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 One band of Swedes that keeps rolling Nov 09, 2009
Amon Amarth are everything a metal band should be. They're a big, hairy, intense, powerful band of vikings. They dominate the stage in live shows, and they manage to maintain enough melody to keep the songs distinct and interesting withough sacrificing a scrap of brutality or intensity.
"Twilight of the Thunder God" is yet another great entry in Amon Amarth's already strong catalogue. Great riffs, interesting lyrics, powerful delivery, and all the same great Norse-themed mayhem fans have come to expect. I just bought the album, and I've already listened through to it three times. Come to think of it, I may go put it on again right now.
In an era where many of the formerly great Swedish melo-death bands have sold out for popular success (I love In Flames, but seriously...) Amon Amarth continue to churn out some of the highest caliber material the genre has ever seen. A+
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The best Asatru band Sep 29, 2009
Amon Amarth is one of the best representations of Asatru world view and religion. They play a religious type of music motivated by pagan religion Asatru. Like Johann Sebastian Bach, who was moved by Christianity, Amon Amarth create timeless music under the influence of Asatru. An organization of Asatru people, called Asatru Folk Assembly, says that Asatru is an expression of the native, pre-Christian spirituality of Europe. More specifically, it is the way by which the Germanic peoples have traditionally related to the Divine and to the world around them. Asatru people do not need salvation. All they need is the freedom to face their destiny with courage and honor. Asatru believes are connected to their ancestors. The ancestors are a part of Asatru people living now. Among important principles, Asatru honor the Holy Powers under the names given them by their Germanic/Norse ancestors. Listen to Amon Amarth and get in touch with your ancestors!
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Can't expect less tfrom them Sep 08, 2009
Ammon Amarth CD / DVD was a great purchase at a great price. Guardians song is amazing.
Recommended..
 A Suprising Contrast Aug 21, 2009
After the truly remarkable 'With Oden on Our Side', I was eagerly awaiting the next offering from Amon Amarth. So after receiving the new album I was somewhat dumbfounded to find it of quite a different caliber indeed! In spite of several listens I just do not enjoy it at all, and find the songs uninteresting musically and thematically, they seem to drone along without significant development. While the bands' playing is good as usual, the addition of guest players seems not to have helped at all - in fact quite the reverse, with sound type changes that appear obviously out of character jumping out at you, disrupting the integrity of the songs. All up, a disappointing next album - get 'With Oden on Our Side' if new to this band.
 For Me, The Album Stumbles Aug 03, 2009
I love Amon Amarth. With Oden On Our Side is my favorite death metal album ever, and the rest of their back catalog is either pretty good or incredible.
For me, though, Twilight just wasn't as good as I was hoping it would be, and boy did I hope. I really, REALLY wanted to say this is a good album, but it just did not capture the same feel and intensity that the rest of the band's work did.
The album starts off great. The title track is easily on par with, if not better than, the best of the band's music. It's in your face, loud, and just works, telling the tale of Thor's final battle during Ragnarok. Then of course there's Roope's solo. I only don't like its inclusion because it causes the sound to change when they play it live, but that's a small thing that can be overlooked, and it's also not to say it's a great solo, because it is. I saw them play it, and it was still a great set opener.
But then comes "Free Will Sacrifice" and already the album's power, quality, greatness, etc. begin to diminish. Compared to the song that came before it, "Free Will" sounds remarkably weak. It reminds me of how "Where Death Seems To Dwell" seemed a rather weak second track on Fate of Norns, especially coming right after the brilliant song that is "An Ancient Sign of Coming Storm."
"Guardians of Asgaard" has become quite the fan favorite these days. I feel that this song is also weak as a whole, but it has an excellent chorus and solo (nice, soft, and slow, but it works). The chorus is probably one of their best but the rest of the song feels too slow and generic. I really, REALLY wish that they could've done the rest of it so much better than it actually is.
"Where Is Your God?" is one of my favorites on the album. The gallop beat is awesome and reminds me of an army of vikings on horseback in battle against their enemies. It's not another "Death in Fire" or "Pursuit of Vikings," but for what it's worth it's a really good song.
About the only other songs I really enjoyed were "The Hero" and "Embrace Of The Endless Ocean." The latter feels like an appropriate closer. It really reminds me of the closer on their last album, "Prediction of Warfare," and also "Fate of Norns."
"The Hero" sounds almost ballad-like and rather soft for the Norsemen, but it truly captures the feeling of what a warrior/soldier/etc. feels and endures during their lives. How can one truly believe these people never feel a sort of pain or guilt for people they kill in war? This song is about one such man, who calls himself "an evil man" for killing as he did, yet the title implies everyone else thinks he is a hero and he is about to lose their lives for their well being.
All the other songs, though, feel like a mess, especially compared to their other albums. Many others will enjoy it (it's obvious this point has already been proven judging by both the star rating this album currently holds and that a user poll on AOL Radio listed this album as one of the top 10 death metal albums of all time) and if you like Amon Amarth's other stuff or just like death metal as a whole, give the album a try.
There's enough here to satisfy new fans to get them ready for the band's earlier material, so it's also a great place for listeners to start. If you like this one, try one of the three albums that came before this one, With Oden On Our Side, Fate Of Norns, or Versus The World, then continue backwards from there. If you like the brutal viking metal end of this, I also recommend Borknagar, Enslaved, Immortal, early Satyricon, and Bathory (Blood Fire Death, Hammerheart, Blood On Ice, and their two Nordland albums). For simply the pagan viking genre overall, try Falkenbach (about half of their songs also fit the brutal category above), Tyr, Ensiferum, Leaves' Eyes, 3 Inches of Blood, and Therion (particularly their Secret of the Runes and Gothic Kabbalah albums).
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