Amon Amarth Reject Viking Metal Label

12/05/2014
. (TeamRock Radio) Amon Amarth frontman Johan Hegg says his band's tag as a viking metal group makes no sense. The singer says he is fed up with the term and adds that it is only applied to them because of their lyrical content. By that logic, he says, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath are viking metal bands too.

Hegg recently wrapped up filming on new movie Northmen - A Viking Saga, in which he plays a viking warrior called Valli. And Amon Amarth sing about viking culture and even feature images of the warriors on their artwork - but still Hegg would rather not be branded a viking metal band.

He tells Metalinside: "It's weird to label a band after the lyrical content because, in that case, Iron Maiden is a viking metal band, Black Sabbath is a viking metal band, Led Zeppelin is a viking metal band.

"You can make the list very, very long. And we're nothing alike, musically. I think to make the label based on lyrics is taking the easy way out. Rather than describing what the audience can expect to hear, they just add add 'viking'. It's an easy way to do it." Read more here.

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