IN THE STUDIO
AMON AMARTH
Raise your horns! The Viking metal chieftains are ramping up the aggression on album number 12
WORDS: MATT MILLS • PICTURES: KEVIN NIXON/TWIN V
AMON AMARTH’S TOUR in support of 2019’s Berserker album was cut short by the pandemic, though that doesn’t mean they’ve spent the last two years twiddling their thumbs. The longships reappeared in February when the Swedish icons released the single Put Your Back Into The Oar, and they’re now hard at work on album 12 with producer Andy Sneap. We held an axe to the throat of singer Johan Hegg, to get him to spill the beans.
Amon Amarth have a signature sound: melodic death metal themed around Vikings. Will the new album tap into that once again?