Stranger, do you believe in danger, do not be afraid of a bruiser? Pain is better than nothing to bare, do you accept my dare?

ARKANGEL - "IS YOUR ENEMY" ("G.S.R."; CD):

Hell Yeahr, Belgium's finest are fuckin' back!!! Okay, okay, they were never really away and with this record they are already back since 2008, but it's still the newest record of them and so I do see no problems with reviewing it here still today!!! So, enough said to this topic, right now back to the review: ARKANGEL finally were back with this record, and when it comes to me this 'finally' had got some 'double meaning', 'cause: 1.) The last record of them, even this one isn't 'brandnew' anyhow by itself, came out before quite a long while (I'm talking about the evil smasher "I HOPE YOU DIE BY OVERDOSE"); and: 2.) I really lost them totally out of my personal focus when it comes to music, and I can't tell ya any reason at all why this happened, 'cause I always liked them very, very much. Maybe the reason was that I was totally fed up with this trendy teeny clichè Metal bullshit crap that's today usually called Metalcore, so that I decided not to listen to this genre anyway anyhow any longer. And what shall I say: This generalized opinion and decision was a huge mistake when it comes to the mighty ARKANGEL. Because they're still today what they always used to be right from the start or my start with them with "WITHIN THE WALLS OF BABYLON" and other outshining stuff of them, and so they are still just a FORCE, for sure!!! This one here is a bitter and really evil, through and through authentically and beautifully non-trendy Beast of very extreme, brutal, ugly (in a positive way, how-ever 'ugly' may can be a positive thing at all, haha;-)...) and harsh musick between nihilistic metallic Hardcore, how it was breed in the 1990's (just remember those brilliant acts like fantastic INTEGRITY and ALL OUT WAR), bonecracking and skullsmashing Thrash Metal, between Bay Area Tharsh Metal like TESTAMENT and of course the legendary SLAYER, and some plane roller Death Metal the BOLT THROWER way of style and sound. This are the main ingredients out of that this very sympathic guys from Belgium do compose their breath-taking musick, that they unleash like the biblical Apocalypse on this our putrifying soil. The intensity, the passion, and the emotionality are really reaching incredible altitudes, like you don't know them to be reached by many other bands (which genre ever). The record really comes alive because of the damn great abilities of the guys in ARKANGEL to play their instruments, of the sheer fantastic and very clever and damn grapping songwriting, the really great and very varying lyrics, and of course especially of the incredibly intense and extreme, croaky yet brute, very characteristic screamed vocals that are really pushing the songs- every single one as well as the whole record, to point that very clearly out at this point here- without mercy onwards to their individual emotional climax. Just breath-taking and that damn inspired, just great!!! And yes, of course, perfect brutality!!! Totally without any bullshit clichès, no matter what kind this clichès may be at all, totally free of any trends, just pure unique and fantastic gold in the form of hard and extreme brutal and emotional intense musick!!! Great!!! On top of it we do get a huge load of really damn great lyrics, a fantastic artwork, and all music is coming in a hard, noisy, and just damn good production sound, and yes, if you have the chance to watch ARKANGEL live then fuckin' do it, 'cause they are also just an outstanding live band. First class band, first class record, point and fact!!! Get it!!! "THIS IS HOW WE SEE THE WORLD, BURNING FOREVER!!!", and that's still damn true!!! (10 of 10 points)

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Now you still get a video of them of their great song "DAMNED FOREVER", the opener of this reviewed record. You just see the cover of the album shown while the song is playing, but how-ever, so you should have the time to concentrate more on the great song!!! The lyrics are also pure gold, but it's pretty late already and I'm really fuckin' tired, so I won't give them to ya currently, but maybe I will add them to this post in the next time or so, if I don't forget about it, time will tell. So here comes the video, enjoy it!!!

Yes, and I'm a busy but also nice and friendly guy;-), yeahr, so here come the yesterday for you announced lyrics to the ARKANGEL song "DAMNED FOREVER". Yehp, so here we go:

ARKANGEL - "DAMNED FOREVER"

The nation is ill

Rats running around

Men against each other

Crows flying in town

As the sun seems to move over sinland

Some still believe in a better day

Cold is the heart of earth, it's calling upon the end

Fair or unfair that's the way it is over here

Demise is in the air

I feel it in every breath

This air that makes me sick

It brings our people to be damned forever

Evil power is armed against us

Standing our back against the wall

Evil power is armed against us

Always unlucky but come back for more

It bring our people to be damned forever

Lust, envy, apathy, greed

It brings our people to be damned forever

This air that makes me sick

It brings our people to be damned forever

(ARKANGEL - "DAMNED FOREVER"; taken for the ARKANGEL record "IS YOUR ENEMY" released in 2008 by "G.S.R. Records")

ARKANGEL - "DAMNED FOREVER"