> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.thisdayinmetal.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # AVATAR ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM DON'T GO IN THE FOREST OUT OCTOBER 31 - URL: https://www.thisdayinmetal.com/avatar-announce-new-album-dont-go-in-the-forest-out-october-31/ - Published: 2025-08-27T04:11:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-08-27T04:11:00.000Z - Author: Metalhead Marv - Tags: News, Avatar **AVATAR ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM *DON'T GO IN THE FOREST* OUT OCTOBER 31** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/e2/dbe2ac7e-62ef-4b13-917a-63221a045127/content/images/2025/08/IMG_7490.jpeg) **BAND SHARES "TONIGHT WE MUST BE WARRIORS" VIDEO —** [**WATCH**](https://atomsplitterpr.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db1855ab84d45f76eff7f68dd&id=eda035fcf7&e=ee4653eed1&ref=thisdayinmetal.com) **HEADLINE U.S. TOUR SET FOR FALL 2025** **INTERNATIONAL TOURING SET THROUGH 2026, INCLUDING DATES SUPPORTING METALLICA** Consider this your fair warning, but whether you heed it or not will make all the difference. The heavy metal visionaries collectively known as **AVATAR** — vocalist **Johannes Eckerström**, guitarists **Jonas Jarlsby** and **Tim Öhrström**, bassist **Henrik Sandelin**, and drummer **John Alfredsson** — are thrilled to announce the thoroughly fitting October 31 release of their latest masterwork ***Don't Go in the Forest***. Pre-save it [here](https://atomsplitterpr.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db1855ab84d45f76eff7f68dd&id=d67214936b&e=ee4653eed1&ref=thisdayinmetal.com). The band also shared the video for "**Tonight We Must Be Warrior**s." Watch it [here](https://atomsplitterpr.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db1855ab84d45f76eff7f68dd&id=f48c236776&e=ee4653eed1&ref=thisdayinmetal.com). "It has become a necessity to me over the years to be able to answer one question: Why is this important? It can't be just another album. We need to discover something, try something else. It has to come from the heart. What is being said matters,” says vocalist Eckerström regarding the release of single "Tonight We Must Be Warriors." He continues, "In days of isolation and despair, maybe we need to be reminded that we are not alone? We are one of many. Maybe we also need a reminder that the burden is on our shoulders? To get it done, we need to do the fighting ourselves.” He finishes, "In our shared pain, we find solidarity." Regarding the album, Eckerström offers, "The secret ingredient is that we still feel like we're just getting started. *Don't Go In The Forest* is an album filled to the brim with stuff we've never done before. It's all songs and concepts we haven't been close to touch until now. The mind is wild and we have lost ourselves in the darkest woods, filled with memories, and fantasies. Forbidden thoughts that must be spoken." He concludes, "It would have been impossible to make this album at any other time than now. That's all we ever wanted, and I think you'll find it's all you ever wanted too." Did you enter the forest via the new track? Avatar have gone from strength to strength over the past several years. There's the critically acclaimed, 2023-released album ***Dance Devil Dance***, which included their first #1 at Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay, "**The Dirt I'm Buried In**." There have been scores of sold-out headline shows across the globe, and an actual fossil named after them. The list goes on and on. But the past is the past and the future is, well, dark in the best possible way and that's JUST how Avatar like it! The track listing for *Don't Go in the Forest* will be revealed in due course. The band has previously shared "[CAPTAIN GOAT](https://atomsplitterpr.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db1855ab84d45f76eff7f68dd&id=25efca208e&e=ee4653eed1&ref=thisdayinmetal.com)" and "[In the Airwaves](https://atomsplitterpr.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db1855ab84d45f76eff7f68dd&id=2a5209122c&e=ee4653eed1&ref=thisdayinmetal.com)." Avatar will spend the foreseeable future (if not forever) on the road — with forthcoming tours supporting Iron Maiden and Metallica, along with the band's biggest show EVER in Mexico City. See below for a complete rundown of the band's planned tour activity for the next two years. Avatar show no signs of pausing to take a breath in their quest for absolute world domination — much less stopping. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/db/e2/dbe2ac7e-62ef-4b13-917a-63221a045127/content/images/2025/08/IMG_7492.png) **2025 U.S. HEADLINE TOUR:** 11/5 — Phoenix, AZ — The Van Buren 11/6 — San Diego, CA — The Observatory San Diego 11/7 — Riverside, CA — Riverside Municipal Auditorium 11/8 — Las Vegas, NV — Brooklyn Bowl 11/10 — Seattle, WA — Moore Theater 11/11 — Portland, OR — Roseland Theatre 11/12 — Boise, ID — Revolution 11/14 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Union 11/15 — Denver, CO — Fillmore 11/17 — Minneapolis, MN — Fillmore 11/18 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee 11/20 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore Detroit 11/21 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE 11/22 — Columbus, OH — KEMBA Live! 11/23 — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore Silver Spring 11/25 — Huntington, NY — Paramount 11/26 — Boston, MA — House of Blues 11/28 — Allentown, PA — Archer Music Hall 11/29 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore Charlotte 11/30 — Louisville, KY — Old Forester's Paristown Hall 12/2 — Chicago, IL — Riviera Theater 12/4 — Nashville, TN — Marathon Music Works 12/6 — Tulsa, OK — Tulsa Theater 12/7 — Dallas, TX — House of Blues **AVATAR ARE** Johannes Eckerström — Vocalist Jonas Jarlsby — Guitarist Tim Öhrström — Guitarist Henrik Sandelin — Bassist John Alfredsson — Drummer