Metal. Amon Amarth puts on a hell of a fucking show live. They played material exclusively from Vs. the World forward, but their new stuff translates very well to the live environment and it
. They opened with the first two from the new one and got the crowd going early. They're great sing along songs and we were all shouting the lyrics along. Especially "Runes to my Memory" totally kicked my ass, I couldn't even handle the awesomeness. I watched those two songs from stage level, then felt the need to go mingle down in the pit and watched the rest of the show from in front of the stage. This is pretty much what the setlist looked like in Denver, but pending time and considering that NYC is huge, you might get Thousand Years of Oppression too.
(Intro)
Valhall Awaits Me
Runes To My Memory
Death In Fire
Fate Of Norns
Asator
(Cry Intro)
Cry Of The Blackbirds
An Ancient Sign Of Coming Storm
The Pursuit Of Vikings
Asator really became one of my favorites after the show, such a great groove and it killed live. Everything sounded good, but Pursuit of Vikings was another highlight as they let us sing the last part of the song.
Johan gets the crowd involved pretty well, drinking mead on stage.
After the show we went backstage. That room the interview was in was TINY, but I suppose they don't spend much time in there anyway. We were all fucking exhausted after the show so we kept the interview somewhat concise
, but Olavi answered my questions pretty well and I should have it up on the site in a couple days. Had a cool little chat with Olavi and he said that the band was only able to quit their "real world" jobs this past year. They've been around a long time and are pretty popular so that was a little surprising, but cool that they can start to live off they're music a little more. I got all my booklets signed by everyone except Soderberg, who was strangely missing for the entire time period after the show. They have a lot of nice merchandise as well, picked up the "With Oden on Our Side" shirt, posed for some pictures and then went off to fetch my other friend. Nate took off (good idea), but we watched a couple COB songs before deciding that it was really gay and we then proceeded to leave to go eat at our normal after show sub sammitch place and had the best sub evAr.
Looking forward to reports from the NYC show now. Have fun!
