Burning Bridges (Arch Enemy Album)
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''Burning Bridges'' is the third studio album by Swedish
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Arch Enemy Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band, originally a Supergroup (music), supergroup from Halmstad, formed in 1995. Its members were in bands such as Carcass (band), Carcass, Armageddon (Swedish band), Armageddon, Carnage (band), Carna ...
. It is the first Arch Enemy album to feature Sharlee D'Angelo on bass and the last studio recording to feature vocalist
Johan Liiva Johan Patrik Mattias Liiva (born 18 November 1970) is a Swedish extreme metal vocalist, most widely recognized as the founding vocalist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as a former member of Carnage (band), Carnage, Furbowl and No ...
, as well as the last album to feature a male vocalist to date. The music here showcases the band's wide interpretation of the
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genre to include portions of
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,
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. A music video was released for the song "The Immortal". The album was reissued on 25 May 2009. Featuring original vocalist
Johan Liiva Johan Patrik Mattias Liiva (born 18 November 1970) is a Swedish extreme metal vocalist, most widely recognized as the founding vocalist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as a former member of Carnage (band), Carnage, Furbowl and No ...
, the reissue has a new layout, remastered sound, packaging and bonus tracks. It also contains original artwork, liner notes by Johan Liiva and a track-by-track commentary by guitarist Michael Amott.


Reception

''Burning Bridges'' was well received by critics. Steve Huey of
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praised the album, writing:
"... having honed a potent blend of classic-style death metal, melodic twin-guitar leads à la the new wave of British heavy metal, touches of prog metal and of grindcore courtesy of later Carcass or Napalm Death, and just plain solid riff writing. ''Burning Bridges'', their third effort, consolidates the gains made on its predecessor ''Stigmata'', establishing Arch Enemy as a dependable force and one of the better bands working death metal territory as the '90s drew to a close."
Nathan Robinson of Metal Rules was surprised at the amount of fast material, although there are no blast beats, and praised the singer
Johan Liiva Johan Patrik Mattias Liiva (born 18 November 1970) is a Swedish extreme metal vocalist, most widely recognized as the founding vocalist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as a former member of Carnage (band), Carnage, Furbowl and No ...
stating that he "offers more variety this time, moving between his classic guttural belches to higher, blackened screeches. He truly delivers an impressive vocal performance!" He later highlights the songs "Silverwing", "The Immortal" and "Seed of Hate". ''Archaic Magazine''s Ron Salden also praised Liiva's vocals and the production. Salden states that "they took the best of their first 2 albums and ''Burning Bridges'' is the amazing result!" Sean Palmerston of ''
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'' writes that "the eight tracks contained within stand-up quite nicely with recent releases from The Haunted and Witchery as some of the best Swedish metal in recent times." Paul Schwarz of '' Chronicles of Chaos'' praised the songs highlighting "Pilgrim". He wrote: "What I love most, though, is the way Arch Enemy slip between the two different feels. "Pilgrim" begins with a hugely melodic, very heavy metal, lead/harmony part, but when Johan Liiva's crushing vocals enter, so does a heavy, percussive, death metal sounding verse riff, then, when the chorus comes in, the two opposites are expertly combined." Critics Ron Salden and Paul Schwarz stated that "this album will surely be one of the best releases in this year if not the best!" and that Arch Enemy "managed to pool their considerable talents and emerge with one of the year's best albums", respectively.


Track listing


Personnel

Personnel credits adapted from the album's liner notes.


Arch Enemy

*
Johan Liiva Johan Patrik Mattias Liiva (born 18 November 1970) is a Swedish extreme metal vocalist, most widely recognized as the founding vocalist of melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, as well as a former member of Carnage (band), Carnage, Furbowl and No ...
− vocals * Michael Amott − guitars, production *
Christopher Amott Christopher Amott (born 23 November 1977) is a Swedish guitarist, younger brother of Michael Amott and founding member of the metal bands Arch Enemy (band), Arch Enemy and Armageddon (Swedish band), Armageddon. He is most recently the former gui ...
− guitars * Sharlee D'Angelo − bass * Daniel Erlandsson − drums


Production

* Fredrik Nordström − producer, engineer, keyboards *
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on "Burning Bridges" * Göran Finnberg – mastering * Ulf Horbelt – re-mastering * Anna Sofi Dahlberg – artwork, photography, layouts * Tony Hunter – band photography * Adde – band photography on page 16 * Media Logistics GmbH – additional layout * Philipp Schulte – product coordination


Charts


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