ARCH ENEMY — Anthems of Rebellion (review)

ARCH ENEMY — Anthems of Rebellion album cover Album · 2003 · Melodic Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Time Signature
Saints and bangers...

Genre: melodic death metal

One of the things that I really like about Arch Enemy is their ecclectic approach and how you can find elements of death metal, thrash metal, traditional heavy metal, power metal, progressive metal and so on, not just on the same record, but often in the same song. I think this is as much a contributor to Arch Emeny's originality in sound as the focus on melody is.

Ecclectism and variation certainly characterizes the mighty "Anthems of Rebellion". The first proper track, "Silent Wars" starts out as an old school thrasher, which constitutes its default athmosphere, but it contains elements from power metal and progressive metal alike. The following track, the hit "Rise" is a midtempo track, which reminds me of both Depeche Mode and Anthrax' "Only". And the rest of the album continues down the road of variation, incorporating elements from all of the metal landscape, and sometimes beyond. But, we are not dealing with a band that hasn't found its style, we are dealing with a band where ecceltcism IS its style.

I think this album will appeal to fans of many different subgenres within the heavy metal world (and probably be shunned by purists).
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Time Signature wrote:
more than 2 years ago
They certainly are polished, but having been exposed to some really sh*tty polished pop metal recently, even the most polished hair metal power ballad now seems dirty as hell ;-)
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
It´s been a while since I listened to Arch Enemy. Maybe I´ll dig out some of those old albums someday soon to have another listen. I remember most of their albums to be a bit too polished and melodic for my taste, but maybe that has changed.

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