The Crusher is the third full-length studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Swedish death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Amon Amarth

Amon Amarth

Amon Amarth is a Swedish viking metal band from Tumba, Sweden founded in 1992, and takes its name from the Sindarin translation of Mount Doom, a location in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. The band comprises vocalist Johan Hegg, guitarists Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg, bassist Ted Lundström...

. It was released on May 8, 2001 through Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

. The album was also released on the Double LP and Picture LP versions on June 29, 2007 which were hand-counted and limited to only 500 copies. A deluxe edition was released in 2009 that featured the album remastered by Jens Bogren

Jens Bogren

Jens Peter Daniel Bogren is a record producer, mixer and recording engineer who has worked on albums by Opeth, Katatonia, Soilwork, God Forbid, Iron Mask, Amon Amarth, and Symphony X, amongst others...

, and a bonus CD of the original album played live in its entirety in Bochum, Germany.

Track listing

Band members

• Fredrik Andersson – drums
  Drum kit
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• Olavi Mikkonen – guitar
  Electric guitar
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• Johan Hegg – vocals
  Singing
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• Johan Söderberg – guitar
• Ted Lundström – bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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Other

• Engineered by Lars Szöke and mixed by Peter Tägtgren
  Peter Tägtgren
  Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member....
  
  
• Mastered at Cuttingroom by Peter In the Betou
• Bonus track "Eyes of Horror" recorded at Das Boot studio
• Cover by Tom Thiel and Thomas Everhard
• Layout by Thomas Everhard

Release history

Date	Release
May 8, 2001	Original
August 29, 2009	Reissue