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On 30/07/2017 at 4:24 AM, deathstorm said:

Alyssa white glutz has a solo cd coming out in 2017

God help us. She's a terrible singer. I hate to be cynical when it comes to women in metal because they're obviously under-represented statistically, but there's really only one reason why those Arch Enemy videos get so many millions of views on youtube, right? 

I'm still really excited for Paradise Lost (despite True Belief's recent measured assessment), Moonspell and Cradle of Filth. 

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On 8/4/2017 at 1:37 AM, Requiem said:

God help us. She's a terrible singer. I hate to be cynical when it comes to women in metal because they're obviously under-represented statistically, but there's really only one reason why those Arch Enemy videos get so many millions of views on youtube, right? 

I'm still really excited for Paradise Lost (despite True Belief's recent measured assessment), Moonspell and Cradle of Filth. 

She sounds awful to me. A bit like Angela but even more studio processed, like something from a 'core' genre. It even looks like she's fulfilling a role; merely stepping into the role of Angela with all of her mannerisms. Angela Gossow wasn't too bad. She had a decent growl even if it was rather one dimensional but she came off as being more convincing.   

Michael Amott is obviously very talented but has always seemed more intent on releasing a product rather than anything artistic. His ansty and cliched lyrics are some of the worst. Can someone please do an idiom check? I want to know how many times the tables have turned!  

 

 

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8 hours ago, Vampyrique said:

She sounds awful to me. A bit like Angela but even more studio processed, like something from a 'core' genre. It even looks like she's fulfilling a role; merely stepping into the role of Angela with all of her mannerisms. Angela Gossow wasn't too bad. She had a decent growl even if it was rather one dimensional but she came off as being more convincing.   

Michael Amott is obviously very talented but has always seemed more intent on releasing a product rather than anything artistic. His ansty and cliched lyrics are some of the worst. Can someone please do an idiom check? I want to know how many times the tables have turned!  

 

 

Alissa is from the melodic metalcore band The Agonist, so I wasn't surprised to hear her sound that way. Angela sucks, but Alissa is worse. The role that she's fulfilling is to be the eye candy for a shitty pop/metal band, it doesn't really matter how talented Amott and Loomis are, the songs they write are lame.

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I had never even heard of The Agonist until she joined Arch Enemy but I don't know anything about metalcore. I can only imagine that Arch Enemy will begin to incorporate more clean vocals and autotune on future releases. 

I believe Michael Amott has always been the primary songwriter/lyricist. I don't know if Michael even lets the bass player record anything on albums. 

Wages of Sin has some pretty good songs. 

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20 minutes ago, Vampyrique said:

I had never even heard of The Agonist until she joined Arch Enemy but I don't know anything about metalcore. I can only imagine that Arch Enemy will begin to incorporate more clean vocals and autotune on future releases. 

I believe Michael Amott has always been the primary songwriter/lyricist. I don't know if Michael even lets the bass player record anything on albums. 

Wages of Sin has some pretty good songs. 

Arch Enemy only matters for me in the Johan Liiva era. Angela's weak vocals and the streamlined poppy songwriting does nothing for me on the later releases. 

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1 minute ago, Idromos247 said:

I personally enjoy Arch enemy ENTIRE discography. Sometimes all I want is a Melodic death metal Dragonforce. Not all my metal has to be trve!

 

But anyway have any of you guys listened to the new Septicflesh???? I'm loving it!

But wouldn't you at least like to have all your metal be good? :D

Funny thing about that Septicflesh album - it's good as far as their new sound goes, and I've enjoyed listening to it two or three times now, but I honestly think that might be enough for me. Like, despite all the work and talent they put into it, and all the cool parts etc etc, I don't think I have anything more to squeeze out of it that I don't already get from (say) Titan. It's an odd feeling, to really enjoy something, and simultaneously to feel underwhelmed.

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16 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

 

Funny thing about that Septicflesh album - it's good as far as their new sound goes, and I've enjoyed listening to it two or three times now, but I honestly think that might be enough for me. Like, despite all the work and talent they put into it, and all the cool parts etc etc, I don't think I have anything more to squeeze out of it that I don't already get from (say) Titan. It's an odd feeling, to really enjoy something, and simultaneously to feel underwhelmed.

This concerns me somewhat and reminds me that, alarmingly, I still haven't ordered this album and I sort of forget about its existence until someone mentions it. 

