Most of the riffs rise and fall, lending that epic quality Viking metal strives for, and giving the listener the impression that they’re traveling along with the bloodthirsty horde. With Oden On Our Side keeps up the atmospheric approach half the time, but the rest of the album turns up the brutality, with low, staccato riffing and precise, hammerlike drumming. Their previous release, 2005’s Fate Of Norns, had a very strong atmospheric element to it, which reached its peak in songs like the title track, a hopeless and agonized paean to the futility of fighting fate. This is, of course, not too different from the rest of their discography, but, like other bands that have found their favored niche, this only means more of the same quality. With Oden On Our Side is an ode to glorious death and battle, honor and the sight of enemy blood. Amon Amarth seem to have heard a different version of that riddle, one asking after the sound of an enraged Viking horde, and have given us a very similar answer. The answer I’ve always heard given is the sound of an elegantly violent strike. There is an old riddle that inquires as to the sound of one hand clapping.
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