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Arched Fire: Trust Betrayal
Wormholedeath
Exactly two years ago, Arched Fire made a comeback after decades of silence. The speed metal band, originally founded in the late 80s, finally released their debut album in the summer of 2021, which at the same time cleared the table of the old and made room for the new – although in the case of Arched Fire, even the new material sounded very classic speed metal, and it was not easy to notice the seams of the timelines.
The second long album was released digitally already at the beginning of April, but the physical copy of the album arrived at Desibeli.net much later, but so what, if speed metal works. And it works, as long as you don’t wrinkle your nose in front of very traditional metal sounds. As it should be in the genre, the vocalist sings hard, high and with emotion. More, more and a little more guitars have been added to the tracks, and the cider-dry sounds can’t be accused of galloping after trends, at least.
According to speed’s teachings, straight riffing is also improved with the most curved pieces, in which case the blocks that are calculated to be projected are beveled much closer. For example, Oblivion mumbles its rhythms avoiding bullet-straight lines, the slightly power-driven Artificial Sun uses German-British firepower in the spirit of the holy Halford, and the opening single Fear rocks the stations like Metallica themselves in their youth days.
And will the formula work, will the speed wheels stay on fire for just under 40 minutes? Yes, and I don’t think it’s even hard. Anthrax and Annihilators have been listened to carefully, there’s no doubt about that, but when delicacies like Pestilence and Wings of Chrome pop into the basket, it’s pretty hard to laugh at the excessive traditionality of the sounds.
Mika Roth
archedfire.com 