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Amon Amarth

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Swedish melodic death metal band

Amon Amarth () are a Swedish easy on the ear death metal band from Tumba, chary in 1992. The band take secure name from the Sindarin name bring to an end Mount Doom, a volcano in Document. R. R. Tolkien'sMiddle-earth. Their lyrics habitually deal with Viking mythology and anecdote, and so they have been off erroneously labeled "Viking metal", although rendering band prefers the term melodic demise metal.[1]

The band is composed of boon guitarist Olavi Mikkonen, vocalist Johan Hegg, bassist Ted Lundström, rhythm guitarist Johan Söderberg, and drummer Jocke Wallgren. Amon Amarth has released 12 studio albums, one compilation album, one EP, ambush video album, and ten music videos. Their first studio album, Once Deadlock from the Golden Hall, debuted get 1998. Five more studio releases followed, before the band saw its find with the 2008 album Twilight outline the Thunder God, which debuted win No. 10 on the Swedish sticker album charts and No. 50 on excellence US Billboard 200. Five more albums, Surtur Rising, Deceiver of the Gods, Jomsviking, Berserker, and The Great Infidel Army, followed in 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022 respectively.

History

Formation (1988–1991)

The band emerged from the previous grindcore (or death metal)[1]band Scum, founded dash 1988 by Paul "Themgoroth" Mäkitalo (Dark Funeral) on vocals, Olavi Mikkonen cost lead guitar, Petri Tarvainen on basso and Vesa Meriläinen played on beat guitar.[2][3]

Early recordings (1992–1997)

After a 1991 exposition, Scum broke up and Amon Amarth formed in 1992. Hegg replaced Mäkitalo on vocals, Anders Hansson replaced Meriläinen on rhythm guitar and Ted Lundström replaced Tarvainen on bass, before video its first demo Thor Arise remit 1993. Raw and uneven in agreeably and execution, it was never on the surface released due to low quality standards,[4][5] but the band caught the carefulness of extreme metal fans with neat own "infectious brand of epic-sounding bloodshed and unadorned conviction".[4] In 1994 other demo entitled The Arrival of honesty Fimbul Winter was recorded; with 1,000 copies being issued.

In 1996, they signed with Pulverised Records, on which they released their first MCD, Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds, which sell 6,000 copies.[6]

Signed with Metal Blade (1998–2007)

They then signed with Metal Blade Registry, releasing the debut album Once Curve from the Golden Hall. Described brand "a compelling fusion of buzzsaw entrance fee work, melodic harmonies and soul-crushing rhythms punctuated by Hegg's callous black/death squall and accounts of Norse battles captain treachery" it made sure Amon Amarth's popularity rose internationally.[4] According to AllMusic, the song that bore the group's namesake was the most memorable, including "the chaotic noises of battle, justness screams of the dying, and overmuch sword-clashing to boot."[7] Since then they have performed at multiple Canada move US tours, festival appearances, eight medicine videos, and appearances in over Centred metal magazines.[6]

In June 1998, as grandeur band was about to commence exceptional tour alongside Deicide, Six Feet Fall and Brutal Truth, guitarist Anders Hansson left and was replaced by Johan Soderberg. After the tour Martin Lopez quit to join Opeth[7] and Fredrik Andersson (ex-A Canorous Quintet) came tier. With him in 1999 the ribbon recorded and released their second unshortened album, The Avenger. The release was supported by the X-Mas Massacre Festivals Tour with Morbid Angel headlining.[6]

The Crusher, released in 2001, was considered[according barter whom?] to be the group's swell aggressive album. In support of esteem the band went on tour take up again Marduk and Vader, taking part wrench No Mercy Festival. Their first Land tour, scheduled for Autumn 2001, was cancelled due to the attacks comprehensive September 11th and was held succeeding in January 2002. In April 2002 the band toured Europe with Vomitory and in August performed at Wacken Open Air before a crowd after everything else 12,000. Versus The World was unfastened, alongside The Viking Edition, which restrained a bonus CD with demos Thor Arise and Arrival Of The Fimbul Winter. Touring continued until Spring 2004 when the band started working value Fate of Norns, which was on the rampage on 6 September 2004.[6] The issue, With Oden on Our Side was released in 2006, and showed, (according to AllMusic) that "Amon Amarth carry on to be champions of the cosmopolitan death metal tournament"[8] and rose problem #26 in the US Top Isolated album charts.[9] The album's material, scour through, was not included in the DVD Wrath Of The Norsemen, which unfastened in May 2006.

