Not one of Amon Amarth's best efforts... it sure has their most famous songs, but in front of all their other albuns, this one seems a little shallow in comparison.

Epic and awesome as fuck, just as pretty much every other AA album. by far the best track imo is the first one. i sometimes listen to AA and think how can this possibly be made to sound any more epic and heavy.

I agree, a mind blowing album that shows that Amon Amarth is always constantly improving and will only get better. 8.5/10

I like this album a lot. Pretty epic as Valentin B said.

I like the songs on this one that are just real crushers. "The Pursuit of Vikings" just makes me feel like smashing something with a giant hammer.

Not quite as powerful as versus the world or their later releases, but it still has some AA classics on here. Arson is an awesome song to march to war to\m/

Written by Valentin B on 12.06.2010 at 14:30

Epic and awesome as fuck, just as pretty much every other AA album. by far the best track imo is the first one. i sometimes listen to AA and think how can this possibly be made to sound any more epic and heavy.

It is not like other, cant you hear its secend album where vocals is ''calmer'' not typical DM grows, he growling still but its much easyer to hear actual lyrics not grrrrrrrrrrrr all the time

Yeah... this is nowhere near as good as the albums it's sandwitched between. 1, 4 and 7 are modest songs.

So much to like here. I was rewarded through many repeated listenings to this album.

Barring "The Fate Of Norns" and "The Pursuit Of Vikings" this is an incredibly boring album. They even managed to screw up their ballad track, "Arson".

Quite a boring one...i hate to say it cause The Pursuit of Vikings was a Perfect song!

Written by MichaelAngeloT on 03.08.2014 at 12:31

Quite a boring one...i hate to say it cause The Pursuit of Vikings was a Perfect song!

Its not boring it brings ''new sound'' before it was more death metal into album , now its more melodic ''little softer'' , this album and specially that song brought me to AA

Very strong album in my opinion, the first four tracks are really good, especially "The Fate of Norns" and "The Pursuit of Vikings". "Valkyries Ride" is the less interesting song on this album I think.

This is their first step towards their trademark sound, which they have now stuck to since. This album is indeed very good, it's different to their previous release in the sense that the riffs aren't as long and repetitive, it also sounds a little less brutal, and they had obviously gone for a much more melodic approach.

Overall this album is a good effort, but they had certainly improved on this with their next release. The stand out track for me is "The Fate Of The Norns", which is one of my favourite all time AA songs, the rest range from decent to average for me.