The Devil's Advocate: Arch Enemy - Gassow Vs. Liiva

In case you're not in the know, Arch Enemy had a singer before Angela Gassow. Their first three albums are often overlooked by a lot of new fans and it's a shame. From 1996 t0 2000, Johan Liiva fronted the Swedish based band. Arch Enemy released Black Earth, Stigmata and Burning Bridges, three killer albums that have a slightly more raw sound to them than today's Arch Enemy.

Some rather newer fans got a taste of some of the songs from the first three albums on Arch Enemy's latest release, The Root Of All Evil which was re-recordings of some songs from the first three albums with Gassow on vocals. Some older A.E. fans found this to be a bit redundant and/or disrespectful to Liiva. Kind of like Exodus thinking it was necessary to re-record Bonded By Blood with Rob Dukes. Kind of a different situation all together though.