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Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

Advantages: Fantstic guitars , great vocals , everything fits together
Disadvantages: some songs are repetive , too long and out of place

...mainstream metal breakthrough. Personally doomsday machine is my favourite arch enemy album, it gets the balance right between power and creativity and doesn't bore the listener. Some of the riffs on this album are fantastic and very original, the solos are very good, and the first time I heard the vocals I could not believe such a sound could come from a woman! Needless to say I was very impressed with this album, after listening to wages of sin, ...
...peak of Arch Enemy's stand out sound. Stand out tracks (for good an bad reasons) Nemesis: this song had a video made for it and quite rightly so. The whole song is a fast paced attack on the senses and is generally a favoured track from this band; it's like the "battery" of Arch Enemy, for the metallica fans that read this review. Carry the cross: personally I feel this is quite an underrated song with metal fans, the song has a steady pace is ...

Discontinued 02.12.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Doomsday Machine, The - Arch Enemy

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Great and inspirational album for all metalheads

Advantages: Inspirational for metalheads, great vocals, great lyrics, etc
Disadvantages: none

The First time I was introduced to Arch Enemy was on the television show Uranium on Fuse, back when Metal Mistress Juliya was there, and they seemed to somewhat care about heavy metal. Juliya was doing a feature on different women in metal and the present lead singer for the death metal band Arch Enemy, Angela Gossow was one of the people interviewed. I also got the chance to hear the song "We Will Rise". The song We will Rise is very motivational ...
...itself. The meaning is quite self explanatory. It's about metalheads rising about mainstream music such as pop, rap, hip hop and so on. Other popular songs on the album are Leader of the Rats and Dead Eyes See no Future. I strongly recommend metalhead to listen to those two. TRACK LIST: 1. "Tear Down the Walls (Intro)" 2. "Silent Wars" 3. "We Will Rise" 4. "Dead Eyes See No Future" 5. "Instinct" 6. "Leader of the Rats" 7. "Exist to Exit" 8. "Marching ...

RedTape 12.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Anthems Of Rebellion - Arch Enemy

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Superb come back

Advantages: Melodic Death Metal Riffs
Disadvantages: None as far as I know

After the recent change of singer from the previous, Johan Liiva, Arch enemy made a bold move to change singer with a female, Angela Gosscow, who pulls off the singing with style. The singing is noticeablly perfected with the unique range of sounds, from growls to screams, it goes perfectly with the death-crunch behind all the music. As per usual, the Amott brothers play with their axes making that death-cruching noise, yet with the melodic swedish ...

Chavs 19.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Wages Of Sin - Arch Enemy

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The best metal album of late 2008

Advantages: Simply superb - vocally and musically
Disadvantages: Some tracks may sound similar on first lsiten

Tyrants of the Rising Sun by Arch Enemy is an awesome set of 2 CD's of live concert and a DVD which contains a film of a concert in early 2008 and a 40 minute road movie. Arch Enemy have been brilliant since the arrival of Angela Gossow in 2001, the pretty lead singer has a voice from the bowels of hell and adds real stage presence. In no Arch Enemy album to date has their been such an energetic feel to the music, you can really feel it on this live ...
...insane for metal. As Gossow bounds around the stage, occasionally higher than the rest of the band as she booms out from a podium with a state of authority it assures you that this is definitely not a woman you'd like to have an argument with! One of the few female vocalists in metal to not go with the tried and tested yet relatively dull melodic sound, she has awesome growling vocals which are a match for any male metal vocalist on the planet. The ...

dangaroo 16.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Tyrants Of The Rising Sun (Live In Japan) - Arch Enemy

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One of the best albums i own

Advantages: Fantastic metal album
Disadvantages: None

A truly fantastic album by Arch Enemy The album starts of with a nice harmonised heavy metal song, which leads into heavier, riff crazy songs. The crunching guitar riffs contrast well with the fantastic lead guitar parts and screaming vocals, the band takes metal to a whole new level offering a variety of heavy metal songs that will make you want to pick up a guitar and play yourself - Arch Enemy Truly outdo themselves with this immense album. ...

magsmagsmags 25.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Black Earth - Arch Enemy

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