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ARCH ENEMY Deceivers By Andrew Depedro, Ottawa Corespondent Thursday, August 11, 2022 @ 10:26 AM
"Our last concert was December 15, 2019," recalls band founder and guitarist Michael Amott. "So then we took a year off, because we'd been in everyone's faces for a while, and we thought we'd start writing a new album and start recording it at the end of 2020...and that's what we did! In January 2020, me and Daniel (Erlandsson, drums), went over to Mexico and rented a place for a couple of weeks. It was on the beach, which was great, but we turned the living room into a little makeshift demo studio, with a couple of guitars and programmed drums. It was just nice to take time out and get away from everything. We did quite a lot of demoing there, but then the pandemic hit. I was stuck in Sweden, as was Daniel, so we continued writing. There weren't really many restrictions in Sweden, we didn't have lockdowns like most of the world, so it was kind of easy to meet up and keep working on the music." Which they did, but there was still the matter of geography and different approaches to the pandemic elsewhere that had also delayed the contributions to the band’s two North American-born members.
And done it eventually became, assisted in part with individual releases of several tracks throughout the spring during its recording, starting with the belligerent fury of recent single "Deceiver, Deceiver" and the dramatic, viciously melodic "House Of Mirrors" followed by the lengthy yet fast-paced visceral crush of “Handshake With Hell” featuring some of cleanest-sounding vocals in the band’s career, Deceivers is the sound of ARCH ENEMY at the top level. With the duelling riff work of Loomis and Amott at its nadir and White-Gluz’ vocals sounding as powerful as ever, there is not a single opportunity to thrash out on this album that goes missing. Even on deeper tracks such as “In The Eye Of The Storm” and “Spreading Black Wings”, Alissa puts more of her own indelible signature on her vocals while channeling the raw punk-sounding passion and savage realism of her predecessors, Johan Liiva and Angela Gossow respectively.
The result is a sharper and more ferocious ARCH ENEMY than we have heard before, and despite the album moniker, Deceivers never tries to disguise itself or lead anyone on about its place on metal’s cutting edge in an environment it’s otherwise conditioned itself to adapting to while helping to hammer home those metal hooks with more intensity than ever.
5.0 Out Of 5.0
https://www.archenemy.net/en/
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