AMON AMARTH Frontman JOHAN HEGG - "North America Has Become A Bigger Market For Us Than Europe"
November 5, 2008, 16 years ago
Picture by Audrey Dujardin
Peter Atkinson at KNAC.com recently caught up with AMON AMARTH frontman Johan Hegg. Following is an excerpt from the interview:
KNAC.com: What is your best market, the states or Europe?
Hegg: "It's pretty even, but I think the previous album sold more in North America than in Europe, North America has become a bigger market for us than Europe. It's going to be very interesting to see where we end up with this one [ it sold 11,000 copies the first week out in America] that's part of the reason for starting the touring in the states, to support the album right away and give it an extra boost."
KNAC.com: It's pretty amazing that the Wrath of the Norsemen DVD went gold.
Hegg: "Well, you don't need to sell nearly as many DVDs to get that [50,000 units] as you do with an album [500,000], and we were helped by the fact that it was a three-disc set, and each disc counted toward the overall total. So we kind of cheated (laughs). But it's still super cool that it's gold. And from what I hear we're close to making it platinum. It's a good quality DVD, there's a lot of good material on it, but it's crazy too think that we actually sold gold, and it's even more crazy now that it might go platinum. We've already had it go platinum in Canada."
Go to this location for the complete interview.
