Twilight of the Thunder God

The_Sideburns · Post by **The_Sideburns** » Mon September 22nd, 2008, 8:42 pm

What are everyone's thoughts on Amon Amarth's newest album? I've been listening to it nonstop since it leaked, and being a huge Amon Amarth fan, I worship at their feet once again. I seriously think they can do no wrong.

Thoughts?

Ecrypt · Post by **Ecrypt** » Mon September 22nd, 2008, 8:47 pm

The title track and video make me want to beat the shit out of huge snakes with a hammer! Viking epic!

ScreamBloodyGore · Post by **ScreamBloodyGore** » Mon September 22nd, 2008, 8:58 pm

Not as memorable as With Odin On Our Side, but still damned good.

GameFreac · Post by **GameFreac** » Mon September 22nd, 2008, 10:16 pm

ScreamBloodyGore wrote:Not as memorable as With Odin On Our Side, but still damned good.

Pretty much

Where is your God now? is AMAZING

Waiting for my cd to arrive in the mail

The_Sideburns · Post by **The_Sideburns** » Tue September 23rd, 2008, 1:55 pm

The title track, Where Is Your God?, Guardians of Asgaard and Embrace the Endless Ocean are the best songs I think. Quite a damn good release, I guess if I had to rank them now it would be:

With Oden On Our Side
Versus the World
Once Sent From A Golden Hall
Twilight Of The Thunder God
Fate of Norns
The Avenger
The Crusher

Post by **Metalfreak** » Tue September 23rd, 2008, 2:48 pm

it's a great album!

@The_Sideburns - yeah i agree with you there on the tracks!

Vhyle · Post by **Vhyle** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 10:51 am

It sucks.

ScreamBloodyGore · Post by **ScreamBloodyGore** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 12:02 pm

The more I listen to Embrace the Endless Ocean, the more obvious it becomes that it's amongst their best songs.

The_Sideburns · Post by **The_Sideburns** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 12:34 pm

Vhyle wrote:It sucks.

Mmm, yes good input.

Embrace of the Endless is such a good song, Johan Hegg stated in an interview it was crafted out of his sick morbid sense of humor. It's a song about a man who had been a slave/prisoner of war for many, many years and was finally freed. And he found his freedom on the ocean, but on his way home the ship sunk and he died. Damn, that's sad.

Vhyle · Post by **Vhyle** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 12:36 pm

It's boring and unimaginative. It's a new album, but yet it's nothing new. I can't get into it.

Post by **Brian** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 3:05 pm

Vhyle wrote:It's boring and unimaginative. It's a new album, but yet it's nothing new. I can't get into it.

Uhh...Amon Amarth has done the same thing on every single one of their albums. Nothing they've ever released is imaginative at all. It's the same formula over and over.

Still a damn good band, but I think the newest album has some pretty weak songwriting.

Vhyle · Post by **Vhyle** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 5:40 pm

I just can't dig it because I've heard it all before. Or it just seems like that.

Ecrypt · Post by **Ecrypt** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 10:42 pm

Vhyle wrote:I just can't dig it because I've heard it all before. Or it just seems like that.

ummm, so that amounts to about EVERY metal band thats released music since Slayer in the mid 80s. Care to share any bands that are completely original, that doesn't sound familiar in some way?

ScreamBloodyGore · Post by **ScreamBloodyGore** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 11:22 pm

Ecrypt wrote:
Vhyle wrote:I just can't dig it because I've heard it all before. Or it just seems like that.
ummm, so that amounts to about EVERY metal band thats released music since Slayer in the mid 80s. Care to share any bands that are completely original, that doesn't sound familiar in some way?

For the sake of playing devil's advocate: Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1

I realize most of you absolutely detest this album, but my money is on most of you being averse, tone deaf mental ward escapees.

Post by **Brian** » Wed September 24th, 2008, 11:31 pm

ScreamBloodyGore wrote:
Ecrypt wrote:
Vhyle wrote:I just can't dig it because I've heard it all before. Or it just seems like that.
ummm, so that amounts to about EVERY metal band thats released music since Slayer in the mid 80s. Care to share any bands that are completely original, that doesn't sound familiar in some way?
For the sake of playing devil's advocate: Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1

I realize most of you absolutely detest this album, but my money is on most of you being averse, tone deaf mental ward escapees.

I still think that album is awful. Not sure what the hype is.

Most of the "original" bands are overrated. Stuff like uneXpect, Vulture Industries, etc. Now I do like these bands, but they aren't godsends and they aren't going to save music. Just give me some Deeds of Flesh and I'm happy.

There are a few really cool bands though who have a unique take on metal though -- Semen Across Lips/Parabstruse, Contrastic, and Gonin-Ish come to mind.

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