Text: Caj Källmalm Photo: Ville Juurikkala/Spinefarm (Universal) From: 2013-02

The Swedish-Danish band Amaranthe and their six men strong line-up had decent success with their debut album, released two years ago. Now they’re back again with their second album and it’s been a never constantly rolling journey ever since the debut. We decided to check the mood before the release with the creator of the band - Jake E - to see what we had to expect.

Amaranthe- to Japan just a couple of weeks ars ago when Jake and the guita- after the Fukushima incident and - got the idea to do something dif- Plenty of touring ing from Hammerfall to Limp Biz- ferent. At this stage the project kit- as he speaks a fair bit of English remember it. - Me and Olof started the band on it in 2013. somewhere around 2008-2009. Dreamland and Amaranthe (ori- the international success of the starting in March with a tour AmaAmaAvalanche Stratovarius !!anan""ee alongside touring as well. asking Jake what we can expect - from this package if we decide to with 100+ shows and a couple of go see them? joined the band as the original laps around the planet. - A great tour with two super Anything particularly memo- - rable? - ted to get interested in the band - sions?

Hallowed PDF-Magazine 206 Amaranthe on the web: 207 Hallowed PDF-Magazine Design: Caj Källmalm http://www.amaranthe.se/ Design: Caj Källmalm Amaranthe res somewhere around the 20th character for the band. warming up in Ängelholm (Swe- the same producer in the same chance to get a little bit more fa- - studio and with the same band start the tour for real in Finland miliar with the album as the band - - but Jake still found a couple of - The sent the entire album but still be these like it as well. oid most of the “hows” and ins- differences between this time Nexus - just like the album. But it Neither the single or the al- tead focused on the bettering the and last. was no clear cut decision to chose Amaranthe A New Album to their debut album and instead - we went in to the studio but this this time is of course a new al- - - end we went for the title track. demos before going to the stu-

Hallowed PDF-Magazine 208 Amaranthe on myspace: Amaranthe on youtube: 209 Hallowed PDF-Magazine Design: Caj Källmalm http://www.myspace.com/amaranthemetal http://www.youtube.com/user/AmarantheMusicVEVO Design: Caj Källmalm Which fictional character are the Ama- ranthe members most alike (acc. to Jake E) Elize Ryd (female vocals) - Garry (The Spongebob squarepants snail) Andreas “Andy” Solveström (harsh vocals) - Ior Olof Mörck (guitar & keys) - Legolas Morten Løwe Sørensen (drums) - The Hulk Johan Andreassen (bass) - Grinchen Jake E (clean male vocals) - Tigerr (Winnie the Poh) Thomas (manager) - Grampa smurf

Hansen as just a producer. rector Patric Ullaeus. changes we wanted to do once - - we were in the studio. the market when it comes to ma- - Cool video - and what the future brings is just lists. ductions than his. a bit more with the members of work with such a great producer And Jake also worked with the to do that than to know which Fixxxer The Nexus- -

Hallowed PDF-Magazine 210 Amaranthe on reverbnation: Amaranthe on last.fm: 211 Hallowed PDF-Magazine Design: Caj Källmalm http://www.reverbnation.com/amaranthe http://www.last.fm/music/Amaranthe Design: Caj Källmalm