The bonus edition of the album included their earlier demos. Versus The World, their 4th studio album, was released on 18 November 2002. In April 2002 the band toured Europe with Vomitory and in August performed at Wacken Open Air in front of 12,000 fans. It was held a year later later instead, but this time without Marduk. It was planned to be held in the United States, but was cancelled because of the September 11 attacks. They released The Crusher in 2001, and went on tour to support it with Marduk, Vader. With him in Spring 1999 the band recorded and released its second full-length, The Avenger. After the tour Martin Lopez quit to join Opeth and Fredrik Andersson (ex-A Canorous Quintet) came in. In June of 1998, Amon Amarth was about to go on tour with Deicide, Six Feet Under, Brutal Truth when guitarist Anders Hansson left and was replaced by Johan Soderberg. The album made Amon Amarth famous internationally. They then signed with Metal Blade Records and released their first album, Once Sent from the Golden Hall.

In 1994 another demo, The Arrival of the Fimbul Winter, was recorded and 1,000 copies were released. However, the band caught the attention of a lot of extreme metal fans. It was never released because it was low quality. They recorded their first demo, Thor Arise (1993), with Johan Hegg on vocals, Anders Hansson on guitar and Ted LundstrГ¶m on bass. Johan Hegg convinced the other members to come together again, and they formed Amon Amarth in 1992. Amon Amarth band was formed from the previous band, Scum, which was formed in 1988.

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