Leaving little time for fans to recover following the release of ’Raven’s Flight’, Swedish death metallers Amon Amarth charge towards to release of their thirteenth studio album at full force with the release of their second single entitled ‘Crack the Sky’.

Recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood California with producer Jay Ruston of Anthrax, Steel Panther, Uriah Heep and Stone Sour ‘Berserker’ is set for release on the 3rd of May. In speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist and frontman Johan Hegg commented that ‘The previous album was a concept album, but we didn't want to get into a situation where every album has to be a concept record, so this is different … We wanted to step away from that and look at being a little bit more diverse, with the lyrics and everything else. I got ideas from lots of different things, from history stuff and mythological sources. Sometimes you just get something in your head and there doesn't have to be a bigger meaning behind it — sometimes it's just a great metal lyric that fits with a great metal song. And these are fucking great metal songs’.

Continuing, ‘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’.

Be sure to catch the release on the 3rd of May and check out the video for ‘Crack the Sky’ below.