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Jun 24, 2013When former Candlemass vocalist Messiah Marcolin pops up on the impossibly bombastic Hel, his unmistakable bellow adds another layer of portentous punch to what is plainly the finest album of this band's career.
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Jun 24, 2013Deceiver of the Gods suggests that Amon Amarth may just now be hitting their stride, as it's an undeniably well-honed set, yet the band manage to flex their muscles well outside of the Draconian stylistic confines of the genre by remaining, like a true Viking horde, prickly, primal, and unstable.
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Jun 24, 2013Deceiver of the Gods gives us everything we expect from the band, along with a little old-fashioned metal revitalization.
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Jun 24, 2013No one delivers big, punch-in-the-face motifs better than Amon Amarth, and the Swedish melodic-death-metal titans have excelled themselves on their ninth studio album.
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Kerrang!Jul 15, 2013Deceiver Of the Gods is bold, manly metal with a beard, a beer belly and a big old cry to it. [22 Jun 2013, p.51]
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Jul 19, 2013On Deceiver of the Gods, they are satisfied with plugging 10 new anecdotes into 10 songs they’ve made before and, unfortunately, will most likely make again.
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Aug 1, 2013Ultimately, it's about the extra-chunky riffs and Johan Hegg's inhuman gargle.
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