The album featured tracks from the band's first three albums that were re-recorded with current singer Angela Gossow. In 2009, the band looked back to its older material with The Root of All Evil. The album would be Arch Enemy's most successful to date, and they followed up the release by heading out on tours with Swedish metal giants Opeth and Dark Tranquillity. The band then released its seventh album, Rise of the Tyrant, in 2007. Former Tiamat member Fredrik Åkesson replaced him, though the two would switch places again two years later, with Åkesson leaving the band to join Opeth, and Amott taking back his spot on guitar. The album Doomsday Machine landed in July of 2005 just as guitarist Christopher Amott announced he was leaving the band. The EP Dead Eyes See No Future was released by the end of the year and featured a mix of cover versions and live tracks. Wages of Sin from 2001 found Johan Liiva departing and replaced by Angela Gossow.Īfter touring extensively across Europe and Japan, the band returned to the studio and released Anthems of Rebellion in 2003. More personnel turnover ensued, as Mercyful Fate reunion bassist Sharlee D'Angelo (also formerly of Witchery and Dismember) joined them for 1999's Burning Bridges, which also featured the return of Erlandsson.

For their second album, 1998's Stigmata, Armageddon bassist Martin Bengtsson took over those duties from vocalist Liiva, while Armageddon drummer Peter Wildoer sat in for Erlandsson. Despite enduring multiple shifts in personnel - founding guitarist Michael Amott remains the sole constant member – the band has continued to thrive, issuing late-period death metal opuses like War Eternal (2014), Will to Power (2017), and Deceivers (2022).Īrch Enemy's charter lineup featured Carcass guitarist Michael Amott and bassist/vocalist Johan Liiva (who were both originally from the death metal band Carnage), and drummer Daniel Erlandsson (Eucharist) they released their debut album, Black Earth, in 1996. Emerging in 1995, Arch Enemy hit its stride in the early 2000s with Doomsday Machine (2005) and Rise of the Tyrant (2007), both of which charted internationally. The band takes a straight-ahead approach to death metal reminiscent of Entombed or late-period Carcass, blending catchy, classic-style metal riffs with crushing grooves for an intense yet accessible sound. Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal supergroup with ties to Carcass, Armageddon, Carnage, Mercyful Fate, Spiritual Beggars, the Agonist, Nevermore, and Eucharist.

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