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I Like Being Scared
 
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| I haven't listened to much of Doomsday Machine, but Anthems of Rebellion is an embarassment and Wages of Sin wasn't that great either. The one song I heard off of Doomsday didn't sound very promising. I may sound like I'm being harsh but you have to realize how much SKILL Michael Ammot has that he isn't utilizing. Listen to his work on Carcass "Heartwork," and on Arch Enemy's "Burning Bridges" or "Stigmata". The solos are good on the new albums, but the riffing is watered down and uninspired. In my opinion Angela Gossow is nothing but a gimmick, and it worked. Johann Liiva was a great vocalist in my opinion, and they just fired him out of the blue and got Angela. Her vocals have always sounded abrasive and one dimensional to my ears, but now Arch Enemy is just known as the band with the chick singer. Just listen to Burning Bridges and you will see why I think this band could be doing so much better. Or check out Stigmata, this one is always overlooked. The songs were MUCH heavier, they actually used some blastbeats back then and the melodies were catchy and stay in your head for days. Now the band opted for commercialism over writing challenging, complex music. That's ok for some but I think I'll pass.
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Supreme Being
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| They did use blastbeats on the new album too, but I agree that the albums with Johan were better. I do love the music on Wages and Angela sounded decent on that album, but she has no where near the power or the range of Johan. They didn't fire him out of the blue though. It was mutual since he didn't really wanna tour anymore so he formed Hearse and Nonexist (which he left). Hearse is an amazing band anyways. Armageddon Mon Amour is an amazing album. Brutal, fast and very melodic.
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I Like Being Scared
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Metalhead87 (3/27/2006)
They did use blastbeats on the new album too, but I agree that the albums with Johan were better. I do love the music on Wages and Angela sounded decent on that album, but she has no where near the power or the range of Johan. They didn't fire him out of the blue though. It was mutual since he didn't really wanna tour anymore so he formed Hearse and Nonexist (which he left). Hearse is an amazing band anyways. Armageddon Mon Amour is an amazing album. Brutal, fast and very melodic. I stand corrected. I never knew the exact details of the split, I had heard that he was fired but it must have been a rumor. Nonexist was awesome, did they break up? I would've liked to hear another album from them. Never heard Hearse, I'll have to check that out.
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| I don't think Nonexist broke up, I think they're just going to go on without him but I'm not really sure. Hearse is great. Very high energy death n roll, a little like The Crown actually. I know Johan isn't really interested in the whole touring thing, he just wants to make and play music and lead a regular life. He was sort of fired but it was mutual. They gave him an ultimatum that he has to be more active with the band but he didn't really want to. I don't blame him. I'd never want to go on tour, it seems very difficult.
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I Like Being Scared
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| Not too keen on Doomsday Machine at all. It has two songs i enjoy off it. I prefer their first three albums Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges by a mile.
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Supreme Being
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Burning Bridges is probably one of my favorite albums from the Swedish melo-death/thrash scene.
I did a review for it by the way.
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I'm Scared
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Why do you consider Arch Enemy thrash?
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stjerneheimen (9/5/2007)
Why do you consider Arch Enemy thrash?I dunno. I didn't move it.... *shrug*
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