"never get a swimming pool. Ever. Period.” It’s not quite what we expected Amon Amarth frontman and 6’3” Viking lookalike Johan Hegg to open with when he joins our Zoom call. Nonetheless, we shouldn’t be surprised to hear he’s doing so well that the biggest problem in his life is a dodgy water pump. The Swedish melodeath berserkers are among metal’s most powerful forces, after all. Their growly anthems about Norse myth and warfare have pushed them to festival headliner status – not to mention the Top 10 of album charts all over Europe. They’ve even lent their songwriting skills to pro wrestling, chiselling out Get In The Ring for AEW and former WWE brute, Erick Redbeard.
With Amon Amarth’s long-awaited 12th album, looming on the horizon, we sat Johan and Erick down face-to-face (or, rather, video-to-video) and Viking-motherfucker-to-Viking-motherfucker. The pair quickly bond over a mutual love of contact sports and, from there, discuss everything
