Welcome to the LOUDEST DOT COM ON THE PLANET!
KNAC.COM News Reviews and More Watch The Latest Videos Buy KNAC T-shirts and More


AMON AMARTH Return With New Album The Great Heathen Army

By Larry Petro, News Monkey
Friday, June 3, 2022 @ 8:20 AM


Out August 5th Via Metal Blade Records; "Get In The Ring" Video Launches

- advertisement -
Undisputed kings of Viking heavy metal, AMON AMARTH, have announced their twelfth studio album, The Great Heathen Army today. The 9-track aural assault will be released on Friday, August 5th, 2022 via Metal Blade Records. Pre-orders available now with the first 1000 orders at the band’s European Victorious Merch store receiving a free signed poster.

Today's announcement is highlighted by the release of brand new track and accompanying music video, "Get In The Ring" which was written for AEW pro-wrestling star Erick Redbeard, who also stars in the music video . Watch the video now on KNAC.COM HERE

Speaking on the announcement of their new album, AMON AMARTH 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.”

Gutiarist, 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.”

On the release of new single "Get In The Ring", Mikkonen continues:

“I really like “Get In The Ring” which was written for our friend Erick Redbeard 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.”

One of the best-loved metal bands in the world, AMON AMARTH are firmly dedicated to aiming high when they hit the studio. Recorded with esteemed studio guru Andy Sneap at the controls, The Great Heathen Army represents another bold leap forward for the band, as their trademark sound undergoes yet another skilful, evolutionary overhaul, both lyrically and musically. From the noisily rabble-rousing "Find A Way Or Make One" and the pummelling, pugilistic "Get In The Ring", to the evocative fury of "Saxons And Vikings" and the cinematic squall of the title track, "The Great Heathen Army" encapsulates the essence of this legendary band, while still allowing acres of space for new ideas.

The Great Heathen Army Track Listing

  • "Get In the Ring"
  • "The Great Heathen Army"
  • "Heidrun"
  • "Oden Owns You All"
  • "Find a Way or Make One"
  • "Dawn of Norsemen"
  • "Saxons and Vikings"
  • "Skagul Rides With Me"
  • "The Serpent's Trail"
Album Pre-orders are available now from www.metalblade.com/amonamarth/ and feature a host of exclusive vinyl variants and must-have merch items for any self-respecting AMON AMARTH fan.

Armed with their 12th and arguably finest album to date, AMON AMARTH are poised to return to full action with a bloody, broadsword-wielding vengeance. The release of The Great Heathen Army will kick-start another relentless global campaign, commencing with a co-headlining tour of Europe alongside MACHINE HEAD and fellow countrymen THE HALO EFFECT. Still ruthlessly devoted to the ways of the warrior, AMON AMARTH have Odin’s wind in their sails like never before. For tickets and further information head to AmonAmarth.com. Full dates listed below.

  • 9.8 – NOTTINGHAM, UK, Motorpoint Arena
  • 9.9 – CARDIFF, UK, Motorpoint Arena
  • 9.10 – LONDON, UK, The SSE Arena, Wembley
  • 9.12 – MANCHESTER, Uk AO Arena
  • 9.13 – DUBLIN, Ireland, 3Arena
  • 9.16 – ZURICH, Switzerland, Hallenstadion
  • 9.17 – VIENNA, Austria, Stadthalle
  • 9.18 – KRAKOW, Poland, Tauron Arena
  • 9.20 – TALLINN, Estonia, Saku Arena
  • 9.21 – HELSINKI, Finland, Ice Hall
  • 9.23 – OSLO, Norway, Spektrum
  • 9.24 – STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Hovet
  • 9.26 – COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Forum Black Box
  • 9.27 – HAMBURG, Germany, Barclays Arena
  • 9.28 – FRANKFURT, Germany, Festhalle
  • 9.30 – OBERHAUSEN, Germany, König Pilsener Arena
  • 10.01 – BERLIN, Germany Velodrome
  • 10.02 – AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Afas Live
  • 10.04 – MILAN, Italy, Lorenzini District
  • 10.06 – BARCELONA, Spain, Sant Jordi
  • 10.07 – MADRID, Spain, Vistalegre
  • 10.08 – LA CORUNA, Spain, Coliseum
  • 10.09 – LISBON, Portugal, Campo Pequeno
  • 10.12 – PARIS, France, Zenith
  • 10.14 – MUNICH, Germany, Olympiahalle
  • 10.15 – LEIPZIG, Germany, Arena
  • 10.16 – PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Tipsport Arena
  • 10.18 – BUDAPEST, Hungary, Barba Negra
  • 10.20 – ESCH SUR ALZETTE, Luxembourg, Rockhal
  • 10.21 – BRUSSELS, Belgium, Forest National
  • 10.22 – STUTTGART, Germant, Schleyerhalle


Back to Top

 

 

