Amon Amarth - The Allfather Awakens (CD)

Six-Panel Digipak CD With 20-Page Booklet

This is the standard CD of The Allfather Awakens, which Metal Blade Records issued in the US and Europe as a six-panel digipak with a 20-page booklet. It holds the ten-song album with no bonus material: the live recordings from Summer Breeze 2024 belong to the European two-disc deluxe edition, and the Japanese jewel case adds two live tracks of its own.

The Allfather Awakens is the Swedish band's 13th album since their 1998 debut, Once Sent from the Golden Hall, and the follow-up to The Great Heathen Army, which reached No. 1 on the German albums chart in 2022. It was recorded in two sessions months apart at producer Jacob Hansen's studio in Denmark, the first in spring 2025 and the last in March 2026, from songs written on tour rather than after it.

Guitarist Olavi Mikkonen has described the method: "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... Only then did we start on the next one." For the guitar sound, the band moved away from 5150 amplifiers and back to Marshalls.

Tracklist

1. Gjallarhorn
2. Eight Legs of Thunder
3. Kvasir's Blood
4. We Rule the Waves
5. Upphaf
6. Die With a War Cry
7. Raven God
8. The Allfather Awakes
9. Oden's Hunt
10. Ascending Like an Eagle