Viking melo-death icons Amon Amarth have returned with a brand new single “Gjallarhorn.” The track serves as a follow-up to their previous single “Upphaf” which saw the band take an acoustic turn within their sound. The two songs are taken from the group’s forthcoming thirteenth studio album The Allfather Awakens which is set to arrive on October 2 via Metal Blade Records. The LP will follow The Great Heathen Army which was released back in 2022.

Speaking on the album’s production, guitarist Olavi Mikkonen offered, “We worked on one song at a time and made each song as good as possible. 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 band just finished up their co-headlining spring tour with fellow metallers Dethklok earlier this year. Amon Amarth also joined Pantera on their North American summer tour in 2025. The group will be hitting the road once again in the fall, kicking the trek off with a show at the O2 Apollo in Manchester, UK on October 9. They will also be stopping off in London, Paris, Stockholm, Helsinki, Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Milan, Zurich, Barcelona and more. The tour is set to come to an end on November 15 with a concert at Sala Tejo in Lisbon, Portugal.

The Allfather Awakens Tracklist

01. Gjallarhorn
02. Eight Legs of Thunder
03. Kvasir’s Blood
04. We Rule the Waves
05. Upphaf
06. Die With a War Cry
07. Raven God
08. The Allfather Awakes
09. Oden’s Hunt
10. Ascending Like an Eagle

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