 Recent News
LACUNA COIL Reveal New Album Sleepless Empire
SPIRITBOX Unveil Cinematic Video For "Soft Spine"
TARJA Readies Second Volume Of Live Series, Rocking Heels: Live At Hellfest
LEAGUE OF DISTORTION Unleashes "Chainsaw" Video
GEOFF TATE Announces The 'Operation Mindcrime, The Final Chapter Tour'
SILENT RAGE Frontman JESSE DAMON To Release Anthology Limited Edition CD
KAT VON D Launches "I Am A Machine" Video, Featuring ALISSA WHITE GLUZ Of ARCH ENEMY
KING'S X Bassist DUG PINNICK Announces Newest Solo Album, Thingamajigger
CROSSBONE SKULLY Drop New Video For "High On You" Featuring MOTLEY CRUE's NIKKI SIXX
STICK TO YOUR GUNS Keep Planting Flowers With New Album
THE VEER UNION Share New Track "Is This How It Ends?"
MILWAUKEE METAL FEST Announces First Wave Of Bands For 2025 Edition
THE HALO EFFECT Set For New Album March Of The Unheard
SABATON's Concert Film, Sabaton - The Tour To End All Tours , Comes To North American Theaters In October
MARILYN MANSON Reveals New Studio Album, One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1
SKILLET Drops New Video For "All That Matters"
TESTAMENT Announce Florida In-Store Meet & Greet
HOUSE OF LORDS Launch New Single "Taking The Fall"
SICKSENSE Release New Video For "Wildfires"
SONIC TEMPLE ART & MUSIC FESTIVAL Announces Initial Bands & New Pass Types For 2025
NASTY SAVAGE Unveil First New Album In 20 Years, The Jeopardy Room
Drum Prodigy JOHN LONGSTRETH Releases Instructional Video, Drumming of a Madman: Experiments in Modern Metal Drumming
DEATH ANGEL Set For 9th Annual Bay Area X-Mas Shows
DGM Share New Video For Song "Final Call"
HEART Announces Additional North American Tour Dates For 2025
TAK MATSUMOTO GROUP Return With New Album TMG II
KAT VON D Announces 'My Side Of The Mountain' Tour
SEVEN KINGDOMS Ready New EP, The Square
VENDED Unleash Video For "Where The Honesty Lies"
RIOT V Vocalist TODD MICHAEL HALL Readies Sophomore Solo Album Off The Rails
SWALLOW THE SUN Drop New Video For "Melancholy"
SUNSTORM Returns with New Album Restless Fight
TREMONTI Launches Cinematic Video For "The Mother, The Earth and I"
RATT's Out Of The Cellar Gets 40th Anniversary Edition Vinyl
ALCEST Announce North American Tour
KINGS OF MERCIA Shares New Video For "Aftermath"
SEVENTH CRYSTAL Reveal New Studio Album Entity
ZAKK SABBATH Announce US Winter 2024/25 Tour
LORDS OF THE TRIDENT Share New Video "Jet Set City"
NANOWAR OF STEEL Set For Live Album, XX Years Of Steel
TROIS-RIVIERES METALFEST Announces 2024 Lineup
MYLES KENNEDY Releases Animated Video For "Miss You When You're Gone"
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, TRIVIUM Join For 2025 Co-Headline "The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour"
STYX Return To Las Vegas For Five-Night Engagement
METALLICA Announce 2025 North American "M72 World Tour" Dates
WHITECHAPEL Unleashes "A Visceral Retch" Single, Video
RORSCHACH TEST Announces First Leg Of 2025 "Fallen Tour"
ENSIFERUM Release New Single "Long Cold Winter Of Sorrow And Strife"
POWERFLO Return With New Album Gorilla Warfare
IRON MAIDEN Announce 'Run For Your Lives' World Tour 2025/26
NOTHING MORE Kicks Off SHIPROCKED Cruise Contest
TESTAMENT Releases New 'Brazen' Coffee Collaboration
GIRLSCHOOL Adds Additional Shows To Second Leg Of Final North American Tour
TRIBULATION Releases Video For "Hungry Waters"
METAL INJECTION FESTIVAL Announces Daily Set Times
MERCYFUL FATE Album Don't Break The Oath Gets 40th Anniversary Vinyl Repress
Puscifer Entertainment Presents 'SESSANTA V2.0' Spring 2025 Tour
DANCE WITH THE DEAD Launches "Neon Cross" Video
HIM Unveils Career-Spanning Anthology: When Love And Death Embrace - The Best Of HIM 1997-2003
GRAND MAGUS Share New Single "The Wheel Of Pain"
AS I LAY DYING Return With New Album Through Storms Ahead
FROZEN CROWN Drops New Album Title Track Video, "War Hearts"
JUDAS PRIEST's Rocka Rolla Gets 50th Anniversary Remixed, Remastered Version
DEFTONES Announces 2025 North American Tour
CASANDRA'S CROSSING, Featuring PARALANDRA Vocalist And GEORGE LYNCH, Releases "Impatient" Single
