Amaranthe Talk About Passion, Folk Instruments, Sports, And Butter

We recently had the honor of sitting down to chat with Elize Ryd and Olof Mörck of Sweden’s rising heavy metal/pop sensation, Amaranthe. The band has just released Breaking Point – B-Sides 2011-2015, which contains a number of acoustic renditions of existing songs and a couple of new ones for fans to devour. It was quite the adventure to get to the venue to conduct the interview, what with massive road construction projects at every turn and lines of cars filling the street. We were late, but we made it, and these sweet people couldn’t be more understanding. When we finally got onto Amaranthe’s tour bus, we were greeted by the tour manager, and the next face we saw was Elize’s, who is infinitely more beautiful in person, and after talking to her she’s as sweet as can be. Olaf ain’t half bad either.