Hey, thank you very much. So far the response has been really good for it, both from critics and fans.

That is in fact the whole idea. We wanted a title that described how we felt for this album, that it is in fact in our opinion our strongest album up to date and that the songs are our best so far. Already pretty early in the process we felt that the new songs came out really good and we felt we had wind in our sails, so to say, the gods with us. The title track With Oden On Our Side was also the very first song we completed.

Musically it's more diverse than for example fate of norns. We wanted to write some faster songs and when all the songs were done we had, in our opinion, the best mix. Some fast ones, some heavy ones and some in between. I would say that musically it is a mix of the whole career of Amon Amarth. Like a mix between all the previous albums, just progressed.

Some people do, but we don't care about that. This is our style, and is in fact the whole idea behind Amon Amarth. I don't see people complaining about for example Cannibal Corpse's lyrics or Bolt Thrower's.

In fact they do. Songs like Versus The World , For the stabwounds in our backs and Fate Of Norns are indeed written about the every day life, just in a form that describes it in a mythological way.

Hard to say really... but playing Wacken Open Air for the first time is one. Going to Island, Israel and Mexico was also special.

Bands; probably Judas Priest , Iron Maiden and At The Gates. Musicians; Adrian Erlandsson no doubt.

I listen mostly to metal, rock and harder stuff but I also like Apocalyptica and I have some film music like for Dracula , Gladiator and Kill Bill .

Yes I do no doubt. Sure it can be hard some times but in general I enjoy being on tour. Favorite beer... it varies but right now one favorite is definitely an English beer called Old Speckled Hen .

I think it is because our music wakes emotions. It covers everything from furious rage to really sad stories. There was someone once who told us what he said to his friends when they asked what kind of music amon amarth was, and he told them it's metal from the heart we liked that description.

Yes of course there are. We have religious freedom here so you're allowed to follow any belief you want. And in fact only less than 50% of the population is active Christians even if the country is Christian on the paper.

I doubt it, but who knows. We're not really into doing covers and in most cases the original band has done the song already better. Especially in the case with Bathory .

I personally didn't like the film very much. It's not really historically correct and Antonio Banderas is just terrible. But I guess some scenes are pretty cool. I wouldn't mind being part of a soundtrack for a cool film.

No hell no, I'd never want to be part of a movie like acting or anything like that. I absolutely hate recording videos, and even photo shoots are terrible. I just want to play music, preferably on stage.

It's more something useful to me, e-mail, finding facts, buying stuff. I don't really randomly browse and I do find it boring after a while to look at sites.

We're going to do a headliner European tour in November, then a north American tour supporting children of bodom in December. We're also rescheduling the Scandinavian shows we had to postpone for January. We'd love to come to play in Greece, I know we got an offer by some promoter some time ago to come down, but I don't know what happened to that. Hopefully next year.

Thank you for the questions and I hope you enjoy our new record, for those who haven't yet - go to your record store and pick it up! Cheers and see you hopefully sometime soon at a show!