Does Any one like Amon Amarth I think its the best band in the fucking world

You sir have made a new friend, Amon Amarth was the biggest influence on the band Im in, and really opened my eyes to to Viking Metal

FYI:Their bad fucking ass in concert...

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Ok The rueles once send from the golden hall is one of the best albums I ever Herd....

yeah fuking awesome band, where death seems to dwell is an amazing song

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yeah, Amon Amarth "rueles"...

I'm A big fan of Amon Amarth also, I own all of their albums and every single one sounds fucking brilliant

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Do you have The arrival of the fimbul winter it was only Released in 1000 copies Cool if you have it...

They came to Iceland for a couple of shows earlier this month. It was great for me because I missed them last time they were here. They've gotta have the best frontman ever, he came on stage with a horn full of beer and he got us singing an Icelandic folk song. Good times!

Cool Are you from iceland amon amarth is pritty big there isen it?

They are a great band...I'd love to see them sometimes soon.

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theyre fucking awsome, gonna be seeing them in a few weeks with COB
cant wait, i have seen live footage and they own from that so seeing them in person is going to fucking kill

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I fucking love amon amarth. They got me into the whole viking metal vibe. I would love to see them and COB!!!

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amon amarth kick ass. coincidentaly i was listening to them even before i saw the thread name

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yeah they're great, i missed their show 3 weeks ago with COB though..

I own all y'all, I saw them a week ago, and got to high-five the vocalist.

im gonna see them and hopefully chat with johann on dec 10

demon im gonna at least see your ass there!

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you luck cunt! that's gonna be one great show.

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ahhhh you lucky bastards

how are you gonna manage that one?

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amon amarth are a totally awesome band, all of there stuff kicks ass, i really like the song "northsea storm" i rely wanna see them some time....

ive been reading their forums, since they are on first they always come out and stand at the merch booth

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awsome! they do this when COB is playing then? i doubt theyll be 'first' theres no way in hell trivium will play after them...

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To your first question, yes. Then on ur second comment, they did. I can bet you that you'll probably be able to meet him after the show, he was hanging out on the merch booth there.

EDIT: Oh wait, I thought you meant if they're doing this on this tour, I'm not sure if he's out there while COB is playing, but you'll probably see him after the show.

fuuuuuckkk i have to watched trivium then... i was thinking about coming a bit late and missing their set

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NO, AA is on first. sadly. ive read reports of several venues having AA start so early there arent even people inside yet. im going to get there at LEAST an hour early.

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Um, not like mainstream big but in the scene i suppose you could say they are very well liked and respected.


Pfft, had a chat with them


And yeah, they did stand at their merch booth before the show, even if they were the headline. Great guys.

I saw em' with GoatWhore, Vader, Kreator and Nile at the Art of Noise tour, fuckin awsome.....

WRATH HATE PAIN AND DEATH!!!

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well the palladium has them listed to play at 9 and everytime I have gone they never started b efore they said they would

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Come on, Amon Amarth isn't that great.

I agree, but they're definately not bad at all to watch live. Plenty of raw energy and shit. About the only song I really know from them is "Pursuit of Vikings", but they played awesome, they all did the synchronized-windmill-headbang just like I expected.

Yeah, AA aint the greatest in the world or anything but they're damn good party and live music. Especially with a front man like that! I was headbanging the whole couple of nights.

Pretty good, but I would prefer Ensiferum over the bands that are still together.

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For the sake of replying to a AA chat, might be worth your time to learn his name, but to save you some time, its Johann, Johann Hegg

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No, it won't be worth our time....

agreed.

ill still be there at 8. im not coming four hours to miss a single note

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I don't care what lovely people they are... how often can one band release the same album?? Verdit: Moderately interesting middle-tier band people spooge over too much.

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actually theres been slight evolution from album to album and massive evolution over all. you obviously havent listened critcally from album to album. compare fate of norns to once sent

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Ohh, FBS got pwnd...

yes but who will come back with the more wittingly funny comment? FBS of coarse

since AA is opening anyone know how long a set they get?

