The Great Heathen Army | ||||
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Released | 5 August 2022 | |||
Studio | Backstage Productions, Derbyshire, England. | |||
Genre | Melodic death metal | |||
Length | 42:59 | |||
Label | Metal Blade, Sony Music | |||
Producer | Andy Sneap | |||
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Singles from The Great Heathen Army | ||||
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The Great Heathen Army is the twelfth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth. It was released on 5 August 2022, through Metal Blade Records and Sony Music. [1]
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Source | Rating |
AngryMetalGuy | [2] |
Blabbermouth.net | 8.5/10 [3] |
Kerrang! | [4] |
Metal Injection | 8/10 [5] |
Metal Storm | 5.5/10 [6] |
Sonic Perspectives | 9/10 [7] |
Sputnikmusic | [8] |
Dan Slessor of Kerrang! described the album as "a step back towards their melodic death metal origins, and it is definitely to their betterment, delivering perhaps the strongest collection since 2008's Twilight of the Thunder God ". [4]
Blabbermouth.net portrayed the album as "Both an unapologetic, festival-ready dose of new, gleaming, Viking-populated anthems, and one of the darkest and most brutal albums they have yet made". [3]
All songs written by Amon Amarth, except additional lyrics on "Saxons and Vikings" by Biff Byford.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Get in the Ring" | 4:24 |
2. | "The Great Heathen Army" | 4:04 |
3. | "Heidrun" | 4:42 |
4. | "Oden Owns You All" | 4:17 |
5. | "Find a Way or Make One" | 4:30 |
6. | "Dawn of Norsemen" | 5:32 |
7. | "Saxons and Vikings" (featuring Saxon) | 4:55 |
8. | "Skagul Rides with Me" | 4:34 |
9. | "The Serpent's Trail" | 6:01 |
Total length: | 42:59 |
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Amon Amarth is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Tumba, formed in 1992. The band takes its name from the Sindarin name of Mount Doom, a volcano in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Their lyrics mostly deal with Viking mythology and history, and so they have been sometimes erroneously labeled "Viking metal", although the band insists they play melodic death metal.
Peter Rodney "Biff" Byford is an English singer best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Saxon.
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