Amon Amarth’s Once Sent From Golden Hall was re-issued and released a little over a month ago, remastered and with a live cd. The next album up for re-issue through metal blade records is their 1999 release, The Avenger. The announcement came on their myspace page this morning:
Disc two features the live recording of the show AMON AMARTH played on December 29, 2008 in Bochum, Germany where they played the album in its entirety.

Having to deal with computer problems today has got my week off to a bad start. What could possibly fix that? A bad ass video from Amon Amarth. Myspace debuted Amon Amarth’s new, epic video from Twilight Of The Thunder God. Here is Guardians Of Asgaard, which also features guest vocals by Lars Göran Petrov of Entombed and appearance by Children Of Bodom guitarist Roope Latvala. Enjoy.
 
Guardians Of Asgaard ft. LG Petrov

Amon Amarth will be re-issuing their first four albums this year in a special edition format but at regular CD price. Starting with Once Sent From Golden Hall, the reissue will be remixed and will include bonus tracks and a live DVD. From what I’m gathering it’s going to be their first 4 albums on Metal Blade and not anything before that.
The Live DVD in the first re-issue will be from a recent concert on December 28 in Bochum, Germany. The track list for the re-issue is below.

2008 has been a great year for metal. Here is my Top 10 Favorite Metal Albums of 2008 (that I own). I know that there are probably a lot of other amazing metal albums that came out this year but I can only go off of what I own and what I’ve heard. So more or less these are my favorites and not some definitive collection of what I think is the best. How many people can honestly say that they have heard and thoroughly listened to every new metal album that came out this year? Anyway, let’s get …read more

Amon Amarth frontman, Johan Hegg recently contributed a guest blog over at Headbangers blog. He thanks the fans, talks about the bands growth in popularity and touring. Here is a short excerpt from the blog.
It’s hard to imagine that only a few years ago we were still holding down full time jobs and having to use our vacations to do tours. How we managed to do that and not get fired is anybody’s guess, but we must have been very fortunate to have understanding bosses. It was tough, though, and we sometimes would up coming straight off tour and …read more

Metalsucks.net and metal Injection sponsored a contest to make a bad-ass 1 minute video for Amon Amarth. The winner received the complete Metal Blad Amon Amarth Discogrpahy, DVD set and the newest release, Twilight Of The Thunder God. The winner was announced yesterday. The winner was a dude named Christian who submitted an animated short "The Wild Hunt". It’s a cool little Macromedia Flash animation.

You can check out the other entries over at Metal injection and also enter their newest video contest for Krisiun’s "Slaying Steel"

Who ever said metal would never be big was a complete fool. Both Trivium and Amon Amarth have landed in the top 50 of the Billboard 200. Look at it this way. These metal bands are all in the top 100. There may be more.

Metallica – Death Magnetic
Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone
All That Remains – Overcome
Disturbed – Indestructible
Underoath – Lost In Separation
All Shall Perish – Awaken The Dreamers

So metal is pretty much kickin ass on the billboard charts as far as album sales go. Both Twilight Of The Thunder God and Shogun are great albums, so it …read more

If you have already read any other reviews on Amon Amarth’s new record Twilight Of The Thunder God then you know what they are saying. It’s nothing really new or different from their last cd, With Oden On Our Side. It’s just another Amon Amarth album. It’s like a continuation of With Oden’. It’s heavy, filled with great metal rhythms and riffs, typical Amon Amarth solos and lyrics about Viking stuff. The vocals sound a bit deeper and grittier than their last, sort of the way they sound in Fate Of Norns but much more clear and not drowned …read more

Today there are some pretty good releases. I ran to the mall this morning to pick up the new Trivium and Amon Amarth. Sampled a little bit of each one and so far no complaints.
Misery Index Released Traitors on Relapse Records today
Amon Amarth released Twilight Of The Thunder God on Metal Blade
Trivium released Shogun on Roadrunner
Bleeding Through released Declaration on Trustkill
In This Moment released The Dream through Century Media
Prosthetic Records released Antagonist’s label debut Exist
Megadeth Anthology: Set The World Afire was released on Capital/EMI
Facedown Records released Call To Preserve’s From Isolation

Check it out. It just seems that Vikings and fire just never get old. Pillage the village! Metalsucks.net just ran a review of ‘Twilight. Pre-order Twilight Of The Thunder God here.
 
Twilight of the Thunder God