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lol 30 minutes. six songs. can see it on the aa forums

demon go to the merch booth show during trivium. i promise i wont bug you, im shy as hell anyways. would just like to say hello. and i hear trivium is very insistent that their whole crowd jump up and down, so im going to get the hell out of there

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fucking hell....
i hope this is there set (not in any real order)
death in fire
stabwounds
pursuit of vikings
valkyries ride
The Sound Of Eight Hooves
fate of nourns

ill make my way there, last time i was there though they had two of them (if not three?) and they were on oppsatie side of the building, go figure

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odd. the venue i go to just has one. i think ill be in the back, i dont want to be in any mosh pits or anything like that

ill be outside also before the show. ill be with a friend whos a hell of a lot taller than i am, og han forstår ikke norsk eller dansk :P

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så hvis vi treffe, skall vi snakke i norsk-dansk. hvis vi treffe AA vi MÅ snakket i norsk. kanskje vi kan gå `back stage` fordi av det

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"på grunn af det" er bedre ....

og ja, men jeg tror vi skal har den vanskelig tid prøver at forstår og hører over ...crowd noise

1-intro
2-An Ancient Sign Of A Coming Storm
3-Pursuit Of Viking
4-Releasing Surtur's fire
5-The Fate Of Norns
6-For The Stabwounds In Our Back
7-Death In Fire

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Ef þið ætlið að tala djöfulsins norsku eða dönsku tala ég bara íslensku. Brundkögglar.

awesome but all i understood was norwegian, danish, and icelandic

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at least we understand eachother

and your a spermbox otiz

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hrmm

you speak norwegian and danish but i just speak icelandic? something like that?

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When you have to spend hours of critical attention to an album to simply find any difference is dosen't note evolution. I'm not very big on them either. Saw them life at the Art of Noise tour and their preformance was a bit..ostentatious.

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he said

If you're gonna talk fucking norsk or dansk I'll just speak icelandic. Spermboxes.

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the differences arent hidden and you dont have to spend hours studying them. its fine that you two dont like AA , but its not that you insist they didnt evolve. they did, and they probably will continue to. song structure, lyrical structure, melody, recording methods, speed, all changes drastically from album to album

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How the fuck did you guys learn this shit? You are you using Babblefish? lol..I've taken french for years in elementary/junior high and I don't know shit.


"Je manger le pizza." - I eat pizza.

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Metal-Observer:

"Actually everything is on one level, no song fails – but no one really stands out either. It does have become a solid, very good disc.... It will hardly bother the fans because the band has stayed true to themselves after all. But let’s be honest, didn’t we all expect a thorough improvement secretly."

Lords of Metal:

"However, when comparing "Fate Of Norns" with their latest release "Versus The World", it is hard to decide which one of the two is better and it is hard to tell what the real differences are (apart from other songs of course). Amon Amarth embroiders once again on their success formula, but without repeating themselves. Hell, I don't blame them."

Some dude from Metal-archives:

"Every song on here makes me think of how bands like Carcass and At the Gates did slick, well-produced melodic death metal so much better over a decade ago. The music on here is standard, mid-paced Gothenburg "death" metal with no surprises, and dispite my general dislike of the genre, I liked what I heard coming from Amon Amarth."

COC:

"The album itself is one of those predictable affairs if you already know the band; an album that that will neither seriously disappoint existing fans nor win any former disbelievers over. "



Finding those took about 20 seconds, and you can do it from all the other albums too, probably from The Avenger onwards. It's steamingly obvious - these guys play 'in their sound' over and over and over again. I'm not going traipsing through hours of uninspired music looking for the modulation of a couple of D#'s at the 2.10 minute mark. Massive evolution bollocks. They should call their next album "More Viking Shit with Flames on the Cover", because that's exactly what it will be unless they discover veganism and pottery.

The interesting thing is this - all of the above reviews are positive. Most of them are 8/10 or thereabouts. Which is pretty much correct... this is well-played, well-executed solid music. However, solid can go grude-fuck itself. I want music to challenge me, I'm not going on a scavenger hunt for maturity through the Tracks of the Bloody Necroyeti.

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I know its fine that I don't like them and its also acceptable that I objectively insist that the haven't evolved. They really haven't! The lyrical concept certainly hasn't evolved, structure hasn't, the melodies follow the same writhing process, their recording methods have certainly not changed (what their budget hasn't allowed them to do in the past dosen't count), etc. Jim's review quotes are a perfect example. You could compare the same situation to bands like Opeth (with the exception of Damnation) and Dying Fetus - all the albums are good and well done, but are sadly redundant. The lyrics may differentiate in a few isolated songs, some tracks may have different speed and time signatures along with length, but its relatively the exact same thing as the last albums (which also do the same thing in trying to be different but within their writing style). Most bands are afraid to leave their winning writing method derelict and try new things. Thats fine too. Well, not really - but its understandable.

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did you really want to take french? most people dont learn and or remember shit from their highschool class cause they didnt really want to learn it in the first place. for me at least I have always been fascinated with language and jelouse of people that could speak more then one. so I teach myself. but to be fair norwegian/swedish/danish is so close that if your learning one you can pretty much get what the other two are saying

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That's pretty cool...no, I fucking hated french(its not mandatory after grade 9), years ago I wanted to learn Japanese but I quickly gave up on that...I'd like to learn spanish some day however..I know a few words/phrases..."cerveza por favor"..

