Amon Amarth Drop New Single via Music Video About Tabletop Gaming
Last month, Swedish Viking metallers Amon Amarth announced their new album The Great Heathen Army. Now, the band have dropped a third single from that record via a music video about, uh, playing with minitatures!
The song is the album’s title track, and is pretty much what one would expect from Amon Amarth — big, pounding death metal about historical warfare and the battlefield and all that shit. The video, meanwhile, is about two boys who find Amon Amarth: The Tabletop Game and immerse themselves in a world of dice, miniature Vikings, and other stuff that they’ll pretend they don’t like in high school only to re-embrace in college.
Says the band of the song:
“The armada of the Great Heathen Army is at sea on the way to raid, but before we land at distant shores on August 5th we have a new single and video for you to feast on. This is the title track from the new album with a video we shot with the talented Pavel Trebukhin in Riga, Latvia. Who will you choose to fight with? The Vikings or the Saxons? Choose well and the Gods will decide your fate.”
Check out the video below. Amon Amarth’s The Great Heathen Army drops August 5th via Metal Blade, and is available for preorder.
Meanwhile, catch Amon Amarth alongside Machine Head at one of the dates listed below:
September 08th NOTTINGHAM, Arena
September 09th CARDIFF, Arena
September 10th LONDON, Wembley Arena
September 12th MANCHESTER, Arena
September 13th DUBLIN, 3 Arena
September 16th ZURICH, Hallenstadion
September 17th VIENNA, Stadthalle
September 18th KRAKOW, Tauron Arena
September 20th TALLINN, Saku Arena
September 21st HELSINKI, Ice Hall
September 23rd OSLO, Spektrum
September 24th STOCKHOLM, Hovet
September 26th COPENHAGEN, Forum Black Box
September 27th HAMBURG, Barclays Arena
September 28th FRANKFURT, Festhalle
September 30th OBERHAUSEN, König Pilsener Arena
October 01st BERLIN, Velodrom
October 02nd AMSTERDAM, Afas Live
October 04th MILANO, Lorenzini District
October 06th BARCELONA, Sant Jordi
October 07th MADRID, Vistalegre
October 08th LA CORUNA, Coliseum
October 09th LISBON, Campo Pequeno
October 12th PARIS, Zenith
October 14th MUNICH, Olympiahalle
October 15th LEIPZIG, Arena
October 16th PRAGUE, Tipsport Arena
October 18th BUDAPEST, Barba Negra
October 20th ESCH SUR ALZETTE, Rockhal
October 21st BRUSSELS, Forest National
October 22nd STUTTGART, Schleyerhalle
Amon Amarth’s The Great Heathen Army:
- Get In the Ring
- The Great Heathen Army
- Heidrun
- Oden Owns You All
- Find a Way or Make One
- Dawn of Norsemen
- Saxons and Vikings
- Skagul Rides With Me
- The Serpent’s Trail
