Music Review: Amon Amarth-With Oden On Our Side
Tracklisting:
- Valhall Awaits Me
- Runes to My Memory
- Asator
- Hermods Ride to Hel-Lokes Treachery Part 1
- Gods of War Arise
- With Oden On Our Side
- Cry of the Black Birds
- Under the Northern Star
- Prediction of Warfare
Once again I sound like a record but 2006 really has been the year for veteran metal bands to shine, and you can now add Amon Amarth to the list. From the first note of Valhall Awaits Me, I knew right away that this album was something special. The guys came in to this album more hungry sounding than ever, Johan’s growls are at their best the pacing is great, great guitar work (Asator comes to mind) just an all around great performance by a very dependable band.
I mentioned the pacing of the album, one of the best parts of the disc in my eyes is the build. Valhall and Runes start the album off slow (not in a bad way) and with each track you can hear the build like riding a rollercoaster up a hill. Asator takes you even higher, ironically Hermods Ride to Hel takes you down the hill as you ascend the last few rungs. The pacing continues until slowing back down with Cry of the Black Birds and Under the Northern Star before bringing you home Prediction of Warfare.
If you’ve never heard Amon Amarth, go out and get With Oden On Our Side and support real metal and guys who deserve more recognition than they get.
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This is a great album, the vocals are very clear and the music is ungodly good.
This a random post to comment on, but fuck it, I’ll join the convo:
Amon Amarth licks testicles. hairy sweaty testicles. If you like Amon Amarth, you are either a viking or gay.
For the record, the score of this album was four beers, for some reason some of the stuff that got transferred lost the scores.
Also
Vikings > Winston = gay vikings
dude that is so not funny at all
for the record, I actually listened to Amon Amarth after insulting them for no reason, and I have to say they are slightly bad ass.
slightly they rock harder than pdiddy but they are not the best ill give you that much six feet under rules!!!!!!
Gay vikings > Six feet under
Runes to my Memory changed my life man.
nothing to say to you any more winston you have hurt the honor of odin and now you are shund from asgard and the hall of valhala you ass!!!!!
Umm… if you fold it this way it’s a swan
Geez, I hate looking at old reviews, they seem so shitty in retrospect. This album is badass and deserves a more in depth review.
The comment section of this review rules though. We should make our official random statement section.
Dude the guy on the far left looks like he has a pretty gnarly cliffhanger there
That buger is viking as fuck.
1rst Winston shows pics of Pink swans then he once again proclaims his love for me on the phone. Dude I’m getting worried.
Homosexuality is viking as fuck. It rapes and pillages like a motherfucker.
You forgot the BURN!!!
This album rocked, i had a sweet time listening to it.
why is everyone but the guy on the left scowling?
Because that is what you do when you are a viking.
well you would too when you have to rape pillage plunder and burn!! that does not allow a lot of time to nit a sweater or have a hot soak in a tub.
Exactly right, hence the reason for the scowl. Vikings don’t have time for comfort.
no but we do have time to put make-um WAR paint yea we have time to put on War Paint not make-up. yea and file our nai..teeth yea so we look like demons thats the tickit. god i just want to dance to some tech-no!
I don’t know why, but that cracked me the fuck up.
I gotta stop laughing though. Vikings don’t laugh.
no we scowl at every thing except death so unless you are going to laugh to death you need to stop or split some skull with your ax!!!
Heh….
YES THAT IS MINE!!!! THATS ME I SWEAR!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAH…wait for it … HA HA HAaa.. all done.
Here’s another one:
Vikings were pagans who received a much deserved death at the hands of good moral god fearing people.
What history book are you reading you zelot? the one John yunger or smith or fuck what ever his name was? the “christians” as you would refer to them did not have wepons and were raped plundered and burned for there gold crosses chalicas and such. the monks put up no fight they were slaughtered and were was there god then? on a smoke break thats where. and yes they were pagans. but truth be told they were the easeast to convert. eric and his son leef were the head men at that time adn they put the “christian” to the test. a monk was selected or some saint dont care wich, to walk through the fir pits and there seer shaiman medicain what have you had to do the same. the christian god was not on break then he was at his station answering all prayers and the christian was un scaved while the shaiman was burned badly. thus they saw that the one god was mightyer than ODIN, and converted. now with that said it did not change there methods of life they still went about the world doing there vicous viking thing and still praying to there gods as the catholics do to saints just recognising yawea or jahova orgod lord and he who is i am as a more powerful god they soon completly converted and became like you guys but most of them were saxons by that time the ones farther north were a little harder to convert but they soon did. now that all of the history teaching is out of the way, Let me say just a few words to those who think that the mormons are some sort of super christian force. In the tabernackel in salt lake city, there is a gaint babtisnal basin made of gold and silver above this is a GOLDEN BULL, the same thing the jews got in truble for with mossis they expect you to pay some ungodly amount of cash to get your loved ones who are dead into heaven yes pay for there way, and they also have a very strict code as to what they can eat and drink. that shit just dont fly with a son of the bitch like me i dated a mormon she was loose. but hey your jesus will forgive all that shit if i accept him right? well let me say a prayer, HAIL MARY FULL OF SHIT THE FRUIT FROM YOUR WOMB IS ROTTEN!! think god still loves me now?
by the way winston that one is great as well sorry to go off like that just cant stand a bible thumping soul sucking holyer than thow kind of bullshit!!!!
Damn dude… that will go down in history as the angriest rant in the history of the internet.
that was brutal and very viking but not the angryest just on the bar my home away from home
I love how a review that is almost two years old jumped from like 1 comment to 32.
Only @ TMB
33 now hahahah we are viking as fuck brutal metal gods of the commints
He said commints, we should have those.
Here @TMB if you leave a comment we will mail you a mint Like a after comment mint.
really you owe me like a million of them. we have no time for spellcheck yar
Disclaimer: TMB will not be mailing out any mints. Any reference to the mailing of mints is to be taken as a joke. Please don’t sue us.
Besides, Vikings don’t have time for fresh breath.
Too true