Amon Amarth Claims The Crown: The World's Greatest Metal Band Currently In Their Prime

Amon Amarth/Deceiver Of The Gods (2013)-Review:
 [Album Rating: Near-Classic 9/10.]
[Country: Sweden. Genre: Melodic Death Metal.]

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 With the riveting Deceiver of The Gods -- a vengeful thunderstorm of an album! -- Amon Amarth have claimed the crown as the World's Greatest Metal Band currently in their prime. THIS is the album that fans have been hoping for -- to follow-up the stellar AA-career defining duo of 2006's With Oden On Our Side and 2008's Twilight Of The Thunder God. 2004's Fate Of Norns took Amon Amarth to the next level (though they were already on just about the highest plane imaginable, true) with their two all-time greatest songs: The Pursuit Of Vikings, and The Fate Of Norns. But it is with this latest trilogy of albums (skipping 2011's weaker Surtur Rising) that Amon Amarth claims top-dog status in today's worldwide metal scene. This is where Iron Maiden once stood, and this is where Opeth once stood... At the pinnacle of metal -- music's greatest genre, featuring nearly 100,000 bands (see Metal-Archives.com!), and still surging as one of the greatest cultural phenomenons of our lifetimes. Raise your horns to the sky, for the Metal Gods from Stockholm!

AMON AMARTH / DECEIVER OF THE GODS [RATING 9 / 10]

Synopsis: With lyrics that *will* transport you, this is an intense & driven album, stoked with a dazzling sense of melodicism.

[TOP 2 TRACKS: COMING OF THE TIDE, AS LOKE FALLS]
[Album released June 2013 on Metal Blade]