Will to Power (Arch Enemy album)

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. This is the first album to feature guitarist Jeff Loomis who joined the band in November 2014. 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."

Reception

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."

Accolades

magazine ranked Will to Power at No. 40 on its list of 100 Best Albums of 2017.
At the 2017 Burrn! magazine awards, the album won Best Album and Best Artwork, and the song "The World is Yours" won Best Tune.

Track listing

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Personnel

Arch Enemy

Alissa White-Gluz – vocals, lyrics handwriting
Michael Amott – lead & rhythm guitars, production
Jeff Loomis – lead guitar
Sharlee D'Angelo – bass
Daniel Erlandsson – drums, keyboards, programming, production, guitar and bass engineering

Additional musicians

Ulf Janson – strings arrangement, conducting
Henrik Janson – strings arrangement, conducting
Stockholm Session Strings – strings performance
* Ulf Forsberg, Christian Bergqvist, Per Öman, Ulrika Jansson, Bo Söderström, Torbjörn Bernhardsson – violin
* Tony Bauer, Riikka Repo – viola
* Johanna Sjunnesson – cello
Jens Johansson – keyboards
Christopher Amott – keyboards and clean guitars

Technical personnel

Alex Reisfar – front cover artwork
Costin Chioreanu – booklet artwork, booklet layout
Katja Kuhl – photography
Tom Couture – photography
Jens Bogren – mixing, mastering
Johan Örnborg – drum engineering
Tobias Strandvik – drum tech
Rickard Bengtsson – lead guitar engineering
Staffan Karlsson – vocal engineering and production
Linn Fijal – string engineering