Well, the cruise is now over, and as far as we know, Amon Amarth didn’t eat any wayward tourists.
Did anyone actually go up on deck into the sunlight?.Was the bilge big enough to hold all the projectile vomiting?.Did Amon Amarth eat any of those tourists?.How many tourists signed up for this, thinking it was just a normal Caribbean cruise?.How many passengers are still in jail on Cozumel?.How many people were hospitalized along the way?.How many people went over the side, never to be seen again?.“70,000 Tons of Metal” - but what was the total tonnage of weed smuggled on board?.In fact, in the first of several posts about the cruise, as it was being announced and promoted, we said this on February 2, 2010, imagining what we would be asking a year later as the cruise ship limped back to port: The backstory: Amon Amarth was one of the bands on that 70,000 TONS OF METAL cruise that we started making fun of more than a year ago. It offers temptations, sometimes temptations that I find irresistible.
Sometimes, the Internet is a very bad thing. Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 2:30 am Tagged with: Amon Amarth, As I Lay Dying, Entombed, L.G. So, after the jump - Euro tour dates and that video. If you’re as big a metal geek as I am ( no need for you to confess out loud), you know you have to watch this, just so you’ll be able to die happy if you get flattened by a beer truck while crossing the street today. Plus, I mean, it’s LG Petrov singing with Amon Amarth on “Guardians of Asgard”. This is fan-filmed footage, so the audio quality isn’t ideal (though it isn’t terrible), but the video quality is pretty good. But as it happens, you can sort of have that cake and eat it, too, because LG Petrov of Entombed provided guest vocals on “Guardians of Asgard” with Amon Amarth when the band played the Metalfest festival in Switzerland on May 29 - and of course it was captured on video. If you do a word-association exercise, and you say the first band that comes to mind when someone says “ AMON AMARTH!”, the odds are you’re not going to say “ AS I LAY DYING!”Ī band like Entombed would have been closer to what I would have guessed. I sure wouldn’t have guessed that match-up, even though I like both bands and they’re both in the Metal Blade stable. If you guessed As I Lay Dying, then you’re a fucking genius. Can you guess who will be supporting them on that tour? Go ahead - close your eyes so you don’t see the answer and take a guess. Yes, Amon Amarth will be embarking on a 15-country tour of the UK and the Continent beginning on October 12 in Stuttgart, Germany. metal blog is going to say anything about a European tour at all? I’m a day or two late reporting the schedule for Amon Amarth‘s European tour, but I forgive myself. Continue reading » Posted by Islander at 3:36 pm Tagged with: Amon Amarth, Fredrik Andersson That supernatural quality is enhanced in this clip by the eruptions of flame that occur throughout the video, as if ejected from the drum kit itself, and by the smoke that eventually enshrouds Andersson before ultimately clearing near the end. To me, it’s phenomenal.īut that’s only part of the attraction. Maybe what Andersson is doing on this song would be basic, ho-hum stuff to a metal drummer watching it. Basically, to me, watching any capable extreme metal drummer in action is like witnessing a form of supernatural achievement. It helps if you know the song already - as well you should - because the sound of the other instruments and Johan Hegg’s vocals are muffled on the audio track, given the camera’s position - but this is still very, very cool. The video after the jump records the performance from just behind and to the left of drummer Fredrik Andersson.
On July 24, 2011, Amon Amarth played the Tuska Open Air Metal Festival in Helsinki Finland. The first song on their set was “War of the Gods”.
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