Will to Power (Arch Enemy album)

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Will to Power
Cover of Will to Power by Arch Enemy.jpg
Studio album by
Arch Enemy
Released8 September 2017 (2017-09-08)
Recorded2016–2017
Studio
  • Studio Mega (Varberg, Sweden)
  • Sweetspot Satellite (Halmstad, Sweden)
  • Sweetspot (Harplinge, Sweden)
  • Riksmixingsverket (Stockholm, Sweden)
Genre Melodic death metal
Length50:32
Label Century Media
Producer
Arch Enemy chronology
War Eternal
(2014)		Will to Power
(2017)		 Deceivers
(2022)
Singles from Will to Power
  1. "The World Is Yours"
    Released: 14 July 2017
  2. "The Eagle Flies Alone"
    Released: 25 August 2017
  3. "The Race"
    Released: 17 October 2017
  4. "Reason to Believe"
    Released: 7 December 2018
  5. "My Shadow and I"
    Released: 18 March 2022

Will to Power is the tenth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, released on 8 September 2017 via Century Media Records. [1] [2] This is the first album to feature guitarist Jeff Loomis who joined the band in November 2014. [3] It is also the first Arch Enemy album to feature a song with clean singing as lead vocals; the song, "Reason to Believe", is referred to as "their first ever, largely clean-sung power ballad." [4]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Metal Hammer 8/10 [4]
Metal Injection8.5/10 [5]
MetalSucks Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Terrorizer 6/10 [7]

Ross Baker of Terrorizer gave the album a moderate rating, and wrote, "'Will To Power' doesn't see a dramatic stylistic shift from melodic death metal, but Michael Amott and company flex their muscles and experiment a bit on this tenth release." [7]

Accolades

Metal Hammer magazine ranked Will to Power at No. 40 on its list of 100 Best Albums of 2017. [8]

At the 2017 Burrn! magazine awards, the album won Best Album and Best Artwork, and the song "The World is Yours" won Best Tune. [9]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Set Flame to the Night"instrumental
1:18
2."The Race" Alissa White-Gluz
  • Amott
  • Erlandsson
3:15
3."Blood in the Water"Amott
  • Amott
  • Erlandsson
3:55
4."The World Is Yours"Amott
  • Amott
  • Erlandsson
4:53
5."The Eagle Flies Alone [a] "AmottAmott5:15
6."Reason to Believe"Amott
4:47
7."Murder Scene"White-Gluz
  • Amott
  • Erlandsson
3:50
8."First Day in Hell"White-GluzAmott4:48
9."Saturnine"instrumentalErlandsson1:09
10."Dreams of Retribution"Amott
  • Amott
  • C. Amott
  • Erlandsson
6:40
11."My Shadow and I"White-GluzAmott4:05
12."A Fight I Must Win"
  • Amott
  • White-Gluz
  • Amott
  • Erlandsson
6:37
Total length:50:32
Limited edition digipak
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."City Baby Attacked by Rats" (Charged GBH cover)
  • Colin Abrahall
  • Ross Lomas
  • Colin Blyth
  • Andrew Williams
2:48
Total length:53:20
Råpunk (Deluxe box set vinyl EP)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Warsystem" (The Shitlickers cover)Lars Andrén0:54
2."Armed Revolution" (The Shitlickers cover)Andrén0:51
3."Spräckta snutskallar" (The Shitlickers cover)Andrén0:51
4."The Leader (Of the Fuckin' Assholes)" (The Shitlickers cover)Andrén1:02
5."Nitad" (Moderat Likvidation cover)Cliff Lundberg1:06
6."When the Innocent Die" (Anti Cimex cover)
  • Tomas Jonsson
  • Charlie Claeson
  • Joakim Pettersson
  • Mats Skånberg
1:57
7."City Baby Attacked by Rats" (Charged GBH cover)
  • Colin Abrahall
  • Ross Lomas
  • Colin Blyth
  • Andrew Williams
2:48
Total length:9:29
Japanese edition [10]
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
13."Back to Back" (Pretty Maids cover) Ronnie Atkins
  • Ken Hammer
  • Alan Owen
3:22
14."City Baby Attacked by Rats" (Charged GBH cover)Colin Abrahall
  • Ross Lomas
  • Colin Blyth
  • Andrew Williams
2:48
Total length:56:42
Note
  1. ↑ Some versions of the album use the edited version of this song, which cuts out part of the intro, making it a length of 5:00.

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [11] 26
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [12] 6
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [13] 11
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [14] 15
Canadian Albums (Billboard) [15] 80
Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI) [16] 5
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [17] 11
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [18] 2
French Albums (SNEP) [19] 22
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [20] 3
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [21] 13
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ) [22] 10
Scottish Albums (OCC) [23] 24
Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE) [24] 17
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [25] 11
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [26] 5
UK Albums (OCC) [27] 37
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [28] 3
US Billboard 200 [29] 90
US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard) [30] 3
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [31] 15

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