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Originally Posted by LOLPOCALYPSE
I've noticed that too. Metal elitists don't seem to like gimmicks, but Amon Amarth has one of the most gimmicky images out their (but like you said, they are good). In the end, if you are an elitist, you are a follower. People develop elitist tastes so that they can call themselves "trve metal" or "cvlt" or what have you. Even if they liked melodeath, they wouldn't admit it. Something allowed Amon Amarth to slip through the melodeath filter for these elitists. It provided an outlet for them to satisfy the melodeath needs they keep buried deep inside  |
My guess would be the vocalist. He has a much more gutteral death metal voice, rather than the more melodic approach of Anders from In Flames. Not to mention he looks like a fu
cking viking. There is nothing more metal than looking like a viking.