Christopher Amott
Christopher Amott (born 23 November 1977 in Halmstad, Sweden) is a musician who
began learning at 14. He co‑founded Arch Enemy, contributing to albums such as
Black Earth (1996), Stigmata (1998), Wages of Sin (2001), and Doomsday Machine
(2005). He left in 2005, rejoined in 2007, and departed again in 2012. Parallel
to Arch Enemy, he founded Armageddon, issuing Crossing the Rubicon (1997) and
Captivity & Devourment (2015). Amott released solo albums Follow Your Heart
(2010) and Impulses (2012). In 2017, he began supporting Dark Tranquillity as a
guitarist before leaving in 2023.
