Gothenburg´s Finest are back! THE HALO EFFECT present a brand new single to their fans with “Become Surrender“. The track has been a staple of their live shows for a while now, and has quickly become a fan-favourite. It´s a multi-faceted song with neck breaking riffs, grooving drums and beautiful melodies which will leave you spellbound.
Mikael Stanne comments: “‘Become Surrender’ was written and recorded during the Days Of The Lost sessions, but for some reason we left it out of the album. It has been something we have played during festivals and on our tours and the response has been nothing short of fantastic, so we decided to release it in the interim before we start rolling out singles for the second album. The video was shot during our sold out show at Pustervik here in our hometown of Gothenburg in front of a few of our closest friends and hopefully the joy and love we felt in the room that night shines through. It’s a song about perseverance over distance and not giving in to despair or doubt. Turn it up!”
THE HALO EFFECT will join fellow countrymen of MESHUGGAH on their Spring 2024 tour. Don´t miss out on those dates!
07.03. HU Budapest – Barba Negra
08.03. CZ Prague – Forum Karlin
11.03. DE Wiesbaden – Schlachthof
12.03. DE Hamburg – Grosse Freiheit
15.03. PL Warsaw – Stodola
16.03. DE Berlin – Columbiahalle
17.03. PL Krakow – Studio
19.03. DE Munich – Tonhalle
20.03. IT Milan – Alcatraz
21.03. CH Lausanne – Salle Métropole
23.03. ES Bilbao – Santana 27
24.03. ES Madrid – La Riviera
25.03. ES Barcelona – Razzmatazz
28.03. DE Cologne – Palladium
In a last year’s interview with Finland’s Chaoszine, THE HALO EFFECT frontman Mikael Stanne shared details about the forthcoming LP: “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,” he continued. “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.’”
“So it’s, it’s gonna be interesting. I can’t wait to have people hear it because I’m incredibly proud of it.”
When asked whether the upcoming second album by THE HALO EFFECT is a continuation to Days Of The Lost that was released the previous year, Stanne responded: “Yeah, I think so. I think Niclas and Jesper were more confident in terms of their songwriting, where it’s, like, ‘Yeah, this is gonna work.’ And there are some cool experimentation on the album as well, but some of the songs are just like straight up, like there’s no questions. It’s just so easy and so to the point, you know.
“So it’s kind of fun when I get the demo version of a song, and I start thinking about lyrics and vocals, it’s, like, it just makes sense. I just know this by heart. It’s so easy. Which is — it is weird, but it’s just, like, it speaks to me in a way that where I go like, ‘Okay, I know exactly what to do and I can finish it in a matter of days.’ That’s sometimes how it feels. You just hear a song and you go, like, ‘Yep, I know this already. I know exactly what to do. And it’s gonna be great.”