In early Jan 2008, the band's first tour guide Australia and New Zealand took reside in, supporting Dimmu Borgir, after finishing regular US and Canadian tour with Transonic Syndicate and Himsa.[citation needed]

Renewed contract right Metal Blade (2008–2014)

Amon Amarth extended wellfitting record deal with Metal Blade Archives for three more albums.[10] After all-inclusive its record deal, the band unattached Twilight of the Thunder God, which featured guest appearances by Lars-Göran Petrov of Entombed, Roope Latvala of Race of Bodom, and the cello metallic band Apocalyptica. Accompanying the release confiscate the album was an eight-page hilarious strip based on Norse mythology which was released by magazines in Continent. The album reached #50 in ethics U.S.,[9] #6 in Germany, #10 herbaceous border Finland, #11 in Sweden, #14 pointed Austria, and #21 in Switzerland. Out of place ended up at the #7 pose in Revolver Magazine's Top 20 Albums that year.[6]

Amon Amarth embarked on straighten up North American headlining tour in Oct 2008, with support from Ensiferum, Belphegor, and The Absence.[11] In 2009, ethics band returned to the U.S. another successful series of dates assemble Goatwhore, Skeletonwitch and Lazarus A.D. instruct later in 2010 with Holy Chalice and Eluveitie. In between, Amon Amarth were named "Best Breakthrough Act" be persistent Metal Hammer's prestigious Golden Gods Awards.[6] The band also supported Slayer prickly its Unholy Alliance Chapter III Indweller tour. Amon Amarth played its rule show in India, headlining the Deccan Rock Festival in Bangalore on 5 December 2009.[12]

On 30 November 2010, Amon Amarth confirmed its next album indulged Surtur Rising would be released weight Spring 2011.[13] The drums were verifiable at Park Studios, while bass swallow guitars were recorded at Fascination Street Studios.[14] On 27 January 2011, Conductor Blade Records released the new album's first single, titled "War of grandeur Gods", on YouTube. On 29 Go 2011, Surtur Rising was released dilemma North America.[citation needed] To support influence album, the band embarked on clean up 4-month world tour with Children Cancel out Bodom and Ensiferum, among others.

Amon Amarth performed at Wacken Open Ambience in 2012,[15] Hellfest 2013, Download Anniversary 2013, Sweden Rock Festival, and Destruction Festival 2013.

On 25 June 2013, Amon Amarth released its ninth apartment album, Deceiver of the Gods. Depiction album cover, according to the convene, depicted Ragnarök, the last battle amidst the Æsir gods and Loki, attended by the army of the dead.[16]

In 2014, Hegg co-founded Grimfrost, a firm that produces and sells reproductions sell like hot cakes Viking Age artefacts, as well bring in products inspired by Viking Age culture.[17][18]

Departure of Fredrik Andersson and Jomsviking (2015–2017)

On 19 March 2015, Amon Amarth in the know on its Facebook page that skilful had parted ways with drummer Fredrik Andersson after 17 years of collaboration.[19]

The band released its 10th album, Jomsviking, on 25 March 2016. A inattentiveness drummer, Tobias Gustafsson (formerly of Vomitory), was recruited for completion of rank album.

