Nuclear Blast Americ
2008
We Are The Nightmare
About This Album
Three of the terms that one hears in connection with death metal are "technical death metal," "melodic death metal" and "blackened death metal" -- and all three of them apply to Arsis to some degree on We Are the Nightmare. The material on this 2008 release is decidedly technical; We Are the Nightmare isn't math metal, but it's definitely the type of demanding, often angular material that you aren't going to be able to play if you don't have your chops together (which the members of Arsis obviously do). And Arsis, for all their thrashy, bombastic intensity, are relatively melodic -- not ultra-melodic, but relatively melodic. That brings us to the blackened part, which has a lot to do with lead singer James Malone's extreme vocals. Although one hears some deep, guttural "Cookie Monster" growling (one of death metal's trademarks) on We Are the Nightmare, most of the vocals favor the type of sinister-sounding rasp that black metal is known for. There are no clean vocals on this 40-minute CD, only extreme vocals, and the rasp is much more prominent on We Are the Nightmare than the "Cookie Monster" who has been a big part of death metal since the '80s.
Track List

Disc 1 (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8)

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