Amon Amarth announce new album ‘The Great Heathen Army’
AMON AMARTH have announced a new album!
Titled The Great Heathen Army, the upcoming album from the Viking-themed melodic death metal band is the follow-up to 2019’s Berserker, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via Metal Blade Records.
Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Johan Hegg shares, “overall The Great Heathen Army is one of the heavier albums we’ve made. There are some dark and heavy songs that are really powerful and in-your-face, but we obviously have some trademark melodic AMON AMARTH songs on there as well, and a few surprises too. It’s a really well-balanced album. It sounds great. Andy Sneap is awesome. It was great to be able to work with him again.”
Guitarist Olavi Mikkonen adds, “we’ve been away making new music and we’re back with new darker, more death-metal sounding album. If Berserker was our ‘heavy metal’ album, then The Great Heathen Army is our ‘death metal’ album. But with that said, it’s still very much contemporary AMON AMARTH, but perhaps style-wise we have gone back to our roots a little bit.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for the first song lifted from the upcoming album; Get In The Ring. Speaking about the new song and its accompanying music video, Mikkonen says, “I really like Get In The Ring which was written for our friend Erick Rowan the pro wrestler as an ‘entrance’ song for him. The lyrics are obviously written to fit both Viking and wrestling themes, and you can also see Erick as the lead character in the new video for the song. We shot the video in Wroclaw, Poland with our friends Grupa 13 and they helped us create this dark and epic Mad Max meets Viking underground super brutal fight club for the video clip.”
Watch the official music video for Get In The Ring here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Get In The Ring
2. The Great Heathen Army
3. Heidrun
4. Oden Owns You All
5. Find A Way Or Make One
6. Dawn Of Norsemen
7. Saxons And Vikings
8. Skagul Rides With Me
9. The Serpent’s Trail
The Great Heathen Army is set for release on August 5th via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here. Like what you heard? The band will be touring alongside MACHINE HEAD in September/October this year, check out the tour dates here!
For more information on AMON AMARTH like their official page on Facebook.
