60-450: Amon Amarth ( / ə ˈ m ɒ n ə ˈ m ɑːr θ / ) are a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba , formed in 1992. The band take its name from the Sindarin name of Mount Doom , a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth . Their lyrics mostly deal with Viking mythology and history, and so they have been sometimes erroneously labeled " Viking metal ", although the band prefers
120-534: A 1991 demo, 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 recording its first demo Thor Arise in 1993. Raw and uneven in sound and execution, it was never officially released due to low quality standards, but the band caught the attention of extreme metal fans with its own "infectious brand of epic-sounding brutality and unadorned conviction". In 1994 another demo entitled The Arrival of
180-508: A Kentucky official's refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses, as well as a disclaimer on the Grimfrost website which states that the company does not "approve the usage of cultural features or the symbolism of our forefathers in association with white supremacy, racial elitism or other forms of extremism." Beat Magazine ' s Kosa Monteith referred to the band's Viking aesthetic as "almost camp or kitschy", arguing that their resistance of
240-400: A bonus CD with demos Thor Arise and Arrival Of The Fimbul Winter . Touring continued until Spring 2004 when the band started working on Fate of Norns , which was released on 6 September 2004. The follow-up, With Oden on Our Side was released in 2006, and showed, (according to AllMusic) that "Amon Amarth continue to be champions of the worldwide death metal tournament" and rose to #26 in
300-547: A new sound, including the death 'n' roll of Entombed 's Wolverine Blues . At the Gates' Slaughter of the Soul influenced many American metal bands, especially metalcore bands who used guitar riffs and vocals emulating At the Gates' music. The vocals also were noted by AllMusic for being more decipherable than other death metal vocals, resembling high-pitched shrieks that foreshadowed 2000s American screamo bands. The album brought At
360-497: A self-titled video game centered around the band's songs and lyrics. It is currently available on iOS and Android. On 7 January 2019, the band announced that they had finished recording their 11th studio album with producer Jay Ruston, tentatively due in the Spring. Vocalist Johan Hegg stated that he waited for the music to be completed entirely before writing any lyrics, a different approach compared to previous albums. While saying that it
420-484: Is more prone to using verse-chorus song structures. Much of the origin and popularity of melodic death metal can be attributed to the bands At the Gates , In Flames , and Dark Tranquillity , whose mid 1990s music releases (namely Slaughter of the Soul , The Jester Race , and The Gallery , respectively) defined the genre and laid the foundation for the Gothenburg metal scene. Writer Gary Sharpe-Young considered
480-520: Is not a concept album, Hegg also revealed that one of the new tracks is titled "Berserker At Stamford Bridge" and "The Shield Wall" . He stated, "It's also about sticking together in the face of adversity. Then there's more introverted stuff, as well – songs that relate to my private life, and I got the ideas for those songs from my wife." In May 2019, Amon Amarth embarked on a North American tour as part of Slayer 's final world tour , also featuring Lamb of God and Cannibal Corpse . On 19 March 2019,
540-536: Is pretty metal." Current Former Session musicians Melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath ) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs , often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal ). The genre features the heaviness of death metal but with highly melodic or harmonized guitar riffs and solos, and often features high-pitched shrieked vocals (differing from traditional death metal) alongside
600-470: The "Viking metal" label derives from "Vikings being somewhat co-opted by the far right and fascists for their own shitty ends. Amon Amarth aren't fascists. They're not Nazis. Not even Scandi occultists [...] They don't claim to be honouring the spiritual tradition of a thousand-year racial ancestry. The name? Not Norse. Not even Swedish. It's Elvish : the name for Tolkien's Mount Doom. They're just pleasant dudes geeking out about fantasy and cool stories. Which
660-600: The "most blasphemous band in the world". Concerning the band's two initial releases, the 1991 EP, Fuck Me Jesus , and their debut album, Dark Endless , released the subsequent year, Marduk can be sonically defined as black metal which interwove significant influence from death metal . For both of these releases, the band's lineup consisted of the aforementioned Morgan, Andreas 'Dread' Axelsson as vocalist, Magnus 'Devo' Andersson as guitarist, Rikard Kalm as bassist, and Joakim 'Av Gravf' Göthberg as drummer, while Dan Swanö of Edge of Sanity mixed both albums. Nonetheless,
