Johan Hegg took a tumble throughout AMON AMARTH‘s live performance Thursday night time (July 3) on the 35,000-capacity Blackweir Fields in Cardiff, United Kingdom because the assist act for SLAYER. The incident occurred whereas the singer was in the midst of performing the opening music of the band’s set, “Guardians Of Asgaard”. A fan-filmed video displaying Hegg slipping after which falling earlier than rapidly lifting himself up could be seen beneath.
AMON AMARTH will crew up with PANTERA on a summer season 2025 U.S. amphitheater tour. Produced by Stay Nation, the journey will start on July 15 in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania and wind its approach by over two dozen cities, coming to a detailed on September 13 in West Palm Seaside, Florida. Assist on the trek on choose dates will come from KING PARROT, SNAFU, SHOCK NARCOTIC and FLESH HOARDER.
AMON AMARTH‘s newest album, “The Nice Heathen Military”, was launched in August 2022 through Metallic Blade Data. The LP was recorded with acclaimed British producer Andy Sneap, who beforehand labored with the band on 2013’s “Deceiver Of The Gods” and 2016’s “Jomsviking” albums.
Hegg beforehand acknowledged about “The Nice Heathen Military”: “General ‘The Nice Heathen Military’ is likely one of the heavier albums we have made. There are some darkish and heavy songs which can be actually highly effective and in your face, however we clearly have some trademark melodic AMON AMARTH songs on there as effectively and some surprises too. It is a actually well-balanced album. It sounds nice. Andy Sneap is superior. It was nice to have the ability to work with him once more.”
Guitarist Olavi Mikkonen added: “We have been away making new music and we’re again with new darker, extra demise metal-sounding album. If ‘Berserker’ was our ‘heavy steel’ album, then ‘The Nice Heathen Military’ is our ‘demise steel’ album. However with that mentioned, it is nonetheless very a lot up to date AMON AMARTH, however maybe style-wise we now have gone again to our roots a bit of bit.”
Shaped in 1992, AMON AMARTH grew to become trendy steel greats the arduous approach. Ruthlessly devoted to creating new music and taking it out on the street, the Swedes steadily constructed a formidable fame as a ferocious reside band and, because the years handed, had been more and more acknowledged for his or her recorded achievements too. For the reason that daybreak of the millennium, AMON AMARTH has been unstoppable.
Breakthrough releases like 2006’s “With Oden On Our Facet” and its now-legendary follow-up, 2008’s “Twilight Of The Thunder God” additional cemented their reputation all through the steel world, whereas the band’s stage present developed with every successive tour, reworking into considered one of trendy steel’s really nice spectacles. 2019’s “Berserker” introduced with it an epic, history-making trek throughout North America with fellow Swedes ARCH ENEMY, AT THE GATES and GRAND MAGUS and noticed a number of sell-outs.
