Recorded in 2017, 'Will to Power' is the tenth Arch Enemy album and is the ultimate statement of heavy metal supremacy from a band that are still growing in stature as the years fall away. â??Will To Powerâ?? will be the first album the band have recorded with their current line-up and as Michael Amott explains, diehard fans will be both thrilled to hear their favourite band on top form and somewhat surprised by their latest creative explorations.
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Recorded in 2017, the tenth Arch Enemy album unleashed late 2017 and promises to be the ultimate statement of heavy metal supremacy from a band that are still growing in stature as the years fall away. Will To Power will be the first album the band have recorded with their current line-up and as Michael Amott explains, diehard fans will be both thrilled to hear their favorite band on top form and somewhat surprised by their latest creative explorations. Once Will To Power hits the streets, Arch Enemy will do what they do best, hitting the road and taking their latest batch of heroic metal anthems to the people.
Comes in a standard jewel case with clear tray and 16-page booklet.
Info from booklet:
Drums recorded at Studio Mega, Varberg, Sweden.
Lead guitars, rhythm guitars, bass and vocals recorded at The Sweetspot Satellite, Halmstad, Sweden.
Strings engineered at Riksmixningsverket, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Technical specifications
Language
Features
Target audience
Adult
Song titles
Disc 1:
1 Set Flame To The Night
2 The Race
3 Blood In The Water
4 The World Is Yours
5 The Eagle Flies Alone
6 Reason To Believe
7 Murder Scene
8 First Day In Hell
9 Saturnine
10 Dreams Of Retribution
11 My Shadow And I
12 A Fight I Must Win
I did not really like “War Eternal”, but even I am ready to admit that at least it deserves attention. I don’t want to use the term “development” in his respect, as well as in relation to the group as a whole, but there really was something that sank into memory and sounded relatively “fresh” - melodies. Let us go over the fact that these melodies and pop-naphthalene motifs, as a result, settled in my head with a cloying paste, causing dizziness, but “in the land of the blind and the one-eyed king” (c).
Let's not pull the cat by the tail: take “War Eternal”, with a plane on the top we’ll remove almost all the melody, slightly compress and ... everything - “Will to Power” in front of us. It was not enough to pinch the chicken - it was gnawed and given to the audience a pretty, strong skeleton, which would be of use, at best, for decorative purposes. Poking around in these giblets in search of at least something that could justify the appearance of the album, I found only a good instrumental “Saturnine”, the melodic heir to the previous album “Dreams of Retribution”, and “Reason to Believe”, where they finally descended to clean vocals, but only the band’s imagination was enough. But even that is not meat, but tendons. It is hardly useful, and there is no pleasure to eat it on an ongoing basis.
Loomis? Who! Where from? From Nevermore? He can only be condolences, the dude ingloriously repeated the path of Nick’a Cordl’a, which I called the carrier of shells for Amott’a three years ago. The group leader himself, in fact, confirmed in an interview that Loomis was called to the group for beauty: “He’s a great guy, he likes his style, but is too progressive and gloomy.” Of course, it’s better to use your native gloomy and non-progressive semi-finished product over and over again, since the fan base developed over 20 years will swallow everything. In fact, we have a catchy name in the booklet and zero brought ideas to the album.
Metal
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