In Amon Amarth's "With Oden on Our Side" it's quite hard to tell the album's overall strong points. Throughout the album, different tracks display different amounts of skill and uniqueness for each instrument. The vocals remain pretty constant throughout the album with the monotonous yet barbaric sound, and the drums stay pretty strong as well with some more outstanding points. Solo-wise I find that this album has multiple brilliant writings but, some of the verses lack a sense of enthusiasm or catchiness that leaves an unsettling feeling after the track ends. An example of this is readily displayed in the album's second track "Ruins to My Memory," "Prediction of Warfare," and in "Hermod's Ride to Hel". There really is just something about these tracks that seem to lack a certain something in the main verses of the song. The rest of the album really displays more technical riffing and the entire album has really catchy melodic solos that would readily appeal to fans of older In Flames or (for some of you that can't relate) Light This City. Examples of what I found to be the most outstanding works on this album were easily noticed in tracks such as "Asator," the album's title track, "Cry of the Black Birds," and "Under the Northern Star". Where other tracks seemed to lack that certain flare, these tracks indefinately made up for it. The musicianship found within these tracks appealed to me as more thought out and cleverly arranged where as other tracks contained a little too much repitition.