Swedish Metal Gods AMON AMARTH (
album review) have been officially confirmed to play the Wacken Open Air in 2009. Read the official press release here:
W:O:A - Wacken Open Air : INTRO
AMON AMARTH
(live video) have started putting up an online diary on their MySpace site about the just recently started North American tour. “Three shows into our North American tour and so far it’s been a blast We started out at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA, on October 1st. And what a tour kick-off it was! Already before the show we knew this was going to be a special show that night. As it was only us and Ensiferum playing we were able to play a slightly longer set and we did as many as five new songs. It’s always a bit nervous playing the new songs as you don’t know how people are going to react to them if they haven’t really heard them before, but the songs we played really went across well with the audience. It was a really tough show for us though as we were suffering from severe jetlag, but at the end of the day all went well and we had a blast on stage. Still, there was no problems falling asleep later… or should I say passing out…”
Read more on the blog section of the AMON AMARTH MySpace site – click here:
MySpace UK
Just recently AMON AMARTH singer Johan Hegg and SLAYER guitarist Kerry King guested at Bruce Dicksinson's Friday Rock Radio show. A stream of the entire show is available here:
BBC - Homepage