Amon Amarth, a band that never ceases to amaze the metal world with each new album. The latest release, ‘Twilight of the Thunder God’, certainly hits this metalhead's Viking spot and it's hard to find the words that express just how good this album really is. Many death metal bands  find it very hard to write a completely compelling album, they seem to fizzle out about half way through and most listeners seem to lose interest. Amon Amarth however seem to have spent a long time deciding where tracks were going to fit on this record and have refined their musical ability to create a wall of sound that hits you like a runaway train. 

One thing that did Strike me as odd here is that Amon Amarth are actually soloing a lot more than previously, rather than sticking to the heavy chug and topless windmilling they are best known for, they have branched out and are actually throwing a fair amount of shred into the mix as well. This seems to have added an extra depth to their music perhaps a fact best shown in opening track and album title ‘Twilight Of The Thunder God’, in which the solo could easily give Laiho and Loomis a run for their money. 

For a bands 7^th release it is certainly pretty magical, an album which makes you want to go out and rape and pillage your nearest town, then burn it to the ground just for good measure just because it makes you feel like a Viking warrior. So to try and explain how good this album really is as brutally as possible; This is an album that would probably be on repeat in Thor’s mighty stereo system with the great burly Viking god getting his mill on with Jesus Christ, leaving Buddha and the Tooth Fairy in the corner playing air guitar. That’s how awesome Twilight Of The Thunder God is, and if you call yourself a metalhead and don’t go and buy this album… there is seriously something wrong with you.