Amon Amarth is a Viking-themed melodic death metal band from Tumba, Sweden founded in 1992. It is named after a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The name means "Mount Doom" in Sindarin, one of Tolkien's Elvish languages. The band was originally known as Scum, and released a single demo under that name in 1988 before changing their name to Amon Amarth in 1992.

Deeply rooted in melodic death metal with lyrics centred around Viking history and Norse mythology , Amon Amarth (formerly known as Scum ) formed in 1992 in Tumba, Sweden, a southern suburb of Stockholm . They began writing material with lots of melodies, harmonies and lyrics about Vikings and the norse Pantheon . In summer 1993 they entered Lagret Studio to record the Thor Arise demo, which would later on appear on the bonus disc of the album Versus the World . The band continued rehearsing and