Amon Amarth has announced that their new album The Great Heathen Army will release on August 05th through Metal Blade Records.
Along with the news the band released a video for their song “Get In The Ring“, which was written for professional wrestler Erick Redheard (formerly known as Erick Rowan in WWE). Redbeard also stars in the video, which you can find below.
While speaking on the album, Johan Hegg, the band’s vocalist offered:
“Overall ‘The Great Heathen Army‘ is one of the heavier albums we’ve made. There are some dark and heavy songs that are really powerful and in-your-face, but we obviously have some trademark melodic Amon Amarth songs on there as well, and a few surprises too. It’s a really well-balanced album. It sounds great. Andy Sneap is awesome. It was great to be able to work with him again.”
Olavi Mikkonen the band’s guitarist added:
“We’ve been away making new music and we’re back with new darker, more death-metal sounding album. If ‘Berserker‘ was our ‘heavy metal’ album, then ‘The Great Heathen Army‘ is our ‘death metal’ album. But with that said, it’s still very much contemporary Amon Amarth, but perhaps style-wise we have gone back to our roots a little bit.”
“I really like ‘Get In The Ring‘ which was written for our friend Erick Redbeard the pro wrestler as an ‘entrance’ song for him. The lyrics are obviously written to fit both Viking and wrestling themes, and you can also see Erick as the lead character in the new video for the song. We shot the video in Wroclaw, Poland with our friends Grupa 13 and they helped us create this dark and epic Mad Max meets Viking underground super brutal fight club for the video clip.”
The Great Heathen Army track listing:
01 – “Get In The Ring”
02 – “The Great Heathen Army”
03 – “Heidrun”
04 – “Oden Owns You All”
05 – “Find A Way Or Make One”
06 – “Dawn Of Norsemen”
07 – “Saxons And Vikings”
08 – “Skagul Rides With Me”
09 – “The Serpent’s Trail ”
