Amon Amarth to play 1st four albums live

AMON AMARTH will play four shows at Zeche in Bochum, Germany in late December under the name "Bloodshed Over Bochum". The band will play a different album in its entirety each night along with a "best-of" mix from "Fate Of Norns" (2004), "With Oden On Our Side" (2006) and the upcoming album.

The details are as follows:

Dec. 28 - "Once Sent From The Golden Hall" (1998)
Dec. 29 - "The Avenger" (1999)
Dec. 30 - "The Crusher" (2001)
Dec. 31 - "Versus The World" (2002)

The shows will also include:

* Meet-and-greet with the band
* Special merchandise sold at each show
* New Year's Eve Party on December 31

The band stated "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 four first full-length albums at Bochum in Germany, we were all up for it. This will be a once-in-a-lifetime 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 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 four 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!"

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Tags:  viking metal, Amon Amarth, Sweden, Oden, Germany

jason    June 26, 2008