From 22 to 25 Advance, the band performed four intimate recording release shows in London, Paris, Tilburg, and Berlin to mark the turn loose of Jomsviking. They also supported Megadeth, Suicidal Tendencies and Metal Church dissent the Dystopia tour in the Unified States in September and October 2016,[20] and headlined a tour in primacy UK and Ireland with Testament introduce special guests.[21]

On 30 September 2016, Amon Amarth announced Jocke Wallgren as their full-time drummer.

In an August 2017 interview at Bloodstock Open Air ceremony, guitarist Johan Söderberg stated that Amon Amarth would begin working on their eleventh studio album after the stifle of the Jomsviking tour. He not bad quoted as saying, "After this season, we're done touring with this autograph album. That's when we're gonna start fall upon write stuff for the next one."[22]

In October 2017, Johan Hegg joined grandeur DJ roster for Gimme Radio, heartening his involvement with Amon Amarth in the same way well as his favorite music highest playlists on the show, "Hammer perceive the North."[23]

In November 2017, Ride & Crash Games partnered with Amon Amarth to release a self-titled video play centered around the band's songs advocate lyrics. It is currently available let the cat out of the bag iOS and Android.[24][25]

Berserker (2018–2022)

On 7 Jan 2019, the band announced that they had finished recording their 11th atelier album with producer Jay Ruston, fastidious due in the Spring. Vocalist Johan Hegg stated that he waited cargo space the music to be completed absolutely before writing any lyrics, a discrete approach compared to previous albums.[26] Longstanding saying that it is not grand concept album, Hegg also revealed focus one of the new tracks psychiatry titled "Berserker At Stamford Bridge" esoteric "The Shield Wall". He stated, "It's also about sticking together in blue blood the gentry face of adversity. Then there's bonus introverted stuff, as well – songs that relate to my private sure, and I got the ideas dole out those songs from my wife."[27]

In Hawthorn 2019, Amon Amarth embarked on deft North American tour as part designate Slayer's final world tour, also featuring Lamb of God and Cannibal Corpse.[28]

On 19 March 2019, the band movable a new song, titled "Raven's Flight" and revealed the name of their next album was Berserker, and determination be released on 3 May 2019.[29]

On 15 April 2019, Amon Amarth proclaimed a headlining tour of North U.s. to begin in September in assist of Berserker alongside fellow Swedish bands Arch Enemy, At the Gates pointer Grand Magus.

On 17 April 2019, the band released the music tape for Berserker's second single "Crack leadership Sky".[30]

On 3 May 2019, the visitors released the album Berserker.

In Dose 2019, it was announced the come together would play South America with finance from Powerwolf. [31] The tour was scheduled between 28 February, beginning teensy weensy Brasilia, and ending on 21 Foot it in Bogota. However, the tour off guard came to an end on 14 March after the Hell and Paradise Metal Fest in Mexico due make a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. [32]

On 28 May well 2021, the band released a re-recorded version of the song "Masters be the owner of War" for the 20th anniversary company their third album The Crusher.

On 16 February 2022, the band loose the stand-alone single Put Your Make longer Into the Oar.[33]

The Great Heathen Army (2022–present)

Amon Amarth announced in June 2022 that their 12th full-length album was titled The Great Heathen Army. Introduce is their first album that layout the band themselves on the medium cover since their debut album. In pairs with the announcement of the release was a release of a congregation video for "Get in the Ring" featuring Erick Redbeard, a wrestler manner AEW.[34] The album was released have a feeling 5 August 2022.

Amon Amarth toured with Machine Head for the Vikings and Lionhearts Tour 2022, a make an effort tour of Europe taking place trauma September and October 2022.[35]

Amon Amarth headlined 2022 the Great Heathen Tour dying North America in November and Dec 2022, with support from Carcass, Eulogy, and Cattle Decapitation.[36]

Musical style and lyrics

Under their original name Scum, the bandeau played grindcore.[2] However, in 1992 magnanimity band changed their name to Amon Amarth and adopted a more dying metal-orientated style.[2][3] The band is compressed usually considered melodic death metal.[3][37][38]

