Arch Enemy

[S<issors]

(For those who aren't familiar, AE are a swedish melodic death band who've had a female lead singer for their past three albums.)

"Female Vocals" thread reminded me about these guys. Opinions?

Personally I hated Anthems (lame songs + angela's voice was practically monotone), enjoyed some moments of Wages of Sin, and thought Doomsday Machine was nice, esp. the voice effects on My Apocalypse.

So yeah, love em, hate em, think Angela's a gimmick/talented musician/goofy/whatever, post it up.

 

[x_OPETH_x]

she behaves, grunts, and looks like a male.

AE pre-Angela FTW... those Amott brothers are amazing.

 

[Manbient]

stigmata and burning bridges are two of my favorite melodic death albums actually. Not really cared for much since, even though i prefer angela's vocals over Johan's.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

Arch Femininity

 

[i aint play this]

The blow a bit, some cool songs here and there tho

 

[rainmaker_2413]

I like Arch Enemy alot. I prefer the stuff with Johan (fav album is Stigmata) but I still like Angela. Favorite Angela album is Wages of Sin.

 

[illidurit]

suckfest

 

[Stilgar]

I saw them live a couple of months ago together with my brother, since they were played the same evening as his flight arrived. I was actually really impressed.

 

[NFU]

stigmata is godly. and black earth and burning bridges had many great tracks too. Mangela Grossow can take a hike imho though.

 

[in_absentia]

I saw them also and i was really impressed. I mean fuck, i wish i could growl like that! She is the most known female growler, and i respect that. I enjoy their music alot also, especially Wages of Sin. But i mean when i saw her on stage she had so much charisma, she was really confident and she rocked the whole venue. And plus, she's hot.

 

[Pethical]

burning bridges is my favourite, the new stuff is

 

[metal_wrath]

gotta love those solos, I haven't heard alot of the old stuff, but I would assume the new stuff has better solos, Angela's voice is pretty good, as well as the solos, btw they seem to have alot of good solos and stuff

My favorite solos...

The Immortal
Burning Angel
Dead Eyes See no Future
Skeleton Dance
Nemesis
Ravenous

 

[Manbient]

solo

 

[i aint play this]

lamo @ Angela Shemale being hot

 

[affinityband]

they were fun live when i was 14. havent seen them since though

 

[stefan86]

new stuff is modern euro supercrap but "Burning Bridges" had some quite cool songs for being in such a shitty genre

 

[affinityband]

i think they were always supposed to be a 'fun' band though. and they are/were. not something that needs to be over anaylised though.

 

[stefan86]

yeah, it's one of those "extreme bands for heavy metal fans" I guess. and they were good at it until they kicked out Liiva

 

[affinityband]

i think the whole kicking out liiva didnt really affected it. it really just sounded like they changed the writing entirely. I think if angela had done vocals on the earlier albums i dont think it wouldve made too much difference.

 

[stefan86]

I guess i'm just a fan of Liiva's voice. He has that natural punchy aggression that's almost a bit 80's Death/Thrash. But yeah, music's changed as well. Even if they are super talented it doesn't really matter when they go for such generic and modern riffs already played by a gazillion bands