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Amon Amarth – Surtur Rising (2011)
Album Review
Amon Amarth’s eighth full-length album is an important one in their discography, because it follows their breakthrough disc, 2008′s Twilight of the Thunder God. That album, laden with guest appearances (Children of Bodom’s Roopi Latvala, Entombed’s LG Petrov, the cellists of Apocalyptica), was the Swedish band’s most elaborate and powerful statement to date. Shockingly, on Surtur Rising they haven’t fallen short of the mark they set for themselves three years earlier. The album’s ten songs are typical anthemic Amon Amarth tracks, built for headbanging and chanting along with the… Read more on allmusic.com
About the Band
Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth originally formed in 1988 under the name Scum; by the time the new moniker was adopted four years later, the line-up consisted of vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olli Mikkonen and Anders Hansson, bassist Ted Lundstrom and drummer Niko Kaukinen. In 1993, the quintet recorded their first demo Thor Arise, which went unreleased due to sound problems; a second demo, Arrival of the Fimbul Winter, followed in 1994, quickly selling out all 1000 copies. Signing to the Singapore-based Pulverised label, Amon Amarth issued the EP Sorrow Throughout the Nine World in mid-1996; soon after Kaukinen exited, and was replaced by drummer Martin Lopez for 1998′s full-length Once Sent from the Golden Hall. When both Hansson and Lopez defected from the line-up, the remaining members of Amon Amarth tapped new guitarist Johan Söderberg and drummer Fredrik Andersson for 1999′s The Avenger. Crusher followed three years later. Read more on RockMusicForever.com Tribute Page for the band
Tracks
- “War of the Gods”
- “Töck’s Taunt – Loke’s Treachery Part II”
- “Destroyer of the Universe”
- “Slaves of Fear”
- “Live Without Regrets”
- “The Last Stand of Frej”
- “For Victory or Death”
- “Wrath of the Norsemen”
- “A Beast Am I”
- “Doom Over Dead Man”