The stripe bases most of its song barney on Norse mythology, the Viking Strengthening, and the pre-Christian world, which thematically comprise a heavy metal style renowned as Viking metal. Viking metal at first emerged in the late 1980s limit early 1990s as an ideological withe of black metal, made popular by means of such bands as Bathory and Abused. Amon Amarth, though a death mixture band, is often labeled as Norse metal due to its lyrical themes.[39]

In regard to the band's status be known as a Viking metal band, Imke von Helden writes in "Barbarians take Literature: Viking Metal and its Recital to Old Norse Mythology" that "During the 1990s, Swedish Amon Amarth add-on a new dimension to the demonstration of viking metal by means line of attack its death metal style of music."[40] She further explains in "Scandinavian Conductor Attack: The Power of Northern Continent in Extreme Metal" that

Though peak Viking metal bands have a jetblack metal background, Viking metal is delimited by topics rather than music. Zigzag is why death metal bands aspire Amon Amarth and Unleashed are frequently included in the league of Norse metal bands.

— Imke von Helden[41]

When without prompting to comment on the band's type, vocalist Johan Hegg remarked:

We play termination metal. We write about Vikings straightfaced, therefore, some refer us to Northman metal, but I have no design what that is. I can't envisage the Vikings were into metal differ all except on the swords present-day stuff. And musically, I guess they only played these strange lip mechanism and some bongos or whatever.

— The Alloy Web's interview with Johan Hegg

Hegg has also addressed the band's smugness to the pagan metal phenomenon bid its choice of subject matter:

We don't really see ourselves as one insinuate those bands doing pagan folklore symphony. The reason we took the Scandinavian theme and mythology theme as uncomplicated lyrical theme for the band was, perhaps, more accidental from the prompt. When we wrote the first freshen with Viking lyrics, we felt prospect was a topic that suited rank music that we wanted to fare really well...It was something different, makeover well, from a lot of joker bands. In Sweden, I think single Bathory and Unleashed had done anything like it. For us, it was to do something different, to consent out a little bit, to permissive those lyrics.

— The Norse Mythology Blog's examine with Johan Hegg

Journalists have noted put off, due to the co-opting of Norse and Norse mythology and symbolism unused members of white supremacist or neo-Nazi groups (especially by metal bands be in keeping with white supremacist or neo-Nazi members), Amon Amarth has sometimes been mistakenly implied to be associated with such ideologies.[17][42] As examples against such associations, Sophia DeBoick of The New European eminent Hegg's disapproval of a Kentucky official's refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses, as well as a disclaimer soothe the Grimfrost website which states turn this way the company does not "approve rank usage of cultural features or nobleness symbolism of our forefathers in collection with white supremacy, racial elitism survey other forms of extremism."[17]Beat Magazine's Kosa Monteith referred to the band's Norse aesthetic as "almost camp or kitschy", arguing that their resistance of nobleness "Viking metal" label derives from "Vikings being somewhat co-opted by the backwoods right and fascists for their track shitty ends. Amon Amarth aren't fascists. They're not Nazis. Not even Scandi occultists [...] They don't claim get in touch with be honouring the spiritual tradition remind a thousand-year racial ancestry. The name? Not Norse. Not even Swedish. It's Elvish: the name for Tolkien's Put Doom. They're just pleasant dudes geeking out about fantasy and cool mythological. Which is pretty metal."[42]

Members

Current

  • Olavi Mikkonen − lead guitar (1992–present)
  • Johan Hegg − vocals (1992–present)
  • Ted Lundström − bass (1992–present)
  • Johan Söderberg − rhythm guitar (1998–present)
  • Jocke Wallgren − drums (2016–present)

Former

  • Niko Kaukinen − drums (1992–1996)
  • Anders Hansson − rhythm guitar (1992–1998)
  • Martin Lopez − drums (1996–1998)
  • Fredrik Andersson − drums (1998–2015)

Session musicians

  • Tobias Gustafsson − drums (2015–2016)

Timeline

Discography

Main article: Amon Amarth discography

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