AMON AMARTH: New Video Interview With OLAVI MIKKONEN
November 30, 2011Stormbringer.at webzine conducted an interview with guitarist Olavi Mikkonen of Swedish death metallers AMON AMARTH when the band played at Gasometer in Vienna, Austria on November 24, 2011. You can now watch the chat below. Also available is behind-the-scenes footage from AMON AMARTH's just-completed European headlining tour.
AMON AMARTH's eighth studio album, "Surtur Rising", sold around 15,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 34 on The Billboard 200 chart. The band's previous CD, "Twilight of the Thunder God", opened with more than 11,000 copies back in 2008 to land at No. 48.
Named in tribute to Surtur, leader of the fire giants of Muspelheim ("flame land") and the oldest being in the nine worlds of Norse mythology, "Surtur Rising", which came out in North America on March 29 via Metal Blade Records, features 10 tracks of sword-wielding, fist-pumping, hyper climactic battle anthems. The album was once again recorded at Fascination Street Studios in rebro, Sweden with Jens Bogren and features strikingly brutal cover art by Tom Thiel.
Interview:
Behind-the-scenes footage from the road:
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