WHEN AMON AMARTH SET SAIL

WE MOST RECENTLY had Amon Amarth’s Johan Hegg on the cover as a warrior king lording it up on his throne, but 12 years ago this month we had the Swedish metal legends on our cover for the very first time. The shoot, depicting the band coming ashore from a boat on a storm-battered seafront, mighty blades in hand, looked like it could have been taken straight out of a Vikings poster. Just don’t tell anyone we actually shot it with a dinghy on the exotic banks of, um, Putney. Who says metal can’t be glamorous…?