Sure, you get some typical Amon Amarth melodies and a few solos thrown in, but not as many as I would like. Unfortunately nothing else really stands out. I kind of miss when he was go a little higher, but that's more of a nitpick than anything. Johan Hegg sounds decent here with his deeper growls than high screams. What sort of makes up for the lack of song writing are the instrumentals. It's really too bad no other song has a solid tale like that. This could have been placed on "The Avenger". It's a very sad song that is pure Amon Amarth. He was freed and then he will be killed before he could even get there. Then a storm comes and he realizes that he won't be heading home. He recalls all the things he missed from home since he's been away. It's about a slave that was freed and is heading home. That song is so simple and it reminded me of a way better time where Amon Amarth could write solid songs. This is still evident on the title track and the fantastic finale, "Embrace of the Endless Ocean". One of the sole things I loved about Amon Amarth is the way they told a story. What happens? Beats me, beats Amon Amarth. You know how the song concludes? That's it. Midgaard is on fire and Heimdal sounds this battle horn so Valkyries can assist. Okay, so there is no where left to run and the ground quakes. Their faces are pale and are yelling out in random tongues because they're dead. He has a fucking army of zombies behind him heading towards Midgaard. In "Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags" you have this guy called Lopt, the Treacherous. At least in the title track Thor accomplishes something. There is no conclusion for each individual story. "Tattered Banners and Bloody Flags" has a decent enough story only for it to end midway through the song. Most songs stop trying to tell stories and just repeat the same chorus until the song ends. If we just talk about the lyric structure, then it's exactly what you get with any other paint-by-numbers melodeath. "Twilight of the Thunder God" is not a bad album, but compared to their past work it doesn't even come close. With that being said, the rest of the album is pretty soulless. It's one of the few songs I pit to when I see Amon Amarth in concert. I jammed it back in the day and it still holds up now. An amazingly mediocre album that sounds like it was made by an idea of what Amon Amarth is instead of what they could be.įor starters, the title track is really great. Two years later they create "Twilight of the Thundergod". It was a great album for them and showed an upswing on what Amon Amarth was capable of. The band even incorporated solos back into their music. They had songs that broke typical song structure and just told stories. That album was a combination of what made Amon Amarth popular at the start of their career and what was popular at the time for mainstream metal. I get "With Oden On Our Side" would be a hard album to follow up to. Top Software Keywords Show more Show lessĪutoWikiBrowser, sometimes abbreviated to AWB, is a semi- automated MediaWiki editor for Microsoft Windows Vista/7/8/10 (AWB also functions reasonably well under Wine on Linux but this is not officially supported) designed to.
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