Evergrey is currently busy on a new album, to be released at the end of this year. The band issued the following update:

"Been a long time since the last update but we are currently extremely deep into the songwriting and recording of the new album which should be released during the fall 2010. Do we need to tell you that it sounds good, great, fantastic... like always, right.

At the same time we are working with a lot of new people to ensure the best possibilities for a successful work for the new album. There will be more news about this soon. But there are some MAJOR changes in the world of Evergrey, and we are confident it will all be for the better.

At the moment we are booking a short tour for Europe in May. Tour of South America in June and some dates for the USA in connection with that. Festivals on top of that and so far we have a couple we can't go official with until we get the word, so be sure to visit us to stay on top of where you can catch us soon."

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UPDATE (thanks to Abattoir)

Evergrey have issued the following update:

"As promised there will be a whole lot of news coming your way in the coming weeks and days.

We have and still are undergoing some BIG changes in Evergrey at the moment. This involves everything you can possibly imagine, and can't imagine. BUT we are also very determined and focused on making the best album we have ever accomplished! We have NEVER spent so much time on detail as we are doing on this album. Everything from sounds to song-structures is under the magnifying glass and nothing will be left to chance.

Purely business related we are also undergoing changes, both big and small and the only thing we can and are allowed to say right now is that being us is very exciting for the moment. Of course you will all be informed about this as soon as we know for certain that the plans are going to take place.

BUT we DO have some new tour dates as well as quite a few to still be added on other continents than Europe so for our fans outside of Europe don't give up hope we will try to please everyone as soon as possible, probably sooner than you think. And for our Euro fans, be sure you get tickets for these shows as they will be something none of you have seen from Evergrey before. Hmmmm what else might there be to tell...?

Yeah, back to the album! 11 songs are written and we will keep on writing and recording as long as time allows us. We are very pleased with the result and the direction we are heading right now. Maybe there is bit more weight put on melody and the orchestration of some songs. As said before, the sounds have become VERY important for us, every song has its own unique trademark as far as the sounds go. There are short songs (meaning 3 - 3:30 minutes). There are long songs (meaning up to 6:40) for the moment. There are slow, heavy, fast and atmospheric songs and of course most important of all - it sounds more Evergrey than ever!"

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