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#1732868941163720-804: The #7 position in Revolver Magazine 's Top 20 Albums that year. Amon Amarth embarked on a North American headlining tour in October 2008, with support from Ensiferum , Belphegor , and The Absence . In 2009, the band returned to the U.S. for another successful series of dates with Goatwhore , Skeletonwitch and Lazarus A.D . and later in 2010 with Holy Grail and Eluveitie . In between, Amon Amarth were named "Best Breakthrough Act" at Metal Hammer ' s prestigious Golden Gods Awards . The band also supported Slayer in its Unholy Alliance Chapter III European tour. Amon Amarth played its first show in India, headlining
780-492: The 1990s, Swedish Amon Amarth added a new dimension to the definition of viking metal by means of its death metal style of music." She further explains in "Scandinavian Metal Attack: The Power of Northern Europe in Extreme Metal" that Though most Viking metal bands have a black metal background, Viking metal is defined by topics rather than music. That is why death metal bands like Amon Amarth and Unleashed are often included in
840-422: The 2000s decade. In the mid–late 2000s, melodic metalcore became one of the most popular heavy metal genres, with bands like Killswitch Engage , Unearth , Bullet for My Valentine , All That Remains , Shadows Fall and Atreyu achieving success, headlining major festivals and selling a lot of records. Melodic metalcore combined melodic death metal elements like melodic guitar riffs and screaming with elements of
900-604: The Deccan Rock Festival in Bangalore on 5 December 2009. On 30 November 2010, Amon Amarth confirmed its next album entitled Surtur Rising would be released in Spring 2011. The drums were recorded at Park Studios, while bass and guitars were recorded at Fascination Street Studios. On 27 January 2011, Metal Blade Records released the new album's first single, titled "War of the Gods", on YouTube . On 29 March 2011, Surtur Rising
960-767: The 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 sold 6,000 copies. They then signed with Metal Blade Records , releasing the debut album Once Sent from the Golden Hall . Described as "a compelling fusion of buzzsaw riff work, melodic harmonies and soul-crushing rhythms punctuated by Hegg's callous black/death roar and accounts of Norse battles and treachery" it made sure Amon Amarth's popularity rose internationally. According to AllMusic ,
1020-528: The Gates , In Flames , Arch Enemy and Soilwork . Marduk (band) Marduk is a Swedish black metal band formed in Norrköping in 1990. The band released their debut full-length album, Dark Endless , in 1992 on No Fashion Records . Their name is derived from the Ancient Babylonian deity, Marduk . Morgan Steinmeyer Håkansson, the band's guitarist, formed Marduk with the intention of being
1080-669: The Gates underground popularity, including rotation on MTV 's Headbanger's Ball , a nomination at the Swedish Grammys, and American tours with Morbid Angel and Napalm Death . In the late 1990s and early 2000s, melodic death metal quickly expanded with many bands emerging, including Amon Amarth , The Black Dahlia Murder , Arch Enemy , Soilwork , Insomnium , and Children of Bodom . Additionally, other genres would begin using melodic death metal as an influence, including melodic metalcore and melodic black/death. Stewart Mason claims that melodic metalcore has become very popular in
1140-471: The Gates worship". In the 2000s, melodic death metal became popular among heavy metal fans. In 2002, In Flames' album Reroute to Remain peaked at number 10 on the Top Heatseekers chart. The album, retaining the band's melodic death metal sound, showed a diverse mix of different musical genres, including occasional electronica and hip hop synthesizers and occasional clean singing. This helped gain
1200-434: The Gates worship". In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many melodic death metal bands emerged, including Children of Bodom , Arch Enemy , Amon Amarth , The Black Dahlia Murder , Insomnium , and Soilwork . In the 2000s decade, melodic death metal achieved popularity among heavy metal fans, starting with the release of In Flames' 2002 album Reroute to Remain , which showed a change to a more eclectic sound while retaining
