Listen to Avatar’s dancey new single, Death And Glitz

Avatar have just dropped a dancey new single, Death And Glitz.

Frontman Johannes Eckerström explains that the band’s latest track is about “perversion and detachment. A homeless, young runaway collapses and dies on a dancefloor. The crime scene tape becomes a red velvet rope. The investigator’s camera flashes like paparazzi on the red carpet. We love her for dying. Now she’s perfect. Obedient. Anything you want. The true crime genre is as sick as the sickest goregrind band you’ve ever heard. Its popularity and the form in which it’s being consumed, as a choice between Mickey Mouse and hospital dramas, reveals a darkness.

“The best ones are when it’s someone young and attractive,” he continues. “A couple goes hiking. Only the man returns. What do we project on this very real person’s very real tragedy? Do we see ourselves, with a strange envy for being so desired? Do we see a canvas on which we can paint the perfect future, if we were there to make it right? Do we completely dehumanize the victim and those who lost her, obsessed with the puzzle? No matter the reason, it is clear that no-one is more obedient than the dead. People simply like it when death has a nice rack.”

Death And Glitz is taken from Avatar’s new album Don’t Go In The Forest, which is due out on October 31. Check it out below:

Catch Avatar on their 2026 UK and European headline tour, as well as supporting Metallica in the summer.

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