Amon Amarth announce new album ‘Berserker’

March 21, 2019 James Weaver

AMON AMARTH have announced a new album!

Titled Berserker, the upcoming album from the Swedish metallers will be released in May this year!

The upcoming album was recorded in Los Angeles with renowned studio guru Jay Ruston (ANTHRAX/STONE SOUR) manning the controls. After recording several rounds of professional demos for the new songs (initially with fellow Swedish metal icon Peter Tägtgren and then later with Ruston himself) the band crossed the Atlantic to make final the recordings in LA.

Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Johan Hegg says, “for me, this is AMON AMARTH 2.0. I think what we’ve done here is give ourselves the space to explore other parts of our musicality and who we are as a band. If you’re content with where you’re at, what’s the point of continuing? We always want to come up with new ideas and find new ways of doing things and to create bigger and better shows and really try to improve every aspect of what the band is. We want to try to keep growing and to do this for as long as we have the possibility to do so, because this is the best fucking job in the world.”

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have launched a new music video for the first single from the album; Raven’s Flight. Directed by Roboshobo, the track will be the first of a trilogy of music videos from Berserker, each one increasingly epic in its scope, further immersing the viewer in the world of the band. The cast features Josh Barnett as the Berserker, Erick Rowan as Thor, Tess Kielhammer as Demon Boss, Shanie Rusth as Shield Maiden, Erik Arevalo, Victor Henry, and Canadian WWE legend Viktor as Demon Henchman, and many more.