AMARANTHE

Manifest NUCLEAR BLAST Gargantuan-sounding Swedes pull out yet more stops AMARANTHE HAVE BEEN in a state of perpetual motion since 2014’s experimental juncture, Massive Addictive. The Swedes have sometimes found themselves inaccurately lumped in with Europe’s symphonic fare, but other than their penchant for grandiosity, and singer Elize Ryd’s Nightwish connections (she infamously stepped in for ex-Nightwish vocalist Anette Olzon at a gig in 2012), the association is specious. Instead, Amaranthe have spent the last half a decade gradually augmenting a divisive yet vivid blend of power metal, pop and euphoric EDM with every album, eventually nailing a skyscraper-sized sound on 2018’s Helix. Having carved their own niche, Amaranthe seem content to bed into it for a while rather than continuing to chip away at the rockface, and Manifest picks up where Helix left…

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Metal Hammer UK (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2020

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