EVERGREY again teamed up with Jacob Hansen, who — just like with the band’s previous releases “The Storm Within” and 2014’s “Hymns For The Broken” — took care of mixing and mastering.

EVERGREY‘s Tom S. Englund stated about the album’s lyrical concept: “I think during the writing for the ‘Hymns For The Broken’ album, I started writing the lyrics, and I figured that I was writing about somebody else — somebody who was transitioning from being one person, leaving something that he was feeling secure within his life and entering another world. During that album, I realized that I was pretty much writing about myself, so I would say that ‘Hymns For The Broken’ was about realizing that you needed to make a move, while ‘The Storm Within’ was about the realization and the honesty that, fuck, this isn’t going to work anymore — I have to leave, and the frustration and the fears and the darkness and all of that that came with that, but also some sort of hope for the future. At the same time, it wasn’t set in play, and that’s where ‘The Atlantic’ comes in. That’s when you put both feet in the water and start shoving out the ship and leaving. I’m not saying that I’m on the other side of the ocean yet, but at least I embarked on the journey. The Atlantic — or any ocean — represents so much of what life is, really — the crashing waves, the darkness and the depths and the loneliness and the big vastness and feeling small in a huge world, and not knowing what is on the other side of the ocean and how that’s going to treat you, [and] who you’re going to become.”

“The Atlantic” track listing:

01. A Silent Arc
02. Weightless
03. All I Have
04. A Secret Atlantis
05. The Tidal
06. End Of Silence
07. Currents
08. Departure
09. The Beacon
10. This Ocean

The cover art was created by Giannis Nakos and can be seen below.