AMON AMARTH Releases Berserker Full-Length; North American Tour With Slayer, Lamb Of God, And Cannibal Corpse Underway

AMON AMARTH is in the midst of their North American tour with Slayer. The journey will make its way through sixteen cities upon its conclusion at the Xfinity Center Amphitheatre in Mansfield, Massachusetts on May 25th. Additional support is being provided by Lamb Of God and labelmates Cannibal Corpse. See all confirmed dates below.

 

The tour comes in conjunction with the release of Berserker, AMON AMARTH‘s eleventh full-length studio offering. Out today via Metal Blade Records (North America)/Sony Music (International), the record features twelve monstrous heavy metal anthems. From the disarming melodrama and explosive riffing of opener “Fafner’s Gold” and the brutish simplicity of the rampaging “Crack The Sky,” to the epic fury of “Raven’s Flight” and the grim, gritty storytelling of “Ironside” and “Skoll And Hati,” Berserker is an album full of trademark AMON AMARTH bluster and bite but with every aspect of the band’s sound somehow refined, sonically enhanced, and made vastly more potent, both in terms of metal oomph and emotional power. 

 

Berserker was recorded in Los Angeles with renowned studio guru Jay Ruston (Anthrax/Stone Sour). After recording several rounds of professional demos for the new songs — initially with fellow Swedish metal icon Peter Tägtgren and then later with Ruston himself — the band crossed the Atlantic to make final the recordings in LA, eager to take a fresh approach to the album-making process.    

 

Preview and purchase AMON AMARTH‘s Berserker at https://amonamarth.lnk.to/berserker.

 

AMON AMARTH w/ Slayer, Lamb Of God, Cannibal Corpse:
5/03/2019 Isleta Amphitheatre – Albuquerque, NM
5/05/2019 UTEP/Don Haskins Center – El Paso, TX
5/07/2019 Bert Ogden Arena – Edinburg, TX
5/08/2019 The Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory – Dallas, TX
5/10/2019 MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre – Tampa, FL
5/11/2019 Coral Sky Amphitheatre – West Palm Beach, FL
5/13/2019 Big Sandy Superstore Arena – Huntington, WV
5/14/2019 Merriweasther Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD
5/16/2019 Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center – Noblesville, IN
5/17/2019 Providence Medical Center Amphitheatre – Bonner Springs, KS
5/19/2019 DTE Energy Music Center – Clarkston, MI
5/20/2019 Covel Centre – Youngstown, OH
5/22/2019 Canadian Tire Centre – Ottawa, ON
5/24/2019 BB&T Pavilion – Camden, NJ
5/25/2019 Xfinity Center – Mansfield, MA

 

CANNIBAL CORPSE Announces North American Tour Dates With Slayer, Lamb Of God, And Amon Amarth

CANNIBAL CORPSE will play “Leg Five: North America” of Slayer‘s Final World Tour this spring. The journey begins May 2nd in Phoenix, Arizona and runs through sixteen cities, concluding on May 25th in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Additional support will be provided by Lamb Of God and labelmates Amon Amarth. 

 

Comments the band, “We are extremely honored to be sharing the stage with Amon Amarth, Lamb Of God and of course Slayer this spring on their farewell tour! To be a part of this historic event will be something we will never forget!”

 

The journey with Slayer will follow CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s previously announced co-headlining run with Morbid Angel on this year’s Decibel Magazine Tour in February/March. See all confirmed dates below. 

  

CANNIBAL CORPSE On The Decibel Magazine Tour 2019 w/ Morbid Angel, Blood Incantation, Necrot:
2/17/2019 Alamo Music Hall – San Antonio, TX
2/19/2019 Club Xs – Tucson, AZ
2/20/2019 The Observatory – San Diego, CA
2/21/2019 The Fonda Theater – Los Angeles, CA
2/22/2019 The Observatory – Santa Ana, CA
2/23/2019 The Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA
2/25/2019 Roseland Ballroom – Portland, OR
2/26/2019 Showbox Market – Seattle, WA
3/01/2019 The Oriental Theater – Denver, CO
3/02/2019 The Truman – Kansas City, MO
3/03/2019 Skyway Theater – Minneapolis, MN
3/04/2019 The Concord – Chicago, IL
3/07/2019 Playstation Theater – New York, NY

On Slayer’s “Leg Five: North America” Tour w/ Lamb Of God, Amon Amarth:

5/02/2019 Ak-Chin Amphitheatre – Phoenix, AZ

5/03/2019 Isleta Amphitheatre – Albuquerque, NM

5/05/2019 UTEP/Don Haskins Center – El Paso, TX

5/07/2019 Bert Ogden Arena – Edinburg, TX

5/08/2019 The Pavilion At Toyota Music Factory – Dallas, TX

5/10/2019 MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre – Tampa, FL

5/11/2019 Coral Sky Amphitheatre – West Palm Beach, FL

5/13/2019 Big Sandy Superstore Arena – Huntington, WV

5/14/2019 Merriweasther Post Pavilion – Columbia, MD

5/16/2019 Ruoff Home Mortgage Music Center – Noblesville, IN

5/17/2019 Providence Medical Center Amphitheatre – Bonner Springs, KS

5/19/2019 DTE Energy Music Center – Clarkston, MI

5/20/2019 Covel Centre – Youngstown, OH

5/22/2019 Canadian Tire Centre – Ottawa, ON

5/24/2019 BB&T Pavilion – Camden, NJ

5/25/2019 Xfinity Center – Mansfield, MA

 

CANNIBAL CORPSE will be touring in support of their acclaimed Red Before Black full-length released last year via Metal Blade Records. Many words come to mind when you hear the name CANNIBAL CORPSE, but only one truly defines the thirty-year death metal veterans: Unstoppable. Produced by Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal, Goatwhore), Red Before Black serves to not only reiterate this but to once more raise the stakes, making it abundantly clear who sets the standard when it comes to manifesting consistently compelling music that is as brutal as it is complex. “Throughout our career, we’ve tried to improve the precision of both our musical execution and our album production, while still maintaining full-on aggression. Red Before Black continues in that direction, but might go even further on the aggressive side of things. It’s definitely precise, but it has a rawness to it that goes beyond anything we’ve done recently,” asserts bassist Alex Webster. “We really worked super hard crafting these songs, practicing them, and getting them where we wanted to be more so than on any of our previous albums,” adds drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz. “And as Alex said, musically I think it’s the rawest sound we’ve had – and at the same time I think it’s our most focused, tightest, and catchiest record.”