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extrapenguinUnleash the Archers is a Canadian power metal band formed in 2007. They've released 5 albums and 2 EPs so far. The music goes hard, especially the drums, and the vocals are mostly clean singing from the lead singer, though she occasionally goes into the growl register, and the male band members occasionally contribute backing vocals. While I'm sure there are fans of their first four releases, my personal opinion is they only found their stride with Apex – the lead singer started singing less stridently, and they displayed some excellent lyrical talents by writing a concept album about an immortal in a mountain who can be bound by whomever awakens him. Then they wrote a sequel In Space, Abyss! I own Apex, Abyss, and Explorers, and would recommend people start there, though if you like the more traditional power metal with more growls, it's worth checking out the previous stuff as well.
Albums & EPs in release order:
Behold the Devastation
Demons of the AstroWaste
Defy the Skies (EP)
Time Stands Still
Apex
Explorers (EP)
Abyss
(From Apex. Other absolute bangers from this album include The Coward's Way and Ten Thousand Against One. This one has a cool music video and the lyrics are basically the plot of the album.)
(From Abyss. Other absolute bangers from this album include Abyss, The Wind that Shapes the Land, and Afterlife.)
Albums & EPs in release order:
Behold the Devastation
Demons of the AstroWaste
Defy the Skies (EP)
Time Stands Still
Apex
Explorers (EP)
Abyss
Journey wide they’re spread across the land
They will hide they know what I plan
My sons were born for one purpose only
Their blood my elixir of life
Return them alive, I’ll kill them myself
I’ll open their throats and drink from their skulls
The ritual is very precise
Bring them to me before the planets align
(From Apex. Other absolute bangers from this album include The Coward's Way and Ten Thousand Against One. This one has a cool music video and the lyrics are basically the plot of the album.)
Soul bound
Endlessly forever
Locked between the darkness and the light
Don’t drown
In the swarming, blackened rising
Hold on to humanity and fight
Tormented by the tethering of souls to phantoms that remain
These spectres seem devoid of life but there is something in their eyes
Refuse to see they can’t be saved, I push to pull them from the grave
End their addiction to the thrall once and for all
But who am I to be their saviour, slave to time
When I am doomed to be in chains for all my life?
(From Abyss. Other absolute bangers from this album include Abyss, The Wind that Shapes the Land, and Afterlife.)