HEART Announces Rescheduled North America Shows For 2025
ENFORCED Announce New EP A Leap Into The Dark
1349 Premieres Blistering New Single, "Inferior Pathways"
DREAM THEATER Confirm 40th Anniversary North American Tour For 2025
MOTORHEAD Announce We Take No Prisoners - The Singles 1995-2006 Box Set
MEMPHIS MAY FIRE Share New Video For "Infection"
THUNDERMOTHER Get Dirty & Divine With New Album
OPETH Unveils New Single, "§3"
SODOM's Tapping The Vein Gets Deluxe Expanded Reissue
IMPELLITTERI Announce New Album War Machine
JERRY CANTRELL Drops New Video For "Afterglow"
DELAIN Announce New EP, Dance With The Devil
BEASTO BLANCO Releases New Video For "Unreal"
TRAPEZE To Release Lost Tapes Vol. 2
MARKO HIETALA Unveils New Video For "Frankenstein's Wife"
MOTLEY CRUE Celebrate 35th Anniversary Of Dr. Feelgood With Limited Edition Box Set
KK'S PRIEST Unleash "The Sinner Rides Again" Video
LOUDER THAN LIFE Festival Announces Set Times, Mobile App, Onsite Experiences & Local Shows
STORACE Returns with New Single "Rock This City"
PUNK IN THE PARK: SAN DIEGO Announces 2024 Lineup
BEHEMOTH Ready 30th Anniversary Live Show Release, XXX Years Ov Blasphemy
BLESSTHEFALL Drop Video For "Drag Me Under"
STARCHASER Unveil Into The Great Unknown Album
HELL'S HEROES Festival Reveals Full 2025 Band Lineup
SAINT Returns With New Album Immortalizer
WIND ROSE Releases New Video "To Be a Dwarf"
HOUSE OF LORDS Reveal New Album Full Tilt Overdrive
GIRLSCHOOL Announces Second Leg Of Final North American Tour
CRAZY LIXX Drop "Call Of The Wild" Video
AD INFINITUM Set For New Album Abyss
SWALLOW THE SUN Announce 2025 North American Headline Tour
LEAGUE OF DISTORTION Announce Sophomore Album, Galvanize
MICHAEL SCHENKER Streams "Only You Can Rock Me" Single
CHARLOTTE WESSELS Releases "The Crying Room" Video
DGM Return With New Album Endless
MAYHEM Announces Special 40th Anniversary Tour In North America
ZEAL & ARDOR Launch "Kilonova" Video
CLEANBREAK Reveal New Album We Are The Fire
HYPERSPACE METALFEST Announces Initial 2025 Lineup
BraveWords Records Releases Rhett Forrester & Rob Robbins - The Complete Dr. Dirty Sessions 1992-1993
A DAY TO REMEMBER Announce Fall "Couple More Shows" Headline Tour
ONI Shares New Video For "Walk Away" (Feat. lil aaron)
THE VEER UNION Release New Single "Empirical"
GHOUL Announces October West Coast 'Weapons Of Mosh Destruction V Tour'
WITHIN THE RUINS Unleashes "Demon Killer" Video
PROPHETS OF ADDICTION Face The Music With New Album
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE Drop "Morphine Waltz" Video
SEPTICFLESH Announce 'Infernus Sinfonica II' Show Live At Pepsi Center WTC In Mexico
FOREIGNER Announces Career-Spanning Set Turning Back The Time, Previously Unreleased Song By MICK JONES And LOU GRAMM, "Turning Back The Time" Streaming
MIKE TRAMP Shares New Single "Out With The Boys"
PAGANFEST Returns in 2025 After 10 Year Hiatus
VOODOO CIRCLE Unveil New Album Hail To The King
BABYLON A.D. Drop Third Single, Video For ​"Sometimes Love Is Hell"
DEVIN TOWNSEND Readies New Studio Album Powernerd
DIAMANTE Returns With New Single, Video "All For The Glory"
POP EVIL, BAD WOLVES Announce 2024 Co-Headline "The Animal Instinct Tour"
HATCHET Cover Classic W.A.S.P. Song "Hellion"
IN THIS MOMENT Launch "Sanctify Me" Video, Announce Fall 'Godmode Tour Part 2'
ECLIPSE Share New Single, Video For "Still My Hero"
TESLA Bassist BRIAN WHEAT, Rising Star ALEX Form New Band VIOLET BREED
W.A.S.P. Announce 'Album One Alive' 2024 US Tour Contest
GRAND SLAM Release THIN LIZZY Cover Video For "Whiskey In The Jar"
FALLING IN REVERSE Release New Video For Track "Prequel"
DARK FUNERAL Announces Headlining Off-Day Performances During Upcoming Tour With GWAR
STRIKER Launches "Live To Fight Another Day Video
2024 METAL INJECTION FESTIVAL Reveals Daily Lineups
KINGS OF MERCIA Return With Second Album, Battle Scars



HOME | MAGAZINE | VIDS | STORE | HELP/POLICIES

©2024 KNAC.COM. All Rights Reserved.    Link to us    Advertise with us    Privacy policy
 Latest News