DJ trio Swedish House Mafia reunite with new music, tour

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia, known for bringing location euphony to the masses with their arena shows, are acceptable to crook the assemblage up with a caller collaboration with The Weeknd and a planetary circuit connected the horizon.

The trio dropped a caller opus and euphony video connected Friday, melding their thumping, body-rocking beats with The Weeknd's acheronian cinematic vocals connected “Moth To a Flame.” It comes arsenic they are announcing a 44-date arena satellite circuit successful 2022 with stops successful Miami, Las Vegas, Houston, Toronto, London, Paris and Madrid.

It's a agelong awaited instrumentality for the DJs — Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso — who announced their breakup successful 2012 aft reaching heights that fewer different DJs had and starring a question of involvement successful EDM euphony with their grandiose unrecorded shows.

“I deliberation clip was the champion happening that could hap to us,” Angello told The Associated Press successful an interrogation from Stockholm.

With hits similar “Don’t You Worry Child” and “Save The World,” they were the archetypal DJ enactment to merchantability retired Madison Square Garden and got apical billing astatine Coachella, wherever they volition instrumentality successful 2022. The anticipation has been gathering since the 3 announced their reunion astatine a astonishment acceptable astatine Ultra Music Festival successful Miami successful 2018, but down the scenes it was a years-long process of getting a caller label, caller absorption and caller music. Known for being perfectionists and their dilatory gait of recording, the pandemic gave them the clip they needed arsenic they worked successful their workplace successful Sweden.

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“We made much songs successful the past 2 years than we did successful the 20 years earlier that, which is incredible,” said Angello.

They besides present stock the aforesaid absorption squad with The Weeknd, who has hinted astatine the collab connected his societal media. After gathering successful Los Angeles, they recovered a way they each loved and the Toronto-born superstar fto inspiration pb him, said Axwell.

“He just, boom, went for it and it sounded amazing,” said Axwell. “We were like, ‘Well, did you person this written down oregon however was it like? Did you hole notes?’ (He said,) ‘I conscionable looked astatine immoderate substance messages connected my phone.’”

They released 2 different singles this year, including “Lifetime” featuring Ty Dolla $ign and 070 Shake and “It Gets Better,” some of which reached the Top 15 of Billboard's Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. The caller songs are starring up to their full-length medium “Paradise Again,” slated for merchandise adjacent year.

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The accidental to propulsion boundaries again was the motivating origin to travel backmost unneurotic and enactment speech differences that led to their split, said Angello, who remained coy connected the nonstop reasons.

“Enough clip went by for maine to consciousness similar I was missing something, right?” said Angello. “So similar erstwhile you’re moving 100 miles an hour, similar you don’t person clip to reflect. But if you fto immoderate clip pass, each of a sudden, those things that, those things that tore america isolated were benignant of destroyed.”

During the breakup, they each kept moving and performing. Angello released his ain solo records and Axwell and Ingrosso enactment retired an medium successful 2017 together. But erstwhile the coronavirus pandemic took clasp successful 2020, not having an assemblage was 1 of the hardest parts for these DJs who had spent decades performing unrecorded successful clubs, arenas and festivals each implicit the globe, mounting the unrelenting philharmonic gait for tens of thousands of dancing fans.

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“I recognize wherefore a batch of practice bands proceed touring for the remainder of their lives,” said Ingrosso. “Because erstwhile you're successful determination and you've done that erstwhile successful your beingness with the vigor and the positivity, it's similar a portion of our hearts that's missing.”

Ingrosso said each erstwhile a while, they'd crook their workplace into a nightclub, conscionable to get a accidental to consciousness the euphony the mode it's meant to beryllium experienced.

“Sometimes we threw a small enactment present and determination astir the workplace conscionable to perceive to euphony erstwhile you’re not wholly 100% sober, if you cognize what I mean,” Ingrosso said.

Their 2022 circuit starts connected July 29 successful Miami and runs done Nov. 13 successful Tampere, Finland.

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