It’s been 20 years since this band’s inception, and despite the band publicly announcing they might tone it down a notch. Their previous effort ‘Hymns for the Broken‘ just spawned too much creative energy, and forced the band into creating a brand new album. We’re not complaining!
The prog-power legends of Evergrey have announced ‘The Storm Within‘ as the title of their new album, and it will be released September 9th.
Tom Englund speaks a bit about the new album, and how important it is to Evergrey’s career:
“We went from having no intention of making an album at all to having all the inspiration in the world on ‘Hymns For The Broken’. Honestly, we’ve never felt better. ‘The Storm Within’ is a massive album. There are no fillers on it and we’ve never been about that. I think the inspiration speaks for itself.”
“As usual, the lyrics are based on someone or some event in my life. When we were making this album a lot of these relationship issues were going on around me; people losing a partner or a loved one and grieving. ‘The Storm Within’ is about a search for identity, trying to make yourself full when you feel half empty, and I placed that storyline in an interstellar world.”
“I had a goal when I started Evergrey; I wanted to make 10 albums and that would fulfil my life plan. That’s not something I ever thought I would accomplish. It’s quite an amazing thing to be a band for 20 years and release albums that aren’t sub-par. When I realised we’d done 10 albums in 20 years, it was mind-boggling. I’m proud to say that out of all the albums we’ve released over the last 20 years, we’ve never released one that we didn’t feel was the best we could do at that time. That goes for every song, every note, everything. That’s why we don’t do anything half-assed.”
And that album art…wow.
See ‘The Storm Within‘ tracklisting below:
01. Distance
02. Passing Trough
03. Someday
04. Astray
05. The Impossible
06. My Allied Ocean
07. In Orbit (feat. Floor Jansen)
08. The Lonely Monarch
09. The Paradox Of The Flame
10. Disconnect
11. The Storm Within
