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| Released | 7 August 2020 | |||
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| Length | 45:28 | |||
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| Producer | Jay Ruston | |||
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Hunter Gatherer is the eighth studio album by Swedish heavy metal band Avatar, released on 7 August 2020.
The band recorded their eighth studio album at Sphere Studios in Burbank, California, US, with additional overdubs at Suomenlinnan Studio in Helsinki, Finland, and Spinroad Studios in Lindome, Sweden. [3] Jay Ruston returned as producer; he had produced the band's previous album Avatar Country . [4]
Avatar released their first music video of the album for the song "Silence in the Age of Apes" on 14 May 2020. The song was said to be inspired by a book by Yuval Noah Harari called Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind .[ citation needed ] The band later released a music video for "Colossus".
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Silence in the Age of Apes" | 4:21 |
| 2. | "Colossus" | 4:01 |
| 3. | "A Secret Door" | 6:06 |
| 4. | "God of Sick Dreams" | 3:57 |
| 5. | "Scream Until You Wake" | 4:10 |
| 6. | "Child" | 5:33 |
| 7. | "Justice" | 4:41 |
| 8. | "Gun" | 4:31 |
| 9. | "When All but Force Has Failed" | 2:48 |
| 10. | "Wormhole" | 5:20 |
| Total length: | 45:28 | |
| Chart (2020) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [5] | 70 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [6] | 51 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [7] | 43 |
| French Albums (SNEP) [8] | 107 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [9] | 79 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC) [10] | 97 |
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