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yeah because im interested in the language, i retain it real fast. i just teach it to myself for fun, and teaching consists pretty much of tlaking out loud/over msn with danish people who make fun of me because i suck at it so bad


at the darko/fbs, im not gonna quote you guys and dissect each piece and defend my point of view, way too time consuming however i do appreciate the time you guys took in your posts. reviews are reviews, but certainly arent substituable hearing the albums yourself! the one review that said aa havent changed was way off, as theres a big change between versus and fate of norns!

how i feel AA have changed

melodically- the songs are harmonized at different intervals, riffs are different, simpler, less tremolo picking now compared to the older stuff.

structurally- the riffs have taken a backseat to johanns voice/lyrics and what once was just riff based music is now more ...hrm, song based?

recording methods-they used to layer upon layer guitar tracks, the standard of at least 10 guitar tracks was on all of their albums the latest. there was an absolutely noticeable approach to the recording process on the Fate of Norns which for the most part is simply two guitar tracks! bass and drums. thats a very noticeable change in production which was not the result of a poor budget (im assuming they have more money now than they did before..)


instrumentally- johanns voice has lowered and deepend ,as is typical. the drums arent NEARLY as fast now. guitars changed as stated.

lyrically - the older songs werent about viking myth and stories as much as the new ones are. the lyrics are all either stories from the point of view of a viking or actual reworkings of folk tales, compared to a song like "metal wrath" from the older albums

from album to album, itd be a hell of a lot harder to pinpoint evolution but put on once sent from a golden hall, versus the world, and then the fate of norns. Very, very very different styles

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Those are all subtle changes within their usually writing. Although those points could be countered, I don't hate/care this band enough to put effort into it. Also, they probably layered 10 guitar tracks (which seems like a slight exaggeration because that would most probably sound like shit) because they couldn't get the heavy tone they wanted, which of now they can, and don't have to go to such lengths. Its okay for a band you adore to have mediocricies about them and to admit it.

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hey yeah

no its not an exaggeration, the guitar tone on the avenger/crusher albums is really muddy and indistinguishable. on a side note most albums have at least that many guitar tracks, eq'ed differently and turned way down in the mix

im not going to say amon amarth are mediocre, no way! but i dont care much for the early albums. its the last two that i love

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Transient...don't justify...just insult.


SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU CUNT G-UNIT WHITE MICHAEL JACKSON BITCHES!!

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I definately did NOT say spermboxes!

what the hell did you say then

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Brundköggul. I just made up that word right there.. it sound rather funny in icelandic and it could catch on as a new insult. Anyway.. it's like a stain of cum. Just not really a stain... think of dried up sperm.

Another good one is 'forhúðarostur'.. the cheese of the penis! (smegma)

hrm. you icelanders are weird folk!

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Well we are trve necro kvlt since we're FROM TEH NORTT and all. Plus, we are more viking than all the rest of you.

the crusher and the avenger are my fave albums
the last with pagan blood is one of my fave metal songs ever...so much energy

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oh, well I had asked another icelander about that and thats what he told me it said

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agreed


yes last with pagan blood, bastards of a lying breed, the avenger, north sea storm, all great songs

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good news
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bl...ewsitemID=45744

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yay, im sure it will rule

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Ok I got a question about them, what kind of guitars do they use? Do they use 7-strings, or do they just downtune?

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gibson explorers

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Oh yeah? Im norwegian, so we`re equal

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Fate of Norns is great... indeed

Coincidentally, I was listening to Amon Amarth for quite a long time.

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cover art for their new dvd
http://photobucket.com/albums/y160/..._DVD_Cover1.jpg

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NICE!!!!!

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Awesome, when does this dvd come out? (sorry if this was already mentioned)

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dont be sorry....with Amon you can never be to aware of their happenins...but never ask questions, just do when hegg says...oh and its May 2nd


this makes me happy where i shouldnt be

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i just got the news of the dvd today, and i see its already up on metaltabs. FUCK YEAH!!!!!! and FINALLY as well.

your english sucks

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@Amon DvD
It is awesome!
I cant wait untill I have this great DvD! I heard so much about it and it should be really really awesome...

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bad ass

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working on a new album...sounds very nice

amon amarth \m/ they're awesome. i play The pursuit of vikings with my band sometimes, cool song

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DVD will be great new album will be great and Wacken with special Viking show will be great!

AA is my absoluteley favourite band i saw them live once here in hamburg...it was great, first line...awesome!

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What kind of bass does Ted Lundström use? It's fucking nice!

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