AMON AMARTH: New Video Interview Available

February 26, 2008

Swedish metal vikings AMON AMARTH were interviewed by Johnny Orlando, Jr. in Chicago during the recently completed "Wrath Of The Norsemen" tour alongside HIMSA and SONIC SYNDICATE. Johan Hegg and Ted Lundstrom talk about the questions they are sick of answering, offer parenting tips and reveal their favorite types of cheese. The guys also explain the myth behind "Hermod's Ride To Hel" with a bloody puppet show.

The entire clip can be viewed below.

AMON AMARTH recently renewed its contract with Metal Blade Records. The three-album, worldwide deal will kick off with the band's follow-up release to 2006's highly praised "With Oden on Our Side", which the band is currently hard at work writing. "The plan is to return to Fascination Street Studios in May to record the new album, once again working with Jens Bogren as engineer and producer," states the band. There will be more details to come in the following weeks and months so stay tuned for more updates from the band.

AMON AMARTH recently returned home from an extensive world tour including their first-ever headlining U.S. tour, where the band played several shows to sellout crowds. AMON AMARTH also achieved gold record sales awards in both the U.S. and Canada for their three-disc DVD "Wrath of the Norsemen", which features footage from a show in Cologne from 2005 filmed with 11 cameras, professionally filmed shows from Summer Breeze 2005, the Metal Blade Rrroooaaarrr 2005, Wacken Open Air 2004 and the release show for Fates Of Norns in Ludwigsburg (Germany) in 2004.

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