Amon Amarth Twilight Of The Thunder God Is No Epic New Record..But Still Very Cool!
October 1, 2008 by Scott
If you have already read any other reviews on Amon Amarth’s new record Twilight Of The Thunder God then you know what they are saying. It’s nothing really new or different from their last cd, With Oden On Our Side. It’s just another Amon Amarth album. It’s like a continuation of With Oden’. It’s heavy, filled with great metal rhythms and riffs, typical Amon Amarth solos and lyrics about Viking stuff. The vocals sound a bit deeper and grittier than their last, sort of the way they sound in Fate Of Norns but much more clear and not drowned out by the rest of the music.
The cd comes with a bonus DVD of Amon Amarth playing live at the Summer Breeze festival 2007 that’s pretty cool. The inner sleeve has the lyrics written in the usual font and a group picture of them standing there…with their arms folded. The usual. It’s obvious that they aren’t trying to re-invent their sound or anything. They are just trying to write and perform cool songs that they know their fans will enjoy.
If you like With Oden On Our Side then you’re sure to like Twilight Of The Thunder God. It’s another Amon Amarth album that makes you want to strap on big leather wrist-bands, tear your shirt off, prop your foot up on something, shake your fist, sing along, pillage a village, rape some peasant women, and kill any opposing man. Well maybe not the last three, but you can’t as for much more than that from these guys!
very good album, been getting most of my attention of all this weeks new releases. which suprised me cause i was lookin forward to the new in this moment which turned out to be pretty lame.
I can’t get into maria brinks voice. I say that now, but I couldn’t get in to Angela Gassow before either and I’m diggin Rise Of The Tyrant. Maybe I’ll try it out again some time.
I have enjoyed what I have heard from the album…I give it super props for having awesome cover art!!
these guys no how to make a nice pit!
the problem is that beautiful tragedy was actually a pretty good album where she used a wide range of vocals. the dream just falls into hard rock and just has clean vocals for the bulk of the album. it’s just a big change from the last one, might just take me a while to settle into it.
I haven’t heard anything from Dreams and I don’t think I would enjoy more of her singing to be honest.
I was going to mention something about how cool the cover art was. That would look awesome on a vinyl sleeve.