We just received these news items from the Evergrey camp and would like to pass them along to everyone.

As you all know, Fredrik Larsson was the temporary bass player after Michael left. Fredrik has now re-joined Hammerfall. The Evergrey crew wish him all the best in the future. He is still a good friend of the band.

New songs have been and are being recorded. Tom and Henrik are doing all the bass playing in the studio at this moment, so bass is not an issue at this time. Jonas and Rikard are also participating in writing lyrics and music for the new album. The recording session is scheduled to be done by the end of the summer.

The new album will be launched before Christmas. For all Fans out there, this album is HEAVY! In my ears probably the heaviest they have ever done.

After releasing the new album Evergrey will start touring. By that time a bass player should be selected for the band (hired or permanent, future will tell...).

There are also some new endorsement contracts being negotiated at this time. It's still too early to announce as of yet.

A new label is being sought after...more to come on that later.

Kind regards

Z.P.
Evergrey Business Cordinator

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey

According to their official website, the Swedish band is looking for a new bass player. And you can be the new Evergrey bass player by sending your bio, pic and samples (either video or mp3) of your playing to tom@evergrey.net

Applicants should be either living in Sweden or be able to move there.

Click here for further details.

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Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey

The following announcement has been posted on Evergrey's website:

"As you may remember we were unfortunately forced to cancel our performance in Bucharest, Romania two months ago. This was due to a vehicle malfunction and totally out of our control. We then said we would come back to make up for this, and guess what - now we are returning to Bucharest, Romania!

Saturday April 21st is the day that we will be at Sala Preotasa in Bucharest. We will fly all the way from Sweden to Romania just to see our Romanian fans so make sure you don't miss it!"

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey
Event:	Evergrey

Swedish metallers Evergrey will embark on their first Eastern European tour in January. Confirmed dates are as follows:

Jan. 11 - Nitra, SK - Stara Pekaren
Jan. 12 - Budapest, HUN - Kultiplex
Jan. 14 - Larissa, GRE - Live Music House
Jan. 15 - Plovdiv, BUL - Geo Milev Hall
Jan. 17 - Sofia, BUL - Sredec Hall
Jan. 19 - Ankara, TUR - Saklikent
Jan. 20 - Istanbul, TUR - Studio Live
Jan. 21 - Bukarest, ROM - Sala Preoteasa
Jan. 22 - Belgrad, SER - Dom Omladine
Jan. 23 - Zagreb, CRO - Mochvara
Jan. 24 - Wörgl, AUT - Komma

Support on the trek (except in Nitra and Budapest) will come from the Norwegian band Stonegard.

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey
Event:	Evergrey: Eastern Europe Tour

Evergrey have just entered their rehearsal studio to prepare their next album. Recording for the new album is scheduled to start in February next year, and continue through until March. A tentative release date of May 2007 has been set.

Here is a comment by vocallist/guitarist Tom S. Englund: "So far the material sounds about the heaviest and darkest we have released to date".

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey

Evergrey, Girlschool and Steelhart have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 22-23, 2007 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

Brainstorm, Edguy, Evergrey, Finntroll, Girlschool, Mercenary, Mystic Prophecy, Nazareth, Praying Mantis, Steelhart, Thunder

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Evergrey
Event:	Bang Your Head!!! 2007

Swedish metallers Evergrey have lined up the following European tour dates with up-and-coming melodic death metal band Avatar as support:

Oct. 06 - Canary Islands, Canarias MetalZone Festival (without Avatar)
Oct. 24 - München (DE), Metropolis
Oct. 25 - Milano (ITA), Rainbow
Oct. 27 - Madrid (ESP), Caracol
Oct. 28 - Bilbao (ESP), Kafe Antzoki
Oct. 29 - Barcelona (ESP), Apolo
Oct. 30 - Lyon (FR), Transbordeur
Oct. 31 - Paris (FR), Nouveau Casino
Nov. 02 - Strasbourg (FR), Laiterie
Nov. 03 - Weert (NL), De Bosuil
Nov. 06 - London (UK), Dingwalls
Nov. 07 - Dudley (UK), JBs
Nov. 08 - Bolton (UK), The Soundhouse
Nov. 09 - Bradford (UK), Rio
Nov. 10 - Zaandam (NL), Kade
Nov. 12 - Bochum (DE), The Matrix
Nov. 13 - Copenhagen (DK), The Rock
Nov. 18 - Växjö (SW), Folkets Park (without Avatar)
Nov. 25 - Blomstermåla (SW), Blomsterrocken (without Avatar)

Evergrey recently parted ways with bassist Michael Håkansson. and replaced him with former Hammerfall member Fredrik Larsson.

