Embrace the Mystery
Embrace the Mystery places Armageddon’s melodic-metal drama around Jeff Scott Soto’s powerful vocal.
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Track List
- Awakening
- The Broken Spell
- Blind Fury
- Worlds Apart
- Cry of Fate
- Illusions Tale
- Moongate Climber
- Embrace the Mystery
- Sleep of Innocence
- Grain of Sand
- Worlds Apart (Iinstrumental Rehearsal)
- The Broken Spell (Instrumental Rehearsal)
- Die with Your Boots On
- Gathering of the Storm
- Burn the Sun
- Stranglehold
- Heart of Ice
- Well of Sadness
- Rainbow Serpent
- Winter Skies
- Final Destination
- Spirit Kiss
- The Contract
- Winter Skies (Demo)
- Sands of Time (Demo)
- Desecration of Souls
Liner Notes
Embrace the Mystery, the second album, appeared in November 2000 on Toy's Factory — again in Japan only. The band had become something else. In place of the debut's harsh death vocals came a melodic singer, Rickard Bengtsson; keyboards thickened, and the sound leaned hard toward power metal. It was what Christopher Amott wanted: a way out of the extreme metal frame.
The line-up is close to a complete change from the debut. Dick Lövgren held the bass from 2000 to 2002. While Arch Enemy were becoming a worldwide concern, Amott used this side project to walk in the opposite direction. That same year he played the guitar solo on "Suburban Me" from In Flames' Clayman. This album and the next stayed available only in Japan for a long time; they did not appear in the United States until Century Media reissued them in 2009.