{"id":121,"date":"2011-11-18T16:13:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=121"},"modified":"2012-05-02T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T10:49:26","slug":"interview-evergrey-talk-about-north-american-tour-gear-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2011\/11\/18\/interview-evergrey-talk-about-north-american-tour-gear-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Evergrey Talk About North American Tour, Gear (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"evergrey\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-snc7\/310402_254335824617973_133190223399201_748042_435895633_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Swedish prog-power outfit Evergrey have been around for more than 15 years, and through eight studio albums, they have successfully expressed themselves with music that&#8217;s melodic, heavy, dark and progressive. The judicious combination of these elements is their major strength, and separates them from other bands that play a similar style of music.<!--more-->In the early part of this year, they released their latest studio album &#8220;Glorious Collision&#8221;, which not only boasts of a fantastic cover artwork, but also solidifies the group&#8217;s reputation as constantly developing musicians.<\/p>\n<p>After a long gap, they finally landed in America and did a tour across the continent. The LA area show was at the Key Club on October 6th, and a few hours before they hit the stage, I sat down with guitarists Tom Englund and Marcus Jidell to talk about this tour, the new album, gear, and other things. 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