"The Avenger" is the second studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth, released on 2 September 1999 through Metal Blade Records and Sony Music. It was the first album by the band to feature guitarist Johan Söderberg and drummer Fredrik Andersson, completing a line-up that remained stable until Andersson’s departure in 2015. The album was issued in multiple formats, including a digipak edition containing the बोनस track "Thor Arise", a re-recording of the title track from the band’s earlier demo "Thor Arise". A vinyl LP version was also released. In 2005, Metal Blade Records reissued the album as a limited picture LP edition of 500 hand-numbered copies. A deluxe edition followed in 2009, featuring a remastered version of the album and a bonus CD containing a live performance of the full album recorded in Bochum, Germany. The album included a printed statement by the band: "Any references made to implicate that there are cover bands out there that really sucks found in this recording are purely intentional." This remark has been interpreted as a response to a brief feud with HammerFall, as well as to criticism suggesting that the album’s style was overly derivative. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.