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Viking metal warriors Amon Amarth have announced that they will return to pillage and burn the North American territories this summer. The band is billing this group of shows as An Evening With Amon Amarth. The tour will feature no opening or support acts...

2008's 'Twilight of the Thunder God' catapulted Swedish death metallers Amon Amarth to new heights -- sold-out shows, new countries, and their biggest sales in the US. In a recent chat with Noisecreep, guitarist Johan Söderberg admitted that expectations were quite high when it was time to begin work on their eighth album, 'Surtur Rising,' which caused some stress when writing. "I... Read Mo

The sword-wielding, iron-fisted Amon Amarth are one of the key Swedish bands to put Viking metal on the map. Their new album, 'Surtur Rising' -- due out via longtime label Metal Blade on March 29 -- will continue the tradition of raping and pillaging, metaphorically speaking...

Metalheads are some of the most devoted music fans on the planet. Not only do we voraciously devour new music like no one else, we also can't enough information about the artists we love. Now more than ever, it seems like there's a press release on floating around every other week about a heavy metal-related book hitting stores...

"It doesn't matter if you don't know the lyrics, it's death metal!" yelles Amon Amarth frontman Johan Hegg as he tried to reason with the crowd. Yet, I don't think the Swedish death metaller realized that: everyone did know the lyrics to 'Pursuit of Vikings' -- which was the last song the band played at Irving Plaza on April 25...

Cattle Decapitation have played New England Metal and Hardcore Festival a handful of times. Last year, the grindcore band headlined the second stage -- which is a pretty small space. The crowd's response trumped almost everything else that happened on the second stage that weekend...

Amon Amarth continue to swing their battle axes and sacrifice metal virgins whilst on tour with Holy Grail and Eluveitie as part of the Twilight of the Thunder God II Tour. Johann Hegg, vocalist for these Viking metallers, checked in from the road, telling Noisecreep, "So we're over the hump, and we have reached Montreal...

Swords. Mead. Pillaging. Raw meat. Those are the first images that come to mind when we think Viking. Oh yeah, and Amon Amarth, too, since they are the quintessential viking metal band of this century, fusing elements of blackened death metal with old world imagery...

Los Angeles metallers Holy Grail -- their sound is a nod to classic metal acts like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, but don't call 'em throwbacks -- will hit the road to tour with Viking metal Amon Amarth this April. Before laying waste to venues, Holy Grail will finish recording their Prosthetic debut, 'Crisis in Utopia...

Action! PR, the full-service, boutique agency run by former Relapse PR maven Carl Schultz that represents artists like High on Fire, the Sword and a host of others, will sponsor their first official South by Southwest showcase on March 17 at The Mohawk...