''Hunter Gatherer'' is the eighth studio album by Swedish
heavy metal band
Avatar
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, released on 7 August 2020.
Background
The band recorded their eighth studio album at Sphere Studios in
Burbank, California
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, US, with additional overdubs at Suomenlinnan Studio in
Helsinki
Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...
, Finland, and Spinroad Studios in
Lindome
Lindome () is a civil parish and a locality situated in Mölndal Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 13,830 inhabitants in the parish in 2009 (11,037 inhabitants in the locality in 2010). The Swedish comic creator Rune Andreasson ...
, Sweden. Jay Ruston returned as producer; he had produced the band's previous album ''
Avatar Country''.
Song information
Avatar released their first music video of the album for the song "Silence in the Age of Apes" on 14 May 2020. The song was said to be inspired by a book by
Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari ( ; born 1976) is an Israeli medievalist, military historian, public intellectual, and popular science writer. He currently serves as professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first bestse ...
called ''
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind''. The band later released a music video for "Colossus".
Track listing
Personnel
* Jonas "Kungen" Jarlsby – guitars
* John Alfredsson – drums
* Johannes Eckerström – lead vocals
* Henrik Sandelin – bass, backing vocals
* Tim Öhrström – guitars, backing vocals
Charts
References
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2020 albums
Avatar (Swedish band) albums