Everygrey signs with SPV, album Torn to be released!

Popular Swedish metal band Evergrey – masters of black melodic metal – have been signed by noted German hard rock and metal label SPV/Steamhammer. The deal not only includes the band's upcoming new album, Torn, but also their entire back album catalog.

SPV Head of Labels Ulrike Rudolph says, "we are all happy to welcome Evergrey to the SPV/Steamhammer Family, and are looking forward to a great future together." Evergrey mastermind Tom S. Englund is also looking forward to working with Steamhammer, explaining "after long and intense negotiations, we feel that we have arrived at optimum conditions for everybody involved. We are confident that Evergrey will continue to grow artistically under the terms of this contract, that SPV will enjoy our cooperation and – this is definitely the most important aspect - that our fans will thoroughly benefit from the new deal."

Evergrey's Torn, consisting of eleven new songs from the band, will be released by SPV in early September 2008. According to Englund, Torn is a return to the band's previous sound of metallic onslaught: "The tracks are all guitar-oriented and very atmospheric. They have exactly the sound that our fans expect from us." As for the band's back catalog, which consists of six studio albums, deluxe reissues are planned, with bonus tracks rescued from the band's archives.