Go behind the scenes with Amon Amarth as they film Berserker video trilogy

By Scott Munro
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Amon Amarth give a glimpse into what went into creating their videos for Raven’s Flight, Crack The Sky and Mjolner, Hammer Of Thor

Amon Amarth (opens in new tab) have shared a making-of video showing how their Berserker video trilogy was created.

The band launched promos for Raven’s Flight (opens in new tab), Crack The Sky (opens in new tab) and Mjolner, Hammer Of Thor (opens in new tab), with the Swedish outfit joined by a host of extras on set, along with Josh Barnett as The Berserker, Erick Rowan as Thor, Tess Kielhammer as Demon Boss, Shanie Rusth as Shield Maiden and Canadian WWE legend Viktor, who plays the Demon Henchman.

Watch the behind-the-scenes video below.

Speaking about Berserker, the follow-up to 2016’s Jomsviking, Amon Amarth frontman Johan Hegg said: “For me, this is Amon Amarth 2.0. I think what we've done here is give ourselves the space to explore other parts of our musicality and who we are as a band. 

“If you're content with where you're at, what's the point of continuing? We always want to come up with new ideas and find new ways of doing things and to create bigger and better shows and really try to improve every aspect of what the band is. 

“We want to try to keep growing and to do this for as long as we have the possibility to do so, because this is the best fucking job in the world.”

Amon Amarth are currently on tour across Europe in support of their latest album (opens in new tab) and will return to the the US and Canada for further dates later in the year.

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Amon Amarth: Berserker (opens in new tab)
Amon Amarth released Berserker – the follow-up to 2016's Jomsviking – in May. The album features the singles Raven's Flight, Crack The Sky and Mjolner, Hammer Of Thor.

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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.