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With 'The Avenger' from 1999, Amon Amarth have been summoned before Odin to confirm the greatness they achieved on 'Once Sent From the Golden Hall'... and they succeeded!
The album consists of 7 songs (plus the bonus track "Thor Arise" in the limited edition) where an epic, solemn, and battle-like atmosphere lingers, as only Amon Amarth can create. The guitar riffs create melodic lines that the mind will hardly forget, the drums almost always settle on fast rhythms, while the singer Johan Hegg, although he has not yet reached the vocal maturity levels of recent albums, stands imperiously on this sound carpet, "shouting," sometimes even with a certain dramatic flair, his hymns to the Norse gods and all his anger against the Christian church that about a thousand years ago forcibly took over those northern territories imposing its religion.
'The Avenger' is more immediate compared to 'Once Sent From the Golden Hall', but not for this reason any less sublime and majestic. Recommended for those who love epic Melodic Death
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 The Last With Pagan Blood (05:39)
We storm ahead with swords and shields
For victory we ride
We fight the world on these battlefields
To re-erect the pagan pride
We draw the blood of those in our way
It's 'victory or die'
With pounding, raging fury we slay
Now christian hounds will pay
Charge ahead, no retreat
No mercy, none shall live
To us there is no defeat
No remorse to give
A wind of power blows from the North
The enemy shivers to the core
We slay with strength, pushing forth
Silence before the storm
The gates of Valhalla open up
The ground beneath us shakes
As Oden leads the gods to war
The Rainbow Bridge cracks
Nothing can stop this final attack
We carve up all in our path
Now there is no turning back
Final battle is here at last
A feast awaits us when we return
Awaiting all that fought in wrath
By the long fires we sit in glory
And beer will cool our soar throats
We are few but strong in will
The last with pagan blood
We fought the world with burning steel
Now we sit in Hall of Gods
Pride and glory in our hearts
Pride and glory in our hearts
04 Avenger (07:11)
My pale face face glows in the light of fire
My hollow eyes see but cannot see
I stare deep into the glowing inferno
The loss I feel is breaking me
I heard their screams
Through flaming walls
Walls, I could not tear down
I could not help them
Helplessly I watched my life go up in flames
I pull the sword from the glowing fire
And hammer-beat in on the anvil
Forging it with rage and hate
I will seal my enemy's fate
I ingrave the blade with magic runes
And summon Gods by sacrifice in blood
Pure blue hate shines within this sword
his magic sword will cut only once
No sword has ever been like this one
The Avenger is its name
Now my sworn enemy
Vengeance will belong to me
A year has gone by
Now my sworn enemy
It's your turn to die
It's your turn to die!
The sword cuts through his throat
His head tumbles to the ground
The headless body lays gently down
Down to sleep in a pool of blood
The Avenger has lost its shine
The magic is now drained
Dull and useless it rests in my hand
Its purpose is soon fulfilled
Now hate is gone but emptiness remains
So I turn the blade around
And run it through my stomach veins
And I fall to the ground
06 Metalwrath (03:49)
Wrath, hate, pain and death
The code we live by
It's in our souls
Metal is the way
We fight the world
With glowing metal
Now the falses will pay
Our fight has just begun
We're sent from hall of gold
Messengers of death
We're coming after you
You can't escape us
We'll take away your breath
See us ride for vengeance
Friends of the suncross
We are born of steel
See us ride down
The Amon Amarth
The last sight you'll ever see
So as you stand there
Under grayclouded skies
Abandoned by your god
You know you're gonna die
You feel a sorrow
Surrounding you
As of the nine worlds
Screaming pain you feel
Your soul vaporizes
As your hearts burst
We charge without fear
Your time has come
Your Fimbul winter's arrived
A chilling wind of ice
Whirls through your heart
Pierces your bones and spine
We are all
Gazing to the skies
We'll make the false hammer fall
And we'll make Thor arise
Our quest is done
Your creation burns
Now we return to Oden's hall
Our dragon's fly
Across the waves
As twilight begins to fall
In victory we ride
We enter the mighty doors
Of the spear-god's hall
As Ygg salutes us
We raise our beers
And drink in honor of our cause
We are all
Greeted by the Gods
We made the false hammer fall
And Thor arose in blood
07 Legend of a Banished Man (06:08)
Run for your lives, death has arrived
Try save your soul, run from the sound of rowing oars
Out of the mist
Breaks a dragon ship
Even more feared
Than the nail-ship "Naglfar"
A bear-coated man stands in the bow
Cold-eyed he gazes towards the shoer
The dragon's head is grim and red
All covered with blood, a gift to the mighty Gods
Warshields are raised, the Gods are praised
The people stare paralyzed with fear
The legend tells of a man that fell
From grace of his baptised king
As a banished man he fled his land
But solemnly sworn to return with holy war
But noone knows how the legend goes
'Cause noones survived
That's gazed into his eyes
'Cause noone's returned that's met his fire
They say wolf-skinned men follow him
Berserks whose eyes burn with flames of ice
Some say mighty Thor
Guides their blades in war
They say they cannot be killed
Nor can their blood be spilled
So run for your lives
Death has arrived
The legend has come
To take the lives of the deceitful ones
Run for your lives
The death ship's arrived
There's no way you'll live
To tell of meeting his fire
08 Thor Arise (05:06)
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