Source:	bravewords.com
Band profile:	Evergrey

Michael Håkansson has decided to part ways with Evergrey. The new bass player will be the band's long-time friend Fredrik Larsson (Hammerfall, Cans). Michael has left the following message for all the Evergrey fans:

"After a long time of consideration and many, many hours of thinking I now, with sadness, announce my departure from the band.
I have been a part of the band for seven years and during that time I have experienced so much and I have seen more than I ever thought I would. But now it is time for me to say goodbye.
My reason for doing this is that I feel a strong urge to do something different in music. This is the one and only reason and it's 100% my own decision.
I want to thank the boys for all the good times we have had together thoughout the years. I wish them the best of all success, something they truly deserve and without doubt will achieve."

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey

Evergrey and Necrophobic have been confirmed for the Mälarrocken Festival, set to take place June 30 - July 2 in Västerås, Sweden. More information is available at www.malarrocken.se

Source:	malarrocken.se
Band profile:	Evergrey
Event:	MälarRocken

Evergrey recently returned to Division One Studios to record their as yet untitled fifth studio album. The producing and mixing will be handled by the experienced and extremely successful team Sanken Sandquist / Stefan Glauman. Their track record includes artists like Rammstein, Britney Spears, Bon Jovi and Def Leppard.

The band's vocalist/guitarist/mastermind Tom S. Englund had this to say regarding the new collaboration, "We feel honoured to work with such amazing producers. We are sure that they will succeed in making us sound better than ever before."

Evergrey have renewed their deal with InsideOut Music for one more album. The release is planned for April 2006.

In other news, Evergrey will perform at Sweden Rock Festival's kick-off party at Annexet in Stockholm on December 3rd.

http://www.evergrey.net

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A message posted on the official homepage of the band:
We have uploaded a preview of the upcoming DVD. Feel free to check it out! Enjoy: http://www.evergrey.net/media/vid-evergrey-more_than_ever.wmv

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey

InsideOut Music will release EVERGREY's new live CD, A Night To Remember, on March 15th.

The band's forthcoming double DVD, which features their 19 song live performance in their hometown of Gothenburg, Sweden, was filmed with 15 hi-def cameras by video producer Patrick Ullaeus (Lacuna Coil, In Flames, Dimmu Borgir, etc.) and will include all six of the group's videos to date. Also, a whole DVD of backstage material, in-depth interviews with each of the members, gear-talk, live material from the beginning of their career, festivals, old demo songs and tons of pictures!

Look for the DVD to hit stores in April.

http://www.evergrey.net

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Evergrey

The following message was sent by Michael Håkansson to the official site of the band:

"Greetings Clan members,
On the 9th of October we will record our first Live DVD here in Gothenburg. We will for sure make this is a night to remember. It will be the most glorious thing in Evergrey history and we feel that we want to have all of you there to help us make this night perfect. So all of you people from outside of Sweden who want to attend at this special night, send an email to me with the subject DVD and you will be put on a special guestlist for the show.
Stay Grey and we'll see you on October 9th!!!"

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey

EVERGREY guitarist Henrick Danhage recently spoke to KaffeineBuzz.com about the group's new CD, "The Inner Circle", and their current North American tour with ICED EARTH and CHILDREN OF BODOM, among other topics. Asked if they are trying to come across as "a more emotional power metal band instead of having a science fiction backdrop," Henrick replied, "I don't compare us as a power metal or a progressive metal band. I want to make a point about that - I think we're really different from all those bands. I'm not badmouthing any other bands, 'cause I believe what they play is what they want to do. But I don't want to get caught up in that prog metal shit, because we're not a prog metal band. I could call us a progressive metal band as far as I would say that OPETH or MESHUGGAH is a progressive metal band. But many bands equal standing up and jerking scales. In my book that has nothing to do with music. They're just fucking geeks. But I'm not dissing any bands 'cause they can do whatever they want."

With regards to how they're entertaining themselves on the bus while touring with ICED EARTH, Danhage said, "Alcohol, weed, women, you know - all the standard American stuff . I mean, we share a bus with CHILDREN OF BODOM. They're from Finland. We're crazy Scandinavians. I feel bad for the bus driver 'cause that's not a fun gig. You got 12 drunken people on the bus everyday . It's been good. ICED EARTH treats us really good. There's a lot of stories , but we went into this with a kind of blank eyes. We took it from zero, so we don't care because it has nothing to do with us."

Read EVERGREY guitarist Henrick Danhage's entire interview with KaffeineBuzz.com

http://www.kaffeinebuzz.com/interviews-evergrey.php

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A recording of EVERGREY's April 18 performance at Lava Room Recording Studios in Cleveland, Ohio as part of "The Metal Show"'s (92.3 FM WXTM) "Unleashed" live metal series will be available on the Internet for fans to listen to this week. The performance will air in its entirety on Saturday, May 1 at 8:30 p.m. EST exclusively at www.themetalshow.com. There is no charge to listen to the audio streams of this performance.

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