Also, I don't own a single Arch Enemy album. Which is strange because I've got quite a lot of melodeath material. The two grand anomalies of my fairly epic CD collection are that there is not a single Death or Arch Enemy album. Weird. I won't be buying an Arch Enemy album now either, as nothing I've heard over the past 20 years has come close to being entertaining, whether in the current era or back when they had blokes a-singing. 

16 hours ago, MacabreEternal said:

I loved the last Bell End.  

Fixed it for you. 

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5 minutes ago, Requiem said:

This concerns me somewhat and reminds me that, alarmingly, I still haven't ordered this album and I sort of forget about its existence until someone mentions it. 

 

Your mileage may vary. There are a lot of positive things about the album. Really nice choirs, fun orchestral parts, etc etc. I could even say objectively that it encapsulates a lot of what I think is best about their "new" sound, and the songs are well put together. That's why it stands out as a weird and mildly frustrating thing that my overall experience of it is so bland. I want to like it. Maybe it's partially a gut reaction to the ultra-modern sound? I really can't quite put my finger on it. Listen to it on YouTube and see what you think.

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3 minutes ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Your mileage may vary. There are a lot of positive things about the album. Really nice choirs, fun orchestral parts, etc etc. I could even say objectively that it encapsulates a lot of what I think is best about their "new" sound, and the songs are well put together. That's why it stands out as a weird and mildly frustrating thing that my overall experience of it is so bland. I want to like it. Maybe it's partially a gut reaction to the ultra-modern sound? I really can't quite put my finger on it. Listen to it on YouTube and see what you think.

No way, I'm not listening to it on youtube. I want to experience it with the booklet, lyrics, artwork etc. I'm definitely going to order it - I love this band with a passion. I just keep forgetting to and I've already blown what I can reasonably get away with this month. Come September 12th, it's ordered! 

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7 hours ago, Requiem said:

This concerns me somewhat and reminds me that, alarmingly, I still haven't ordered this album and I sort of forget about its existence until someone mentions it. 

Also, I don't own a single Arch Enemy album. Which is strange because I've got quite a lot of melodeath material. The two grand anomalies of my fairly epic CD collection are that there is not a single Death or Arch Enemy album. Weird. I won't be buying an Arch Enemy album now either, as nothing I've heard over the past 20 years has come close to being entertaining, whether in the current era or back when they had blokes a-singing. 

Fixed it for you. 

Overall, you're not missing anything by not having any Arch Enemy. Even at their prime, there were many better melodeath bands around, but Black Earth and Stigmata are pretty good. Especially given your preference of Amott-era Carcass (including the very melodic new album), I would think that they would do it for you. 

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On ‎9‎/‎5‎/‎2017 at 3:11 PM, FatherAlabaster said:

But wouldn't you at least like to have all your metal be good? :D

Good music is all a matter of perspective too a point. While I love Origin, Kreator, Napalm Death, Nile, Necronomicon, AND Anaal Nathrakh; sometimes I want to hear a band like The Unguided, Arch enemy, soilwork, Killswitch, or Caliban... I consider those bands my catchy fun pop metal that my wife can rock to as well... And its fun on shuffle.

 

I agree about Septicflesh. It has that "Been there and done that" feeling.... But its still epic and I'm a sucker for symphonic Death metal and its better than fleshgod LOL

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11 hours ago, Idromos247 said:

Good music is all a matter of perspective too a point. While I love Origin, Kreator, Napalm Death, Nile, Necronomicon, AND Anaal Nathrakh; sometimes I want to hear a band like The Unguided, Arch enemy, soilwork, Killswitch, or Caliban... I consider those bands my catchy fun pop metal that my wife can rock to as well... And its fun on shuffle.

 

I agree about Septicflesh. It has that "Been there and done that" feeling.... But its still epic and I'm a sucker for symphonic Death metal and its better than fleshgod LOL

"Pop metal"? Isn't that akin to calling something "black white" or "large small"?

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On ‎9‎/‎8‎/‎2017 at 8:37 PM, BlutAusNerd said:

"Pop metal"? Isn't that akin to calling something "black white" or "large small"?

It is. But I'm using the word "pop" to simply say its "basic", "accessible", "not-brutal", and "easy listening" when compared to the more Aggressive and underground bands within metal. =)

Not every track I listen to has to be br0000tal.

 

I'm looking forward to the new cannibal corpse albums "Red fades to black" coming on Nov 3!! IDC what anyone says about cannibal.. I love their latest efforts.

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