Surtur Rising

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Surtur Rising
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Amon Amarth
Released29 March 2011 (2011-03-29)
StudioFascination Street Studio, Örebro, Sweden
Genre Melodic death metal
Length48:40
Label Metal Blade, Sony Music
Producer Jens Bogren
Amon Amarth chronology
Twilight of the Thunder God
(2008)		Surtur Rising
(2011)		 Deceiver of the Gods
(2013)

Surtur Rising is the eighth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth. It is named after the mythical giant, Surtr. The album was released on 29 March 2011. The album debuted at number 34 on the American Billboard 200 chart as well as number 19 on the Canadian album charts. [1]

Contents

On 27 June 2011, the band released a music video, with footage taken during a live performance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and directed by David Brodsky, for the third track on the album, "Destroyer of the Universe". [2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 82/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Blabbermouth.net Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Metal Hammer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [6]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Revolver Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]

Surtur Rising was released to universal acclaim. Germany's Metal Hammer chose the album as the album of the month in March 2011. [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Amon Amarth

Standard CD edition [4]
No.TitleLength
1."War of the Gods"4:33
2."Töck's Taunt – Loke's Treachery Part II [9] "5:58
3."Destroyer of the Universe"3:41
4."Slaves of Fear"4:25
5."Live Without Regrets"5:03
6."The Last Stand of Frej"5:37
7."For Victory or Death"4:30
8."Wrath of the Norsemen"3:44
9."A Beast Am I"5:14
10."Doom Over Dead Man"5:55
Total length:48:40
iTunes edition bonus track [10] [11]
No.TitleLength
11."Aerials" (System of a Down cover)3:39
Japanese edition bonus track [10]
No.TitleLength
11."War Machine" (Kiss cover)3:35
Deluxe CD/DVD edition bonus tracks [12] [10]
No.TitleLength
11."Balls to the Wall" (Accept Cover)5:22
12."War Machine" (Kiss cover)3:35
Digipak edition

The digipack edition includes a 10-track audio CD and a bonus Live DVD. [12]

The length of the last track, "Doom over dead Man", is listed as 7:32 on the back of the album, but skipping to the track or ripping it produces a song length of 5:55. An instrumental part 1:37 long is hidden in the pregap between tracks 9 and 10, which can only be heard by rewinding or playing straight through. [10]

Live DVD

This DVD, included in the digipack and deluxe editions, contains over four hours of live concert footage filmed during the "Bloodshed Over Bochum" concert series in 2008 where Amon Amarth played the first four albums on four successive nights. [12]

Once Sent from the Golden Hall
No.TitleLength
1."Ride for Vengeance" 
2."The Dragon's Flight Across the Waves" 
3."Without Fear" 
4."Victorious March" 
5."Friends of the Suncross" 
6."Abandoned" 
7."Amon Amarth" 
8."Once Sent from the Golden Hall" 
The Avenger
No.TitleLength
1."Bleed for Ancient Gods" 
2."The Last with Pagan Blood" 
3."North Sea Storm" 
4."Avenger" 
5."God, His Son and Holy Whore" 
6."Metalwrath" 
7."Legend of a Banished Man" 
The Crusher
No.TitleLength
1."Bastards of a Lying Breed" 
2."Masters of War" 
3."The Sound of Eight Hooves" 
4."Risen from the Sea" 
5."As Long as the Raven Flies" 
6."A Fury Divine" 
7."Annihilation of Hammerfest" 
8."The Fall Through Ginnungagap" 
9."Releasing Surtur's Fire" 
Versus the World
No.TitleLength
1."Death in Fire" 
2."For the Stabwounds in Our Backs" 
3."Where Silent Gods Stand Guard" 
4."Versus the World" 
5."Across the Rainbow Bridge" 
6."Down the Slopes of Death" 
7."Thousand Years of Oppression" 
8."Bloodshed" 
9."...And Soon the World Will Cease to Be" 
Vinyl picture disc editions

A 2-sided vinyl LP picture disc is also available in the North American market with the following 10 tracks, [13] and the European market edition includes a 4-sided vinyl LP picture disc with the following 10 tracks and "Balls to the Wall" (Accept cover) bonus track, with the fourth side etched. [14]

Personnel

Production and performance credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

Amon Amarth
Production
Guest musicians

Charts

Chart (2011)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [15] 12
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [16] 45
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [17] 54
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [18] 19
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [19] 62
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [20] 16
French Albums (SNEP) [21] 146
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [22] 8
Irish Albums (IRMA) [23] 76
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [24] 8
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [25] 20
UK Albums (OCC) [26] 75
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [27] 10
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [28] 6
US Billboard 200 [29] 34
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [30] 6
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard) [31] 1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [32] 7
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [33] 10

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