1260-411: The Gates' Slaughter of the Soul , Dark Tranquillity's The Gallery , and In Flames' The Jester Race , all released in the mid-1990s, were highly influential albums in melodic death metal, with At the Gates and In Flames being the two most common influences on North American 2000s heavy metal bands. Many American heavy metal bands emulated At the Gates' sound, resulting in the usage of the phrase "At
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#17328689411631320-583: The Gothenburg scene the commercial salvation of death metal: "Gothenburg became the new Tampa and the genre received a new lease on life." The titular melodic elements can be traced to traditional Scandinavian musical motifs. Another pioneer was the English band Carcass , which performed grindcore on its first two releases but morphed into death metal and an increasingly melodic style on the Necroticism – Descanting
1380-889: The Horizon and Through the Eyes of the Dead also were influenced by melodic death metal and achieved popularity. Melodic death metal combines death metal with elements of traditional heavy metal ranging as far as the New Wave of British Heavy Metal , especially melodic or harmonized guitar riffs, with the heavily distorted guitars, fast double-bass drum patterns and occasional blast beats of death metal . The vocal style typically features either high-pitched shrieks screaming (differing from traditional death metal) or low-pitched growling (similar to traditional death metal) and can feature clean sung vocals. Unlike traditional death metal, melodic death metal
1440-687: The Insalubrious (1991) and Heartwork (1993). Death 's 1995 album Symbolic is also considered to be influential in the development of the genre. Ceremonial Oath and Eucharist also are early melodic death metal bands; however, they never gained much attention outside of their own scene. In Flames' The Jester Race combined death metal with guitar riffs heavily influenced by bands like Iron Maiden and Judas Priest . The album's sound heavily contrasted with traditional death metal, and made Swedish death metal more accessible to more people compared to other Swedish death metal albums that pioneered
1500-711: The Sky". On 3 May 2019, the band released the album Berserker . In Late 2019, it was announced the band would play South America with support from Powerwolf . The tour was scheduled between 28 February, beginning in Brasilia, and ending on 21 March in Bogota. However, the tour abruptly came to an end on 14 March after the Hell and Heaven Metal Fest in Mexico due to the COVID-19 pandemic . On 28 May 2021,
1560-632: The US Top Independent album charts. The album's material, though, was not included in the DVD Wrath Of The Norsemen, which released in May 2006. In early January 2008, the band's first tour of Australia and New Zealand took place, supporting Dimmu Borgir , after finishing a US and Canadian tour with Sonic Syndicate and Himsa . Amon Amarth extended its record deal with Metal Blade Records for three more albums. After extending its record deal,
1620-506: The United States with Carach Angren , Rotting Christ , and Necronomicon but was forced to cancel this endeavour as a result of unresolved delays in acquiring visas. In late February 2017, Marduk's prospective show at Oakland was cancelled by the venue for fears of security issues after a local anti-fascist group targeted the band and reportedly threatened the venue staff. In April 2018, accusations of neo-Nazi sympathies resurfaced after
1680-424: The United States, using the term "Swedecore" to describe Scandinavian-style metal as played by non- Nordic bands. Many melodic death metal and metalcore bands (especially after melodic metalcore band Killswitch Engage rose in popularity) were heavily influenced by Slaughter of the Soul by At the Gates and had an influence of them in their music. Many heavy metal bands in the mid-2000s, in turn, were labeled "At
1740-520: The Unlight demarcated a noteworthy sonic excursion for the band, as this album manifested a more melodic black metal sound that repudiated the death metal undergirding of Marduk's body of work thusfar. The band elaborated upon this style on Opus Nocturne , released on 12 December 1994, which, concerning personnel, was signified by the addition of Fredrik Andersson on drums, with Av Gravf forsaking this position to concentrate specifically on vocal delivery, and
1800-455: The album's release on 1 July 1996. This line-up of the band, with the exception of Fredrik Andersson departing in 2002 only to be replaced by Emil Dragutinovic, remained largely unscathed, releasing Nightwing , Panzer Division Marduk , La Grande Danse Macabre , and World Funeral , all of which the aforementioned Tägtgren mixed, in 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2003 respectively. Nonetheless, attributing his decision to both dissatisfaction with
