Versus the World

by Amon Amarth

Versus the World cover art

Considered a crucial turning point for the Viking metal stalwarts, this exceptionally cohesive record slowed their pacing slightly to favor massive, head-banging grooves. The soaring lead guitar melodies and gargantuan, triumphant choruses set the definitive blueprint for their subsequent global dominance.

Genres

  • Melodic Death Metal

Tracklist

  1. Death in Fire
  2. For the Stabwounds in Our Back
  3. Where Silent Gods Stand Guard
  4. Versus the World
  5. Across the Rainbow Bridge
  6. Down the Slopes of Death
  7. Thousand Years of Oppression
  8. Bloodshed
  9. ...And Soon the World Will Cease to Be
  10. Siegreicher Marsch (Victorious March)
  11. Sorrow Throughout the Nine Worlds
  12. The Arrival of the Fimbul Winter
  13. Burning Creation
  14. The Mighty Doors of the Speargod's Hall
  15. Under the Grey Clouded Winter Sky
  16. Burning Creation (Demo Version)
  17. Arrival of the Fimbul Winter
  18. Without Fear
  19. Risen from the Sea
  20. Atrocious Humanity
  21. Army of Darkness
  22. Thor Arise
  23. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath