00:00That's always something I think we all aspire to, is to have a lot of longevity in me.
00:04Arch Enemy, we're coming up for 30 years of Arch Enemy, so it's us, you know, we're hanging in there,
00:10you know.
00:15We can start with an American band called Trouble.
00:19Yeah.
00:19That's been a big influence on us.
00:22Yeah, people probably wouldn't necessarily think of them as an influence on us,
00:26if people know Trouble and think of Arch Enemy,
00:28but a lot of the note choices and the riff styles and some of the heavier groovy riffs have a
00:35bit of a trouble in us.
00:38Early on, I was really into the Dune stuff.
00:42There weren't that many bands, and then it was like St. Vitus, Trouble,
00:47then Candlemas came along in Sweden, which was massive for me.
00:52And then now, of course, then it became a lot more of that.
00:56And that whole genre has, of course, a little stone, a rock, and then all kinds of things that happen
01:02after that.
01:04But yeah, Trouble has always been a band that we've all enjoyed in the band, everybody.
01:08Bands that we've picked are not really the most obvious ones, because, you know, we've also loved Motorhead, Slayer, and
01:14Metallica,
01:15you know, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, you know, all that stuff is like a staple, of course, for Arch Enemy.
01:21But we've been digging a little bit deeper on this one.
01:24And one band is an American palm metal band from the 80s called Vicious Rumors.
01:30And they're often overlooked, I think.
01:32I think there's a riffing style there and the way they do their harmonies and combine speed and melody.
01:40And just the riffs.
01:41Basically, the riffs are insane in that band.
01:44And there's a couple of records that they did for Atlantic records, I think in the early 90s,
01:49the self-titled one, and then the one called Welcome to the Ball.
01:52And those have influenced us a lot.
01:54I think we were talking about Scorpions.
01:56Oh, yeah.
01:59Well, that's a band that's inspired us a lot over the years.
02:03Maybe not the most obvious thing that people would expect, like the power ballads and stuff like that.
02:08But that too, actually.
02:10The picking parts.
02:11Yeah.
02:11I think we just love how they put a song together with a very simple chord, simple melody.
02:18A great lyric.
02:20And they create magic with very few ingredients in a way.
02:26And I think we like that approach.
02:28They also have really good heavy rock stuff.
02:31And there's one of those bands I think they've been doing for like 50 years plus, right?
02:34So they have a lot of psychedelic hard rock to the groovy 80s stuff.
02:42And then they've got other things over there.
02:44And they've got ballads and rockers, you know?
02:46And so that's...
02:48I like how they're not only one sound, you know?
02:52They can rock hard and they can also do soft things.
02:55And both sounds are accepted by their families.
02:58So that's pretty cool.
02:59And those kind of bands, you realize the songs they have, the catalog of songs is just incredible in them.
03:05And that's always something I think we all aspire to, is to have a lot of longevity.
03:09And Arch Enemy, we're coming up for 30 years of Arch Enemy, so you know?
03:14We're hanging in there, you know?
03:16Hopefully we'll have that same kind of trajectory.
03:18It's one of those things that gets more and more difficult to put together a set list for the live
03:23show.
03:23Because we have a lot of songs to choose from now.
03:26The new album is the 12th album, you know?
03:28Yeah, but imagine for Scorpions, it's gonna be really difficult.
03:31So, yeah, Merciful Fate.
03:34This is obviously a very dark, you know, occult, heavy metal sound, you know?
03:38With a mixture of the 70s sound coming into the 80s.
03:43Really inventive, cool riffs.
03:46Lots of interesting guitar parts, drum parts.
03:50And of course, King Diamond's vocals that are just soaring on top.
03:53You know, all different kinds of styles.
03:57And, you know, his voices are just insane on those.
04:00Yeah.
04:00I think Don't Break The Owls.
04:02Belles and Don't Break The Owls.
04:03And of course, the first EP.
04:05Something that's influenced us a lot of as a group.
04:09It's pretty unique music in a way.
04:11Yeah.
04:11You know, it's like they created something that I think is impossible to recreate.
04:16Like, it's just a kind of magic that happened in the studio, I guess.
04:20And yeah, for the time, yeah.
04:21I mean, and they're just one of, they have that style, you know?
04:24So, you know, we'll have like, oh, this is our Slayer.
04:27This is, you know, what we're writing our songs.
04:29This is Slayer part.
04:30And then we go like this muscle fade riff.
04:32So it's, we know what we're talking about when we have that internal dialogue about,
04:39you know, the new song.
04:40So they're definitely there for something.
04:41Yeah.
04:42Another band we discussed actually was a death metal band called Morbid Angel from the States.
04:48And they're another one with this really crazy, this is where Trey has this really warped,
04:55almost backwards sounding riff style.
04:57And that accommodation with the drumming and then David Vincent's vocal and everything was like,
05:04had a big impact on us.
05:06I mean, we didn't know each other at the time when we got into them.
05:08But that was one of the touching stones that we have.
05:12Yeah.
05:13And obviously Pete Sandoval's drumming.
05:17Yeah.
05:17He's, they've all, they've all become like legends now.
05:21Yeah.
05:21We recently saw, what's it called?
05:25Iron Morbid, the new project, when they do the old Morbid Angel stuff and it was just killer.
05:30Yeah.
05:31Really good.
05:40We'll see you next time.
Comments