EVERGREY
A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)
NAPALM Progressive Swedes celebrate their 25th anniversary in style
It’s a case of lucky 13 for Gothenburg’s experienced prog-metal-meets-goth outfit. Evergrey crafted one of the finest records of their career in 2021’s Escape Of The Phoenix. Their latest continues this process, putting further daylight between the five-piece and a slightly sticky period. Evergrey’s raison d’être is the telling of stories, and in Tom Englund they boast a raconteur par excellence. His strong, clean voice soars majestically above Henrik Danhage’s pummelling guitars, the symphonic, ear-caressing keyboards of Rikard Zander and those bruising yet often choral-sounding arrangements. This is classy stuff. After a quarter of a century, Evergrey really should be better-known than they are.