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When a band is named after the Mountain of Doom in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, you're pretty much guaranteed epic metal at its most extravagant. But despite their lyrical bent (including 'Dungeons and Dragons' titles like 'Ride for Vengeance', 'Victorious March' and 'The Dragons' 'Flight Across the Waves'), Sweden's Amon Amarth eschew the expected Germanic power metal usually associated with such subject matter for brutally intense Scandinavian death metal.
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