1860-788: The announcement of the album was a release of a music video for "Get in the Ring" featuring Erick Redbeard , a wrestler for AEW . The album was released on 5 August 2022. Amon Amarth toured with Machine Head for the Vikings and Lionhearts Tour 2022, a concert tour of Europe taking place in September and October 2022. Amon Amarth headlined 2022 the Great Heathen Tour of North America in November and December 2022, with support from Carcass , Obituary , and Cattle Decapitation . Under their original name Scum,
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1920-517: The band a new amount of fans while alienating fans of In Flames' early work. In Flames' next two albums, Soundtrack to Your Escape (2004) and Come Clarity (2006), peaked at numbers 145 and 58 on the Billboard 200 , respectively, with the latter album giving In Flames a Swedish Grammy Award. The Black Dahlia Murder, Arch Enemy, Children of Bodom, and Amon Amarth also enter the Billboard 200 during
1980-467: The band played grindcore . However, in 1992 the band changed their name to Amon Amarth and adopted a more death metal-orientated style. The band is now usually considered melodic death metal . The band bases most of its song lyrics on Norse mythology , the Viking Age , and the pre- Christian world, which thematically comprise a heavy metal style known as Viking metal . Viking metal originally emerged in
2040-834: The band released Twilight of the Thunder God , which featured guest appearances by Lars-Göran Petrov of Entombed , Roope Latvala of Children of Bodom , and the cello metal band Apocalyptica . Accompanying the release of the album was an eight-page comic strip based on Norse mythology which was released by magazines in Europe. The album reached #50 in the U.S., #6 in Germany, #10 in Finland, #11 in Sweden, #14 in Austria, and #21 in Switzerland. It ended up at
2100-445: The band released a new song, titled "Raven's Flight" and revealed the name of their next album was Berserker , and will be released on 3 May 2019. On 15 April 2019, Amon Amarth announced a headlining tour of North America to begin in September in support of Berserker alongside fellow Swedish bands Arch Enemy , At the Gates and Grand Magus . On 17 April 2019, the band released the music video for Berserker 's second single "Crack
2160-538: The band released a re-recorded version of the song "Masters of War" for the 20th anniversary of their third album The Crusher . On 16 February 2022, the band released the stand-alone single Put Your Back Into the Oar . Amon Amarth announced in June 2022 that their 12th full-length album was titled The Great Heathen Army . It is their first album that features the band themselves on the album cover since their debut album. Paired with
2220-732: The band saw its breakthrough with the 2008 album Twilight of the Thunder God , which debuted at No. 10 on the Swedish album charts and No. 50 on the US Billboard 200 . Five more albums, Surtur Rising , Deceiver of the Gods , Jomsviking , Berserker , and The Great Heathen Army , followed in 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2022 respectively. The band emerged from the previous grindcore (or death metal)band Scum , founded in 1988 by Paul "Themgoroth" Mäkitalo ( Dark Funeral ) on vocals , Olavi Mikkonen on lead guitar , Petri Tarvainen on bass and Vesa Meriläinen played on rhythm guitar . After
2280-587: The band went on tour with Marduk and Vader , taking part in No Mercy Festival. Their first American tour, scheduled for Autumn 2001, was cancelled due to the attacks of September 11th and was held later in January 2002. In April 2002 the band toured Europe with Vomitory and in August performed at Wacken Open Air before a crowd of 12,000. Versus The World was released, alongside The Viking Edition, which contained
2340-413: The band's melodic death metal sound. Many other melodic death metal bands quickly had chart success. In the mid-2000s, melodic metalcore , a subgenre of metalcore that combines the genre with melodic death metal, achieved popularity with the chart success and sales success of bands like Killswitch Engage , All That Remains , and As I Lay Dying . Deathcore bands during this time period like Bring Me
2400-458: The band's musical direction and the diminishment of interpersonal relations within the band, Legion departed from the band in 2003, followed by B. War the subsequent year. Consequently, Legion was replaced by Daniel 'Mortuus' Rostén , renowned for his work within Funeral Mist , while Devo returned to the band, this time assuming the position of bassist. In September 2016, Marduk intended to tour
