Avatar embraces the holiday season with “Naughty List,” a new track recorded with Zakk Wylde (Black Label Society, Ozzy Osbourne, Pantera). The guitarist delivers a solo on this Christmas piece, for which the official video, directed by Johan Carlén, has also just been unveiled!
This collaboration traces back to last summer, when the two artists were performing as the opening act for Metallica. It was Avatar’s guitarist, Tim Öhrström, who proposed to Zakk Wylde to participate in the track.
Beneath its festive theme, “Naughty List” tackles more serious topics, notably difference and acceptance. The singer Johannes Eckerström explains: “The idea is that Santa’s list of punished children brings together people who are different rather than bad, and that someone must defend them as well. It is a song about forgiveness and acceptance, about doing what is right rather than simply following the norm.”
With this new track, Avatar moves away from its usual repertoire for a Christmas song, without relinquishing its taste for offbeat universes.
