5. Twilight Of The Thunder God - Amon Amarth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARnBgW5XgSo Metal bands often like to focus their lyrics away from the subject areas that are covered by mainstream music. Power Metal bands often love to focus their lyrical attention to that of fantasy and medieval themes and even death metal is not devoid of that subject area. Sweden's Amon Amarth provides a unique adventure into Norse mythology accompanied with the sheer power and aggression that death metal provides. Thor, Odin and Norse warriors all make up the lyrical content for Amon Amarth and their love for Norse mythology makes a fantastic theme; marvellous album artwork and live stage shows that are just a wonder to the eye! 2008's Twilight of the Thunder God provides a fantastic first listening experience and will rapidly become an essential part of your music library. The riffs featured on tracks like 'Guardians of Asgaard' and 'Free Will Sacrifice' is just a flavour of what you can expect from Amon Amarth. Not to mention that Johan Hegg's vocals resemble the roar of Vikings in battle... Twilight of the Thunder God is a perfect example of melody accompanied with sheer brutality that makes up what is known as melodic death metal. It provides a perfect platform to kickstart your love for music that is heavier than the gateway bands but yet you're not just diving straight into the deep end...