AMON AMARTH Ride Sleipnir Into A Modern Western — 'Eight Legs Of Thunder' Is The Last Single Before 'The Allfather Awakens'

AMON AMARTH have released "Eight Legs Of Thunder", the third and final single from "The Allfather Awakens", out October 2 via Metal Blade Records — and the video takes the song somewhere nobody was expecting.

The track itself is exactly what the title promises. It is built around Sleipnir, Oden's eight-legged steed, and it moves like one: a galloping main riff, a chorus engineered to be shouted back by an arena, and no interest in slowing down for anybody. What surrounds it is stranger. Instead of another longship-and-shieldwall production, director Dariusz Szermanowicz set the clip in a dusty modern American West of cowboys, pickup trucks and open highway, with Sleipnir himself surfacing in a surreal dream sequence.

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"With 'Eight Legs Of Thunder', together with the band, we wanted to break the traditional metal music video mold once again," Szermanowicz said. "We fused the raw, dusty vibe of a modern western with the epic, dark mythology of Oden's eight-legged steed. It's a high-octane, cinematic ride packed with cowboy tension, raw action, and a touch of dark humor. We didn't just want to make a music video — we wanted to deliver a visual knockout."

It completes a three-part rollout that deliberately refused to repeat itself. "Upphaf", the band's first-ever acoustic recording, carried the hush of an oral history told under the Allfather's shadow. "Gjallarhorn" came back as a furious AMON AMARTH classic, built around Oden's sacrifice at Mímisbrunnr — one eye cast into the Well of Wisdom in exchange for foresight enough to shape the fate of gods and men alike. "Eight Legs Of Thunder" is the one that gallops.

Oden remains the through-line across the band's lyrics and artwork, as he has for most of their career, but "The Allfather Awakens" is not a concept record. The ten songs are self-contained, historically inspired tales of conflict and sacrifice for a greater good.

The method behind them changed. The album was built across two recording sessions months apart at producer Jacob Hansen's studio in Denmark, and for the first time the band wrote while they were still on the road rather than waiting for the touring cycle to end. The gap between sessions let them work each track in isolation — the stated aim was that every song should be treated as a single. The guitars moved backwards on purpose too, away from 5150 amps and back to Marshalls. Music came first and lyrics second, with the riffs setting the tone for the words.

Pre-order and pre-save "The Allfather Awakens" here.

"The Allfather Awakens" track listing:

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

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