Haha great review. Reflects my feeling about the album and what the band has become.I hate to admit it because Arch Enemy is what got me in the more agressive side of metal, but it seems like they stuck with the same themes. I guess they could say: "That's what I like about my fans, I keep getting old and they stay the same age. Yes they do, yes they do!"

Completely agree

+1

Lulz, it's funny coz it's true.

Sadly, I agree. They really need to fix it, because it's obviously broken.

It's everything we have heard before, over and over again. And it's true, there are so many downtempo parts that is hard to find something actually heavy and headbangable in there.

So uninteresting. List of disappointments of the year starts now.

One of 2011's worst, by far.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 02.06.2011 at 16:22

One of 2011's worst, by far.

I kind of agreed with the review, the album is forgettable, but Troy the worst album of 2011 is Morbid Angel's Illud Divinum Insanus

I commend you on your ingenious review. Agree with everything that has been said here.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 02.06.2011 at 16:22

One of 2011's worst.

I concur.

Written by Dani5050 on 02.06.2011 at 18:32

I kind of agreed with the review, the album is forgettable, but Troy the worst album of 2011 is Morbid Angel's Illud Divinum Insanus

If you check my list you'll notice I have yet to listen to that. (And I still think Devildriver's "Beast" is the worst I've heard thus far.)

Written by Edmund Fogg on 02.06.2011 at 12:47

Haha great review. Reflects my feeling about the album and what the band has become.I hate to admit it because Arch Enemy is what got me in the more agressive side of metal, but it seems like they stuck with the same themes. I guess they could say: "That's what I like about my fans, I keep getting old and they stay the same age. Yes they do, yes they do!"

I feel the same exact way about the band and their influence on me. I was kind of disturbed how they kept on borrowing very similar riffs, solos, intros and even ideas from older albums. The only two songs which did it for me (unless you include the cover bonus album, which is actually pretty good) were "Under Black Flags we March" and "Thorns in my Flesh". Sure flags sounds like the riff from "My Apocalypse" but the crushing riffs really work in these songs and made me wish they went in this direction. Sure its not classic Arch Enemy and from a creative aspect may be a step backwards but these two were actually pretty good.

Great innovation and great review, this review worth more than the album!

You what the funny part about this review is? I share the exact same sentiments with "Wages of Sin" and everything afterwards. The second Angela jumped on the bandwagon they became a less interesting band.

Not a single song from any album after the departure of Johan Liiva can top Silverwing. Their best years are far behind them, if they even had "best years" to say the least. Yeah, Ravenous, Enemy Within, We Will Rise, etc...are cool anthems...but I feel as if I've outgrown Arch Enemy and their tired themes.

Overall, the band itself needs to completely remake themselves if they want to survive. But on another note, because of "surface level" of their sound they can infinitely tour with Slayer, Hatebreed, etc, etc. They've reached that level of being a commercial metal band that it no longer matters whether or not they have any creative output left. They'll be successful either way, sadly...

Pffhahaha! *Lettuce* give Thryce a big ol' pat on the back for a good review.

(the punz. I appreciate dem)

Written by Cathval on 02.06.2011 at 19:08

You what the funny part about this review is? I share the exact same sentiments with "Wages of Sin" and everything afterwards. The second Angela jumped on the bandwagon they became a less interesting band.

Not a single song from any album after the departure of Johan Liiva can top Silverwing. Their best years are far behind them, if they even had "best years" to say the least. Yeah, Ravenous, Enemy Within, We Will Rise, etc...are cool anthems...but I feel as if I've outgrown Arch Enemy and their tired themes.

Overall, the band itself needs to completely remake themselves if they want to survive. But on another note, because of "surface level" of their sound they can infinitely tour with Slayer, Hatebreed, etc, etc. They've reached that level of being a commercial metal band that it no longer matters whether or not they have any creative output left. They'll be successful either way, sadly...

Angela's era was a different style though, Liiva's was much more melodeath, in the sense it was death metal with melodic choruses etc. I think the first couple of Gossow records were great and Doomsday, while being on a downward spiral, had some worthy moments too.

What a waste of a good review..

Oh dear. I can't stand anything from the Liiva period, and I honestly think this is their best-sounding album to date, although I prefer Doomsday Machine. I have no idea what this review is talking about, but I guess that's the beauty of people being different. Metal is many things.

Great review, Thryce!

Written by demonseed on 02.06.2011 at 19:28

What a waste of a good review..

You'd be surprised about how much a bad album can be inspiring!

Thryce, you awesome son of a bitch you.

Great review, and i have to agree that arch enemy have lost their edge,as well as their originality, over the previous decade. But my opinion will always be that they couldn't have got any better than their first three albums-excellent band in Johan liiva era. Dont get me wrong, angela gossow gave as good as she got, and doomasday machine and anthems of rebellion are great albums to be honest. But i feel the band wrote more creatively pre-2000. But thats just me.

Written by musicalkaratekid on 02.06.2011 at 20:24

Great review, and i have to agree that arch enemy have lost their edge,as well as their originality, over the previous decade. But my opinion will always be that they couldn't have got any better than their first three albums-excellent band in Johan liiva era. Dont get me wrong, angela gossow gave as good as she got, and doomasday machine and anthems of rebellion are great albums to be honest. But i feel the band wrote more creatively pre-2000. But thats just me.

I am with you on this one.

To be Honest i lost all interest in this band since doomsday machine, and im more of an early fan of stigmata and burning bridges, so i like the last Hearse even more than this latter Arch enemy albums.
And Great Review, really enjoyed reading this

It's definitely their weakest with angela...

I have not listened to the album yet, but that's what I expected. Now I will stay from it for some time... There is the new Unexpect waiting to be savored.

I think the album is decent.
Sure its not anything too new, creeative or exciting which would have been nice. but i think itsa solid release nonetheless.

The only thing that im disapointed with is Angelas vocals are not nearly as powerful as previous albums, but that can be expected from screamers a few albums deep.

Otherwise i really enjoy the album.

Rise of the Tyrant is AE at their best in my opinion

Khaos Legions is as cheesy as it gets.

Absolutely true, khaos legions sucks.

Best review ever.

And this is a reasonably popular band, so allot of those sucessfull bands once they have done all their hard work, and released all the good albums, are only in it for the Fun of it, or the Money and Profiteering. Then the Music becomes bullshit, because the band is not doing it FOR THE MUSIC.
They're either slacking off smoking pot, knowing loyal fans will buy the album even if it was called "1 and a half hours of me farting while I tune a banjo", or they're making commericialized mainstream mass produced bull...

I thought Rise of the Tyrant was their best album other than Wages of Sin (masterpiece). Judging by this review, KL might just be worth getting after all. I forgot this CD was even coming out.