Lamassu Glory Bound

The official concert t-shirt for the legendary Swedish power metal band Lammasu "Glory Bound" concert tour is available now. Check out their hit song and then grab the t-shirt. • 100% combed and ring-spun cotton • Fabric weight: 4.2 oz (142 g/m2) • Pre-shrunk fabric • Shoulder-to-shoulder taping • Side-seamed • No encumbrance penalty • +2 to reaction rolls with Empyrean worshippers • -2 to reaction rolls with fans of Chthonic hip hop ABOUT LAMMASU Forged in the frostbitten catacombs beneath the ancient university of Uppsala in 2006, Lamassu rose from obscurity like a golden chimera carved from ice and lightning. Initially a trio of RPG-obsessed students who bonded over Advanced Heroquest and Manowar LPs, the band took its name from the mythical Assyrian creature, symbolizing protection, majesty, and unknowable badassery. By 2010, they had released their debut album, Oathbreaker’s Cry, an underground classic filled with 12-minute ballads about fallen kings, cursed rings, and domain-level warfare. Their sophomore effort, The Auran Throne (2012), was an homage to their favorite tabletop RPG, Adventurer Conqueror King System (ACKS), and featured guest narration by game designer Alexander Macris—credited cryptically as The Judge Eternal. It was 2015’s Dominion of Flame that lit the world afire, earning Lamassu the European Metal Union’s Best Concept Album award and a surprise nomination for Best Nordic Act at the MTV Viking Awards, where they lost to a blackened synth-pop group from Reykjavik and responded with a blistering 14-minute diss track, Snow Elves Die in Silence. In 2019, the band headlined the Siege of Sound Festival in Wacken, debuting their notorious "hex-crawl stage design," a 50-foot LED dungeon map that updated in real time based on the band’s stage positions. That same year, Drums of the Hollow Legion won a Grammis Award (Swedish Grammy) for Best Metal Performance, and their single Raise the Golem topped the Loudwire Nordic Charts for six weeks. Original vocalist Björn Kesselring departed the band in 2012 after a backstage incident involving a cursed d20, a bottle of aquavit, and an extremely literal reading of the ACKS Hijinks table. His final act on tour was a 45-minute improvised aria titled The Larcenist's Lament—still beloved by diehard fans. His replacement, Erik “Valefor” Thorsson, formerly of Runeblade, brought operatic fire and a six-octave scream dubbed by Kerrang! as “the battle-cry of a dying angel being reborn as a mech.” The band weathered further scandal in 2021 when it was revealed that bassist Freja Stormheart had been banned from four separate European Pathfinder tables for insisting that ACKS was “the one true system of mortal adjudication.” The band stood by her, issuing a now-famous tweet: “You don’t play ACKS. You build empires. Cry harder.” Their 2025 opus, Glory Bound, is a triumphant return to form, an 11-track concept album chronicling the fall and redemption of the demigod Lugal-Khazir as he wages war against the Hollow Courts of the Moon. Produced by Thorgard Volmir (of Dragonspine fame), the album features: “Wyrmroad to Power” (Top 10 in Germany) “Initiative and Fate” (a 19-minute ACKS tribute in 7/8 time) “Glory Bound” (winner of the Eurovision Metal Showcase, non-canonical) Currently rampaging across Europe and North America, Lamassu’s Glory Bound tour is part concert, part tabletop campaign. VIP attendees receive: A signed ACKS domain map A Lamassu-exclusive Judges’ Journal zine A “Roll for Initiative” dice set blessed by Swedish monks of questionable orthodoxy Every show ends with a D20 rolled live on stage—if it lands on a natural 1, the encore is replaced by a dramatic TPK-themed requiem. This has happened three times. Lamassu isn’t just a band. It’s a worldview.