2460-491: The band's relationship to the pagan metal phenomenon and its choice of subject matter: We don't really see ourselves as one of those bands doing pagan folklore music. The reason we took the Viking theme and mythology theme as a lyrical theme for the band was, perhaps, more accidental from the start. When we wrote the first song with Viking lyrics, we felt it was a topic that suited the music that we wanted to write really well...It
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2520-565: The band, depicted Ragnarök , the last battle between the Æsir gods and Loki , accompanied by the army of the dead. In 2014, Hegg co-founded Grimfrost, a company that produces and sells reproductions of Viking Age artefacts, as well as products inspired by Viking Age culture. On 19 March 2015, Amon Amarth posted on its Facebook page that it had parted ways with drummer Fredrik Andersson after 17 years of collaboration. The band released its 10th album, Jomsviking , on 25 March 2016. A session drummer, Tobias Gustafsson (formerly of Vomitory ),
2580-555: The departure of Devo. Stability had not yet been attained by the band, however, as Av Gravf opted to depart from Marduk in 1995, citing boredom as the primary instigator for this decision. Wherefore, Marduk recruited Erik 'Legion' Hagstedt, formerly of Swedish black metal band Ophthalamia , as vocalist. This development was further characterised by the band opting to record their fourth full-length album, Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered , with Peter Tägtgren of Hypocrisy fame at The Abyss Studio in January 1996, antecedent to
2640-596: The end of the Jomsviking tour. He is quoted as saying, "After this summer, we're done touring with this album. That's when we're gonna start to write stuff for the next one." In October 2017, Johan Hegg joined the DJ roster for Gimme Radio , promoting his involvement with Amon Amarth as well as his favorite music and playlists on the show, "Hammer of the North." In November 2017, Ride & Crash Games partnered with Amon Amarth to release
2700-428: The genre would incorporate an increased sense of melody and narrative. Melodic metalcore is a fusion genre, incorporating elements of metalcore and melodic death metal, with a heavy emphasis on melodic instrumentation, blast beats , metalcore-stylized breakdowns and clean singing . These bands often take influence from the guitar riffs and writing styles of Swedish melodic death metal bands, especially At
2760-411: The late 1980s and early 1990s as an ideological offshoot of black metal , made popular by such bands as Bathory and Enslaved . Amon Amarth, though a death metal band, is often labeled as Viking metal due to its lyrical themes. In regard to the band's reputation as a Viking metal band, Imke von Helden writes in "Barbarians and Literature: Viking Metal and its Links to Old Norse Mythology" that "During
2820-423: The latter hinting at a more chaotic, blast beat-driven style that would be further explored on subsequent albums like Heaven Shall Burn... When We Are Gathered , Nightwing , and Panzer Division Marduk . Concerning the thematic nature of Marduk's lyrics, the lyrics primarily incorporate Satanism , anti-Christianity , blasphemy , death , Third Reich history, and World War II . Marduk began incorporating
2880-443: The league of Viking metal bands. When asked to comment on the band's genre, vocalist Johan Hegg remarked: We play death metal. We write about Vikings so, therefore, some refer us to Viking metal, but I have no idea what that is. I can't imagine the Vikings were into metal at all except on the swords and stuff. And musically, I guess they only played these strange lip instruments and some bongos or whatever. Hegg has also addressed
2940-421: The low-pitched growls commonly featured in traditional death metal. Pioneered by the English heavy metal band Carcass with their 1993 album Heartwork , melodic death metal developed further in Sweden (developed by bands like At the Gates , Dark Tranquillity , and In Flames ) in the mid-1990s. The Swedish death metal scene did much to popularise the style, soon centering in the " Gothenburg metal " scene. At
3000-578: The news site Dagens ETC [ sv ] published an article alleging that Fredrik Widigs and Daniel Rostén had placed orders from the Nordic Resistance Movement web shop, according to leaked files from NRM servers. The band have denied these accusations, as well as any connection to the Nordic Resistance Movement. Marduk released their latest studio album, Viktoria , on 22 June 2018. In 2019, Devo announced that he
