The Grey Area

Hey !!!

Pheeeeeeeeeeewwwww…. it’s been a long fucking year negotiating this deals, not something we’ve enjoyed too much , it’s taken its toll on everything from economy to psyche. BUT now it’s finally done and we are extremely curious on what the future has in it’s hands for us !

We have made changes in everything surrounding Evergrey , everything from management, record-label to booking and, perhaps most important, changed our own approach to this thing called EVERGREY.

It came to a time a while ago where we ALL were tired of everything surrounding this bitch called the music-industry. It affected our whole perception of what and who we were, it most certainly killed everything close to joy and in the end made it feel like a boring 9 - 5 job where you don’t like your co-workers and just want to go home.

But as I said , we’ve been through that now and coming out on the other end of this rather dark tunnel are 5 guys who have the same determination, goals and fire to keep this ball spinning for another couple of laps!

Below you have the 3rd trailer that I know you have been eagerly awaiting , somethings up with the compression level that makes the pics smaller so those look like shit… but hey …. you’re here to h e a r the God-damned thing, right ? It contains all song titles for the regular edition of this release and the release day is the 2nd week of September but , you’ll see something will probably come up and change that for the 10th time…..

I hope you enjoy it and we wish to hear ALL your thoughts , as they are what matter the most to us !

Below is also the new cover , spill your guts about that too.

yours in metal

Tom, Henrik, Jonas, Rikard and Jari

Hey guys

We wanted to let you know that o Jonas (Ekdahl) will be answering questions about anything and everything from you guys, might be about drums or his favourite food, whatever,  its your choice.

 Here are the instructions:*Send a message to the Evergrey MySpace profile with the subject “Jonas interview question”*Write your question to the message body (only ONE question per friend accepted)The deadline for sending in the questions is Wednesday the 9th of April. After that date the 20 best questions will be picked and sent to Jonas.

And man did those shirts go over well ! we have never had so many orders coming in so fast,  and for those who are interested there’s still a few left.

So be sure to check this place for updates.

Later

Evergrey.

So here it is guys, the April edition of our trailers.Just to clarify, these are excerpts of many different songs, it’s not one song as some of you seemed to think when watching the 1st one. Be sure to let us know what you think! We sure hope you’ll enjoy it …More news coming soon!

All the best Tom, Henrik, Rikard , Jonas and Jari

Hey Guys…

Just a few words to let you know that we had a great time in Finland, the shows were really awesome and the finnish fans R O C K!

We knew that already but it was nice to see that what we remembered from prior shows were really true.

We are almost done with our label-negotiations and think we will be able to present a release date within 2 weeks , and just to clarify, we have lot’s of history with different labels that we needed to clear up before signing a new deal with anyone. This has taken so much longer than anticipated, I mean we have been sending contacts back and forth since last JUNE,    so of course this has been really frustrating for us as musicians, but at the same time we’ve been forced to be really business-minded. BUT …. as I said we are now down to one label and hope to tell you which one really soon.

During the month of April we decided to sign all of the stuff bought in our webstore and dedicate it to the person who’s on the order-form. ( that is if you want us to of course, we wouldnt want to fuck your cd’s up ) So if you dont want them signed,or if it is for another name, write that in the order .

Also we made some really cool shirts for the shows in Finland , we have a couple of them left so be sure to check that out . www.evergrey.net/merch.php

Monday or Tuesday we will hand you the 2nd “TORN” Trailer so you know where and when to check !

Til’ next time …..

‘ t

Wassup!

After a couple of turbulent weeks we have now finally mastered our album.

When we listened to the finished product for the first time we all agreed that we were beyond satisfied with the result and can’t wait for you to hear it! We have also decided to post video teasers for you to enjoy, there will be a new “trailer” every month up until we release the damn thing and oh, the title for it is  “ T O R N ” !

Complete tracklisting will be presented here as soon as we have decided what songs will end up on special editions and / or bonus tracks for singles etc.

Other than that I am glad to read that all of you seem to love our new Evergrey “EY” logo. It will look pretty cool on a shirt that’s for sure.

Tomorrow we play a show in Mariestad with our friends from All Ends so those of you who have the chance please stop by.

Summer festivals and tours for the fall are being booked as I write so be sure to check this area for all official confirmations. We will start rehearsing songs from TORN next week so MAYBE, and I mean maybe, we will play some of them in Finland in two weeks. Playing Finland is always a blast and it’s nice to be with people that can keep up with us on the booze . Both me and Jari have lot’s of relatives and friends coming out to the shows so that should be fun.

