What is The Avenger (album)?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox Album | name = The Avenger | type = studio | artist = [[Amon Amarth (band)|Amon Amarth]] | cover = | released = September 2, 1999 | recorded = March 1999 at [[The Abyss (recording studio)|The Abyss]] in Pärlby | genre = [[Melodic death metal]] | length = 36:12 | language = [[English language|English]] | label = [[Metal Blade Records|Metal Blade]] | producer = [[Peter Tägtgren]] | Reviews = | prev_title = [[Once Sent from the Golden Hall]] | prev_year = 1998 | next_title = [[The Crusher (album)|The Crusher]] | next_year = 2001 }} '''''The Avenger''''' was the second full-length album by the [[Death Metal]] band [[Amon Amarth]]. It was released by [[Metal Blade Records]] on September 2, 1999. It was the first album to feature the guitarist Johan Söderberg and the drummer Fredrik Andersson.<ref>Garry Sharpe-Young, ''Metal: The Definitive Guide : Heavy, NWOBH, Progressive, Thrash, Death, Black, Gothic, Doom, Nu'' (London, England: Jawbone Press, 2007), p. 357</ref> The [[digipak]] version contained a re-recording of their first demo Thor Arise. It was first released in [[LP]] format, but was then re-released by Metal Blade Records in 2005. ==Quote== Amon Amarth said, {{cquote|Any references made to implicate that there are cover bands out there that really sucks {{sic}} found in this recording are purely intentional.}} It was the result of a short-lived [[feud]] with [[HammerFall]]. ==Track List== {{Track listing | total_length = 36:12 | title1 = Bleed for Ancient Gods | length1 = 4:31 | title2 = The Last with Pagan Blood | length2 = 5:39 | title3 = North Sea Storm | length3 = 4:56 | title4 = Avenger | length4 = 7:11 | title5 = God, His Son and Holy Whore | length5 = 4:00 | title6 = Metalwrath | length6 = 3:50 | title7 = Legend of a Banished Man | length7 = 6:05 }} {{Track listing | headline = Digipak Bonus Track | title8 = Thor Arise | length8 = 5:07 | note8