Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, founded in 1988 (current name since 1992), and named after an alternative name for Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth. As of 2009, the band is signed with Metal Blade Records and has released seven studio albums, one EP, one DVD, and seven music videos.
The band bases most of their songs on Norse mythology, the Viking Age, and the pre-Christian world. This mythology is an element that originally emerged as an ideological off-shoot of black metal in a genre known as Viking metal in the early 1990s, made popular by such bands as Bathory and Enslaved. Lead singer Johan Hegg’s sister has once contributed lyrics for the band for the song “A Thousand Years of Oppression” on Versus the World[

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  MOTÖRHEAD, AMON AMARTH, AS I LAY DYING, OBITUARY, GHOST BRIGADE and JOB FOR A COWBOY have been confirmed for this year's edition of the Graspop Metal Meeting, set to take place June 25-27, 2010 in Dessel, Belgium. ...
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  Making their video game debut on January 21 are three well-known metal bands, SHADOWS FALL, AMON AMARTH, and DETHKLOK. Players can thrash along to "Still I Rise", a track off SHADOWS FALL's sixth studio album, "Retribution"; ...
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  Members of AMON AMARTH, CRUCIFIED BARBARA, DEAD BY APRIL, DIA PSALMA, HAMMERFALL, MANDO DIAO, MILLENCOLIN, MOTÖRHEAD, SONIC SYNDICATE, THE HIVES and THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES all had their pics taken with their pets as well, ...

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• Amon Amarth
  Official site for the Viking-themed melodic death metal band Amon Amarth. Includes news, audio/video clips, tour dates, photos, and fan forum.
• Amon Amarth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed, melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden, founded in ... When Johan Hegg joined the band, their music changed towards melodic ...
• Amon Amarth - MySpace
  Offers photos, music downloads, tour dates, blog entries, and a chance for fans of the death metal group Amon Amarth to post messages to the band.