After toasting up a campfire-scented acoustic anthem earlier in the summer, Amon Amarth are cranking things back up to announce the arrival of their next epic album, The Allfather Awakens. To be clear, the Viking-metal mainstays are raising their horns up high with new single “Gjallarhorn.”
The latest thunder-cracking Amon Amarth song, which is the opener on the upcoming album, parts the skies with classic guitarmonizing, a galloping pace and deep-chanted “whoas.” Above all that, vocalist Johan Hegg casts a grisly tale about Oden, the Norse god and titular “Allfather” described in a statement as “a deity of war, wisdom, death, magic, and poetry.”
The song follows the recent acoustic number “Upphaf” and last year’s “We Rule the Waves” single. All three are now confirmed to be a part of the upcoming, 10-song The Allfather Awakens. While the album is said to further explore the mythology of Oden — a longtime focus of the Swedish group — it’s added that Amon Amarth’s 13th full-length, which follows 2022’s The Great Heathen Army, is not a concept record, but rather “a collection of historically inspired epic tales of conflict and sacrifice for a greater good.”
The video for “Gjallarhorn,” which you’ll find above, is a retelling of Oden’s search for wisdom, a feat that found him gouging out his own eye “in exchange for cosmic insight and foresight that would shape the fate of gods and men alike.”
The album was put together during two sessions at producer Jacob Hansen’s studio in Denmark — a spring 2025 session and the concluding recordings in March of this year.
“We worked on one song at a time and made each song as good as possible,” guitarist Olavi Mikkonen confirms. “Then we recorded one song at a time until each track was totally finished–drums, guitars, and vocals. Only then did we start on the next one.”
The Allfather Awakens enters metaldom’s consciousness October 2nd via Metal Blade. That’s the cover art and tracklisting down below.
As previously reported, Amon Amarth have a number of upcoming shows on the horizon across Europe. It’s now added that the group will soon bring “entirely new production inspired by Oden’s legendary Golden Hall” to the stage.
It’s as-yet unclear when the band will make their return to North America. That said, their international show schedule is here.
The Allfather Awakens tracklisting:
Gjallarhorn
Eight Legs of Thunder
Kvasir’s Blood
We Rule the Waves
Upphaf
Die With a War Cry
Raven God
The Allfather Awakes
Oden’s Hunt
Ascending Like an Eagle