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Just noticed that there hasn't been much discussion on these crazy Swedish vikings, so I thought I'd start one. Anyone listen to Amon Amarth? I've only gotten into them a few months ago (thanks to recommendations from here). I saw them live today and they absolutely kicked arse; I've never been in (or seen!) such a huge mosh pit before.
To get some more in-depth discussion, I thought I'd show this bit of news: Amon Amarth are playing their first four studio albums in their entireties in four separate gigs in Germany, as well as select songs from their latest two albums and some new up-coming stuff:
"Reconquering the past
4 Evenings - 4 Shows - 4 Albums
Zeche Bochum, Germany
28.12.2008 ONCE SENT FROM THE GOLDEN HALL
29.12.2008 THE AVENGER
30.12.2008 THE CRUSHER
31.12.2008 VERSUS THE WORLD
Apart from playing the 4 albums in their entirety each night there will be a best of mix from "Fate Of Norns", "With Oden On Our Side" and of course the new upcoming album!
+Meet and greet with the band
+Special merchandise sold at each show
+New Years Eve Party on the 31.12
We've had plans of doing a smaller club show tour for quite some time now
where we'd mainly play older songs, but that has been very hard to pull off.
So when this idea was brought to us of re-visiting the 4 first full lenght
albums at Bochum in Germany we were all up for it.
This will be a once in a life time chance for us to play and our fans to
experience all the old songs that we don't have room for in the setlist
anymore, but are still too good to not play! Of course we'll also play songs from the new upcoming album, as well as "With Oden On Our Side" and "Fate Of Norns".
Since these shows will be unique we thought we'd might as well record the
shows too!
We're thrilled over this event and look forward to the shows. It will be
some hard work and preparation playing around 50 -60 different songs in 4
days. Some songs we haven't played for a very, very long time and some we've
never played live at all. But challenges are something that encourages us!
See you all there!"
Even if you don't like the band, what do you think of a move like this? Something even Maiden could learn from, no? They're basically relearning their first four albums just to play each song once. True, Maiden's songs are more complex, but this is still a very bold move. Respect from me.
To get some more in-depth discussion, I thought I'd show this bit of news: Amon Amarth are playing their first four studio albums in their entireties in four separate gigs in Germany, as well as select songs from their latest two albums and some new up-coming stuff:
"Reconquering the past
4 Evenings - 4 Shows - 4 Albums
Zeche Bochum, Germany
28.12.2008 ONCE SENT FROM THE GOLDEN HALL
29.12.2008 THE AVENGER
30.12.2008 THE CRUSHER
31.12.2008 VERSUS THE WORLD
Apart from playing the 4 albums in their entirety each night there will be a best of mix from "Fate Of Norns", "With Oden On Our Side" and of course the new upcoming album!
+Meet and greet with the band
+Special merchandise sold at each show
+New Years Eve Party on the 31.12
We've had plans of doing a smaller club show tour for quite some time now
where we'd mainly play older songs, but that has been very hard to pull off.
So when this idea was brought to us of re-visiting the 4 first full lenght
albums at Bochum in Germany we were all up for it.
This will be a once in a life time chance for us to play and our fans to
experience all the old songs that we don't have room for in the setlist
anymore, but are still too good to not play! Of course we'll also play songs from the new upcoming album, as well as "With Oden On Our Side" and "Fate Of Norns".
Since these shows will be unique we thought we'd might as well record the
shows too!
We're thrilled over this event and look forward to the shows. It will be
some hard work and preparation playing around 50 -60 different songs in 4
days. Some songs we haven't played for a very, very long time and some we've
never played live at all. But challenges are something that encourages us!
See you all there!"
Even if you don't like the band, what do you think of a move like this? Something even Maiden could learn from, no? They're basically relearning their first four albums just to play each song once. True, Maiden's songs are more complex, but this is still a very bold move. Respect from me.