The Halo Effect releases new single “Become Surrender”

The Halo Effect, a Swedish melodic death metal band formed by members of Dark Tranquillity and In Flames, is finalizing the details of its long-awaited second studio album after having debuted in 2022 with the excellent Days Of The Lost (Nuclear Blast). At the moment we have been able to hear two previews of their new album titled Path Of Fierce Resistance and The Defiant One, both released in 2023, while today the band has published the third single Become Surrender which you can listen to below:

Michael Stanne, vocalist, stated about The Halo Effect‘s new album in an interview with Finland’s Chaoszine: “It’s done, and it sounds awesome. But, yeah, we were originally supposed to do an EP instead of a full-length album — we had that kind of plan — but then we realized, ‘Ah, maybe not.’ So now we’re gonna release the album beginning of next year and starting with singles and that kind of stuff soon. So it’s really exciting, because we worked really hard just to fit into all of our schedules to make sure that the album was kind of done in time, and then we figured out like a release schedule and a release date and all that stuff. So it’s been — not stressful, but we did a lot during a short period of time, which ended up being fantastic just because it turned out a much more confident album, I think. It’s very focused and you can, you can probably tell — at least from the people that I’ve played it to — that whereas the first time was kind of, like, ‘Hey, let’s figure out what we wanna do,’ whereas this is kind of, like, ‘This is exactly what we wanna do“.

“What we’ve done with this one and the last one was basically we just went into the studio with some ideas. Niclas had many, many ideas, some finished songs, and then he invited us, everybody else, in the songwriting process. So we went in without having a clear plan on how it’s gonna sound, but obviously, it’s in the fingers and it’s in Mikael’s voice. Whatever comes out is the way that it sounds now. So the next record is — you always wanna evolve, obviously, but it’s not different; it’s definitely the same type of genre. And, like I said, we went in and we played what we felt like. And Niclas had written a bunch of songs together with Jesper, and we went in the studio on this one and just did our thing on them“, said bassist Peter Iwis about The Halo Effect‘s new album when asked by Australia’s Everblack podcast.

The Halo Effect tour dates 2024:

The Halo Effect will be accompanying Amon Amarth, Insomnium and Kanonenfieber during the European tour that will begin in July 2024 after finishing the tour in which they will be accompanying Meshuggah that will take place between March and April.

These are the dates of his European tour in addition to the festivals in which Amon Amarth will be performing next year along with The Halo Effect:

Amon Amarth‘s latest studio album is The Great Heathen Army and was released in August 2022 under the Metal Blade Records label. In 2023, the EP Heidrun was released, containing a remix of the song Heidrun, a live version of this same song, a goat remix of Heidrun and a live version of Put Your Back Into The Oar.

Insomnium recently released Songs Of The Dusk, an EP composed of 3 new songs that accompany the successful album Anno 1696 released in February 2023 via Century Media Records. In April 2024 they will embark on a US tour with Omnium Gatherum and Wilderun before the Heidrun Over Europe tour with Amon Amarth.

The Halo Effect, band led by former members of In Flames and vocalist Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity and Grand Cadaver. Their debut album Days Of The Lost was published in 2022 and received very good reviews from the specialized press. The band has released the singles Path Of Fierce Resistance and The Defiant One in 2023, singles that will probably be part of their second album that could be released in early 2024.