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Well... I'm not sure if it's okei to put it here or if it's a different genre, but actually I'm awful separating groups by subgenres... For me, they're all metal, and that's all. :D But whatever... I thought these amazing guys should be mentioned somewhere! I saw them alive —relatively— recently, and I'm more than satisfied! They're just great, or at least I think so. Metal up! lml

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I've given this band its chance over and over again throughout the years' date=' but the vocals are just shit. The instrumental work is mediocre. Just not worth listening to.[/quote'] Check out their Stigmata album, it's easily my favorite of theirs. It's their heaviest, most savage, and yet well executed album, great leads, solos, and melodies, heavy riffs, and powerful vocals. Look up the song Beast of Man, it should change your opinion of them. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Actually, I'm starting to get more into them now. My look on subgenres has been fairly unstable recently, and a lot more music has started sounding good to me. Either way, that album still remains a masterpiece of melodeath, and a good amount of other albums are getting added to my playlist. Guess I've just been a narrow-minded fuck recently and haven't given them another chance with my constantly varying opinions.

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Actually, I'm starting to get more into them now. My look on subgenres has been fairly unstable recently, and a lot more music has started sounding good to me. Either way, that album still remains a masterpiece of melodeath, and a good amount of other albums are getting added to my playlist. Guess I've just been a narrow-minded fuck recently and haven't given them another chance with my constantly varying opinions.
Lol, it's all good, I'm glad you liked it. The debut Black Earth and the follow up Burning Bridges, while not as good as Stigmata, should appeal to you as well, having a similar sound. Your next best bet would be to check out the Carcass album Heartwork if you haven't already, it's where Mike Amott really developed the melodic sound that he carried through to Arch Enemy. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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I've never even heard of Carcass before, which comes as a bit of a surprise to me with the popularity of their tracks. Heartwork is definitely something I'm adding to my playlist. The rest just looks like another take on Cannibal Corpse, and from what I've stated on one of the other fifteen threads we're conversing on, you know by now that I can't stand that shit. Burning Bridges was the next album I looked at, after checking out Stigmata. Definitely a good piece of work. The vocals in these albums are MUCH better than the female vocalist I kept hearing over the years. Am I listening to a female vocalist? If I am, I'm kind of afraid of that fact. All I know is that I like the vocals of these albums over what I've heard in the past.

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I've never even heard of Carcass before, which comes as a bit of a surprise to me with the popularity of their tracks. Heartwork is definitely something I'm adding to my playlist. The rest just looks like another take on Cannibal Corpse, and from what I've stated on one of the other fifteen threads we're conversing on, you know by now that I can't stand that shit. Burning Bridges was the next album I looked at, after checking out Stigmata. Definitely a good piece of work. The vocals in these albums are MUCH better than the female vocalist I kept hearing over the years. Am I listening to a female vocalist? If I am, I'm kind of afraid of that fact. All I know is that I like the vocals of these albums over what I've heard in the past.
They got a female vocalist starting with The Wages of Sin, and she's terrible. She has a really weak and raspy style that has no power behind it, yet people are endlessly impressed by it because she's a female. Don't get me wrong, there are some great harsh female vocalists out there, she just isn't one of them. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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Their female vocalist is why I never liked them. Their male vocalist has a great voice for death though.
I haven't heard much that he has done since he was booted from Arch Enemy, but I love his vocals with Furbowl, one of his earlier bands. They're sort of a rockish Swedish death metal band, but if you like Dismember and Entombed you may dig them as well. Those Shredded Dreams is definitely an underrated Swedish death metal album. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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This band is fine, but really nothing spectacular. Gossow is OK, but very much a stock death vocalist in my opinion with little to make her stand out. Some of their material is nice for a casual listen but they are definitely outclassed by their contemporaries.

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I wonder if a lot of people only like them because they have a chick singer who CAN scream rather than a vocalist who can scream well. I guess I can see why people like them, at least they aren't like a lot of bands that just throw a chick in front of a mic to front an otherwise unremarkable band; instrumentally Arch Enemy is pretty decent.

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I wonder if a lot of people only like them because they have a chick singer who CAN scream rather than a vocalist who can scream well. I guess I can see why people like them' date=' at least they aren't like a lot of bands that just throw a chick in front of a mic to front an otherwise unremarkable band; instrumentally Arch Enemy is pretty decent.[/quote'] They got more attention with a shitty vocalist and worse music, must be her looks... Nope, I wouldn't fuck her with a stolen dick. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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They got more attention with a shitty vocalist and worse music, must be her looks... Nope, I wouldn't fuck her with a stolen dick. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
You'd be surprised. I've heard plenty of metalheads who think ugly chicks are hot simply because they are in a metal band. Blackguard has a chick drummer with a moose face and i've heard people say she's hot. For the record I do not find either chick attractive.
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You'd be surprised. I've heard plenty of metalheads who think ugly chicks are hot simply because they are in a metal band. Blackguard has a chick drummer with a moose face and i've heard people say she's hot. For the record I do not find either chick attractive.
It shouldn't have anything to do with that. If the position is being filled well, it shouldn't matter the sex of the person. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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