band Q&A (2020):

– What is the meaning of the album title “Alter Echo”?

Tim: It took a while to come up with a title for this new album. For a long time, the working title, and the idea for the title, was just the number “4”. And with the excuse that it would then be a wink to our idols – our own heroes, Led Zeppelin, for example, who did “Zeppelin IV”, and Black Sabbath did “Vol. 4”, not to mention Shu-bi-dua who did “Shu-bi-dua 4”, and so forth. And perhaps it should be titled, just, “Dizzy 4”. We also found that a bit easy, perhaps a bit boring as well, so we made an extra effort.

Søren: Tim had this echo pedal named “Alter Ego”, actually, and we found that a fun wordplay, because “alter ego” is one’s other self.

Martin: “Echo” has to do with sound, but “alter” can also mean to change something. So it sums up this album pretty well: We have undergone some kind of change.

Tim: This album is an alternative, or a renewed, perhaps updated, version of this band that many of you already know.

[my translation from Danish]

album: Alter Echo (2020)
artist: Dizzy Mizz Lizzy
writers: Music by Tim Christensen (1-10) / Lyrics by Tim Christensen & Marcus Winther-John (2-8)

guitars: Tim Christensen
electric bass: Martin Nielsen
(keyboards: Tim Christensen)
(drums: Søren Friis)
(percussion: Rune Olesen)

Tim Christensen listed his main inspiratiosn for this album in his top 10:

• Gojira: Magna (2016)

• MONO: Nowhere Now Here (2019)

• Pelican: Nighttime Stories (2019)

• YOB: Our Raw Heart (2018)

• Zeal & Ardor: Stranger Fruit (2018)

• Uncle Acid: The Night Creeper (2015)

• Katatonia: The Fall of Hearts (2016)

• Metallica: Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (2016)

• Elder: Reflections of a Floating World (2017)

• Bell Witch: Mirror Reaper (2017)