How has the working relationship with Metal Blade been throughout the years, Johan?
Terrific! We’ve really had their support from day one and they really show that they believe in the band and they believe in the potential of the band. They’ve really done a lot for us through the years. So, we’ve had a great relationship with them. The band formed back in 1992 but you originally met Olavi while on vacation in Kos, Greece, and he and your friend asked you to join their band SCUM, which later became AMON AMARTH. Did the early days of the band sound like the AMON AMARTH we know now? Well, the basics were there, but I guess by the time I came into the band we started to change into bringing more melodies and harmonies into the whole song structures and all that – experimenting more with that. It took us a couple of years to really get the hang of it but I feel we had something going that was pretty different from a lot of other bands in Sweden at that time. I have to ask this – how did you come up with the name AMON AMARTH and what exactly does it mean? (Laughs) That must
