Hard 20 |
Arch Enemy"Anthems of Rebellion" Teutonic uberhotty Angela Gossow is getting to sound more and more like Carcass's Jeff Walker every day. Maybe it's the ruboff of main squeeze and Arch Enemy gunslinger Mike Amott; at any rate, her juxtaposed growls and spiked pulchritude whip up a formula for success. Anthems of Rebellion comes coached in awkward pressspeak, letting us know, according to the one-piece, that "a rebel is someone inclined to resist authority." No shit. Seriously though, as a foray through well-scoured paths of resistance to something, as long as it's fuelled by badass twin guitars and spat out by someone who looks and moves like Gossow, this album kills -- check out the devastating "We Will Rise," as drummer Daniel Erlandson detonates his kit and the Brothers Amott make like Iron Maiden. "Dead Eyes See No Future" evokes the bruised and battered militia of Metallica's Master of Puppets disc, and "Instinct" floats in on a layer of boiling synth as Gossow bites and chews off every word: "The more I see -- the less I believe; the more I hear -- the less I care." Maybe so, but the more you see and hear of the Enemy, the better they look and sound. File this with Napalm Death's Scum and Sepultura's Roots, get yerself a black armband and go fuck up the system -- Now. |