Tampere on the 19th and Helsinki on the 20th be sure to join in if you have the chance.

So enjoy the music combined with the fantastic photos courtesy of our friend René Asmussen http://www.reneasmussen.com/ - an award-winning Danish photgrapher who have graced us with his work which will be used in the booklet for ” TORN ” .  That alone will be worth the money .

please let us know your feelings, ideas expectations after hearing what you now will hear.

Later

‘ t

Hey there !¨

We have once again been really buried in work and therefor have not been able to update you for a couple of weeks.

We are FINALLY in the mixing stage of the album and that truly feels like a blessing.

Today we finished the 8th song for mixdown and it sounds A W E S O M E !

We will be finished before New Years and then we will take a couple of weeks of well needed and deserved rest.

We have also been in Israel which was a fantastic experience, to visit such an old country with all of it’s history and beauty, Jerusalem is really fascinating . Tel Aviv felt like a mixiture of Miami and New York which was really cool and the audience fucking awesome, we are really looking forward to going there again.

Well we will leave you with a small christmas gift which holds more than you think !

So to all of you from all of us have Merry Christmas and a happy New Year

Tom , Henrik, Jonas, Rikard and Jari

Hey guys , we are very busy writing the last songs for the album.

Thant’s wy we ahve not updated in a while, but that will be worth your while since we decided to make this weeks videoclip a bit longer than the older ones.

This week we ahve been writing in my homestudio and so far came up with 2 REALLY great songs which I am sure will end up on the album. Rikard and Jonas moved out to the studio yesterday and will pretty much stay there until the album is finished.

Henrik and I will probably finsish up what we have left to do while J and R are starting the recording of the Keyboards.

Jari will be here on Thursday and after that we will play on a kind of a Metal Cruise on Friday to Saturday. Imagine a ship full of 3000 metalheads , I sure hope they stacked up a lot of alcohol.

The week after that we’re going to Israel and Tel Aviv, a thing that we are looking forward to very much since we had a cancellation there a while back.

See us soon

‘t

Hey again ...

2nd time today ...here's this weeks motion-picture!

You know what to do 

' t 

Hey guys !

Another week of pure fuckin metal mayhem has begun ! : ))
Anyway. I finsihed all the guitar parts I had left for the first 8 songs, and it all went so much smoother than I ever could have imagined .
I have to explain this for you first, when we write songs for an album, we do just that, we do not rehearse them before we record them , so everyone is pretty much just rehearsing by themselves . We are sending files back and forth and of course there are LOTS of discussions. I don’t know why we have chosen this way of getting it done but it has it’s pros and cons.

For instance, it is hell to sit and try to pick put what the hell you’re playing but at the same time writing like that makes it all much more fresh and spontanious. The real problems come whenever we will start to rehearse the songs for tours when NOONE have played them together with anyone …..  Maybe we’re stupid …. We have been working like this since “in search of truth” Too lazy to jam it out , hehe..

Today Henrik’s doing guitars for a song called “Fear” and probably continuing with drums on a new song called “Numb”. On Monday we will start writing again for 10 -15 days, to finish the last couple of ideas for songs we have. It’s pretty cool since we haven’t listened to those ideas at all since before we started the recording. That really should bring some objectivity.

We will try to post a new video clip tomorrow or Friday.

So you know where and what to check ..

Later….

 ’ t

Hi Guys !
We started a new week of recording and its all shaping up nicely! REALLY great , I recorded guitars for 4 songs now and Henrik and Jonas have been tracking. Jonas have also started to rehearse a new song that we will record next week.

Jari went home to Norway and will be back a week before our next gigs in Sweden and Israel so in between those we will lay down the last of his basses on 4-5 songs… Rikard was here yesterday copying all the songs unto his harddrive so that he can sit at home rehearsing before it’s his turn.

After next wednesday we will take a break from the recording and go into writing/composing mode again for a couple of weeks and I think we will bring the camera into those situations as well. I will record some vocals in my homestudio as that’s where I feel the most comfortable and can create undisturbed.

Henrik came up with some really great ideas the other day for a new song that will be awesome, I’m sure.

I have to dig deeper into the lyrics and vocal-lines for a couple of days as well, something I do best by myself.

So there’s A LOT going on .

We will have a couple of competitions coming up in the next weeks where you will be able to win some cool merchandise and some other signed stuff… so be sure to check this space out for more specifics on that.

Lot’s of respect !

Tom

Oh … Almost forgot, here’s another video week enjoy ad be sure to keep those comments coming.