Arch Enemy

[Stand Your Ground]

If anyone is interested their new album is coming out soon!!! May 30th. :D

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[Tablo]

Always been an Arch Enemy fan, even before having any real political alignment. Seems like the band is gathering a more cohesive political nature to it. I read an interview with their current vocalist when she joined earlier on and it didn't seem she had any real political knowledge outside of wanting freedom and opposing authority. Now it seems like the band is taking a more clear stand. That or it is just a random video with anarchist imagery. Either way I'm looking forward to the new album. :ninja::thumbup1:

[LostDesperado]

I recently rediscovered Arch Enemy. They're a good, hard sounding band. I just recently acquired their album "Rise of the Tyrant".

[Fawkes]

I like them. They're not particularly inventive or experimental, but are nonetheless a good metal band. "Yesterday is Dead and Gone" sounds pretty sick. I don't know though, I've always had trouble really believing in bands that preach revolution through the same old instrumentation, structures, and motifs already beaten to death by so many. For me to really feel the conviction the music itself has to be revolutionary, provocative, and subversive, not just the lyrics and imagery. Still a cool band though.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Ah man, once I saw the title, I immediately turned on some Carcass! :cool:

As for Arch Enemy, they're a good band. I never went out of my way to listen to them, but I may have to now.

[Property Is Robbery]

Carcass! :thumbup1:

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I was recently shown this. Now I'm all... "wut?"

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[Tim Finnegan]

Great stuff. Saw them a few months ago (November-ish?), and they put on a really good show. I wouldn't take the video as a manifesto, but it is interesting to see the idea, at least,of militant radicalism gaining increasing currency outside of the usually narrow domain in which it dwells. Seems to tie in nicely with what I think it is fair to say is a process of radicalisation of many of the "youth of today", as the patricians are so fond of calling us.


I like them. They're not particularly inventive or experimental, but are nonetheless a good metal band. "Yesterday is Dead and Gone" sounds pretty sick. I don't know though, I've always had trouble really believing in bands that preach revolution through the same old instrumentation, structures, and motifs already beaten to death by so many. For me to really feel the conviction the music itself has to be revolutionary, provocative, and subversive, not just the lyrics and imagery.
Isn't that rather muddling two different understandings of "revolutionary"? I understand that cultural and political radicalism often go hand in hand, and while that certainly suggests a high degree of mutual compatibility, it doesn't really suggest any essential or universal correlation. I mean, folk music has been home to some of the most consistently radical artists and songs of the last century, and that's a genre that regards tradition with even more reverence than most.

[Ostrinski]

I only liked Burning Bridges by this band.