Evergrey is a Progressive Metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was
founded in 1996 and released its debut album The Dark Discovery in 1998.
Their most recent album is Monday Morning Apocalypse, released in 2006.
Lyrical themes Evergrey's lyrics have always been of the darker sort. The
same can be said of the band's imagery. While The Dark Discovery dealt
with a variety of ideas, later albums have been concept albums, dealing
with issues like self-reformation (Recreation Day), paranoia, alien
abduction (In Search of Truth), child abuse, cults and religion (The Inner
Circle).
Recreation Day is an album that covers many issues, ranging from death and
mourning to general fear and sorrow, all of which contribute to a greater
concept of re-creation of oneself. These ideas are explored from many
different points of view, such as someone contemplating suicide ("As I Lie
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