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Arch Enemy toured worldwide in support of Wages of Sin, and Amott did not return to his Spiritual Beggars project until late 2002, releasing On Fire, again on Music for Nations. Arch Enemy released Wages of Sin in 2001, and propelled by the new frontwoman, the band achieved new worldwide success. Amott went on to release Ad Astra with Spiritual Beggars in 2000, then returned to Arch Enemy, and recruited amateur German vocalist Angela Gossow to replace Liiva in 2000. Later the same year Amott also contributed guitars to the Candlemass album Dactylis Glomerata.Īmott with Spiritual Beggars at the Rockharz Open Air 2016 in GermanyĪrch Enemy returned in 1999 with Burning Bridges and Burning Japan Live 1999 which would prove to be Johan Liiva's last recording with the band. The album would prove to be a critical success, and Arch Enemy toured for the better part of the year. In April the same year, Arch Enemy returned with Stigmata, their first album released outside Japan, now on Century Media records.

#Christopher amott full

Amott decided to put a full band together, recruiting drummer Peter Wildoer ( Darkane), and bassist Martin Bengtsson.Īfter the Japanese tour, Amott returned to Spiritual Beggars and released Mantra III early in 1998, now featuring Per Wiberg on keyboards. Featuring then session drummer Daniel Erlandsson, the band's first album Black Earth was originally intended to be a one-off project, but the album's first single, ' Bury Me An Angel' received unexpected airplay on Japan's MTV Rocks! program, and in 1997 Arch Enemy was signed by major Japanese label Toy's Factory, and invited to tour Japan. Amott contacted original Carnage vocalist Johan Liiva, as well as his younger brother Christopher Amott, who was attending music school at the time, and put together Arch Enemy. Still heavily into extreme metal, Amott formed a new melodic death metal project in the same vein as Carcass, whose Heartwork album was now considered a death metal masterpiece. The band released their debut album Spiritual Beggars in 1994, which led to a European record deal with Music for Nations, who released Another Way to Shine in 1996. The band would go on to release their highest selling album, Heartwork (Columbia/Sony), in 1993, helping to define what is now known as melodic death metal.Īmott left Carcass in 1993, and decided to form a classic rock influenced band, Spiritual Beggars. Soon afterwards, Amott was recruited by Carcass in 1990, and released the seminal album Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious in 1991.

Plagued by constant lineup changes, Carnage eventually recorded their only album Dark Recollections with Amott as the sole original member, but by the time the album came out on Necrosis records in 1990, the band was broken up. He has stated in guitar magazines that he has a preference for pentatonics.Īmott co-formed the death metal band Carnage in 1988 with singer Johan Liiva, and released two widely traded cassette demos, gaining instant underground interest. Amott soon went to a new level with his playing and became influenced by players such as Tony Iommi, Frank Marino, Michael Schenker, Kerry King, Dave Mustaine, Ritchie Blackmore, Glenn Tipton, Adrian Smith, and Uli Jon Roth.

Īmott began playing guitar as a young teenager, learning to play by copying hardcore punk and heavy metal out of his record collection. Soon after his birth the family moved to England where Amott lived the first five years of his life, after which they moved back to Sweden. Biography Amott performing with Arch Enemy in 2010Īmott was born in Halmstad, Sweden, to a British father and Swedish mother. 74 out of 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World. He is the older brother of Christopher Amott.Īmott was ranked No.

Michael Amott (born 28 July 1969) is a Swedish guitarist, founding member of the metal bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars and Carnage, as well as a former member of Carcass.