3060-685: The original style of metalcore like breakdowns . At the Gates and In Flames were major influences on these bands. Killswitch Engage are often credited as the band that brought melodic metalcore into the mainstream among heavy metal fans. Some deathcore bands during this time, such as Through the Eyes of the Dead and Bring Me the Horizon , combined deathcore with melodic death metal. Many melodic death metal bands began being inspired by black metal and European romanticism . This style has been referred to as blackened melodic death metal , melodic blackened death metal and melodic black-death . However, unlike most other black metal, this take on
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#17328689411633120-467: The song that bore the group's namesake was the most memorable, containing "the chaotic noises of battle, the screams of the dying, and much sword-clashing to boot." Since then they have performed at multiple Canada and US tours, festival appearances, eight music videos , and appearances in over 100 metal magazines. In June 1998, as the band was about to commence a tour alongside Deicide , Six Feet Under and Brutal Truth , guitarist Anders Hansson left and
3180-515: The stability of this line-up was ruptured following the release of Dark Endless when both Dread and Richard Kalm departed from the band. After which, Av Gravf assumed the additional position of vocalist while Roger 'B. War' Svensson assumed the position of bass player, consequently recording their second full-length album, Those of the Unlight , in April 1993, again being mixed by the aforementioned Swanö. Subsequently, released on 1 October 1993, Those of
3240-439: The term melodic death metal. The band is composed of lead 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 , one video album , and ten music videos . Their first studio album, Once Sent from the Golden Hall , debuted in 1998. Five more studio releases followed, before
3300-413: Was "very drunk" and carried out "a variety of intolerable stage antics". The band was booked to play Bangkok, Thailand in 2023. The band's two initial releases, the 1991 EP, Fuck Me Jesus , and their debut album, Dark Endless , combine black metal with death metal . The band's second and third albums Those of the Unlight and Opus Nocturne , showed a more melodic black metal approach, with
3360-470: Was leaving the band to focus on studio work, being replaced by Joel Lindholm in 2020. In May 2023, Marduk announced that bassist Joel Lindholm had left the band, after video showed him apparently making a Nazi salute during their performance at Incineration Fest in London. Guitarist Morgan Håkansson called the incident "deplorable". The band said they were not made aware until after the show, adding that Lindholm
3420-777: Was recruited for completion of the album. From 22 to 25 March, the band performed four intimate album release shows in London, Paris, Tilburg, and Berlin to mark the release of Jomsviking . They also supported Megadeth , Suicidal Tendencies and Metal Church on the Dystopia tour in the United States in September and October 2016, and headlined a tour in the UK and Ireland with Testament as special guests. On 30 September 2016, Amon Amarth announced Jocke Wallgren as their full-time drummer. In an August 2017 interview at Bloodstock Open Air festival, guitarist Johan Söderberg stated that Amon Amarth would begin working on their eleventh studio album after
3480-471: Was released in North America. To support the album, the band embarked on a 4-month world tour with Children Of Bodom and Ensiferum , among others. Amon Amarth performed at Wacken Open Air in 2012, Hellfest 2013, Download Festival 2013, Sweden Rock Festival , and Mayhem Festival 2013 . On 25 June 2013, Amon Amarth released its ninth studio album, Deceiver of the Gods . The album cover, according to
3540-605: Was replaced by Johan Soderberg. After the tour Martin Lopez quit to join Opeth and Fredrik Andersson (ex-A Canorous Quintet) came in. With him in 1999 the band recorded and released their second full-length album, The Avenger . The release was supported by the X-Mas Massacre Festivals Tour with Morbid Angel headlining. The Crusher , released in 2001, was considered to be the group's most aggressive album. In support of it
3600-644: Was something different, as well, from a lot of other bands. In Sweden, I think only Bathory and Unleashed had done anything like it. For us, it was to do something different, to stand out a little bit, to use those lyrics. Journalists have noted that, due to the co-opting of Viking and Norse mythology and symbolism by members of white supremacist or neo-Nazi groups (especially by metal bands with white supremacist or neo-Nazi members), Amon Amarth has sometimes been mistakenly assumed to be associated with such ideologies. As examples against such associations, Sophia DeBoick of The New European noted Hegg's disapproval of
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