At this time he began writing albums under the name ARMAGEDDON. In this context, he is known for his tastefully technical guitar work and memorably emotive playing style.Īfter garnering his early success, Christopher had the desire to express himself on a personal level in the same genre. He said, "I'm gonna continue to be very active in music, working with all kinds of styles - this does not rule out metal."ĪRCH ENEMY recruited American guitarist Nick Cordle ( ARSIS) to replace Christopher.Ĭhristopher Amott started his career in music in 1995 as a founding creative force and guitarist in ARCH ENEMY. Heavy, melodic, technical, and groovy, this is creative metal songwriting with one foot in deep in the classics and and one eye gazing towards the distant future.Īmott's latest solo album, "Impulses", can be purchased directly from his music store.Īmott in March 2012 issued a statement explaining that he left ARCH ENEMY to pursue his solo career.
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Together they have once again conjured up the force that is ARMAGEDDON.ĭue later in the year, "Captivity & Devourment" consists of 10 awe-inspiring and ingeniously crafted songs, full of devastating riffs, soaring guitar leads and fist-pumping choruses. The band is based out of New York City, and has brought unto itself a crushing lineup of musicians. Two more full-length efforts followed, "Embrace The Mystery" in 2000 and "Three" in 2003, both featuring different lineups and different musical directions, with Amott as the sole remaining original member.ĪRMAGEDDON is now resurrected in its most powerful form. So we have been treated with the title track of Armageddon’s first album in 12 years planned to be released later in 2014.The official lyric video for "Captivity & Devourment", the title track of the new album from ARMAGEDDON, the band led by former ARCH ENEMY guitarist Christopher Amott, can be seen below.ĪRMAGEDDON first came to life in Sweden in 1997 as a studio project, with the release of "Crossing The Rubicon", a sci-fi themed concept album. Heavy, melodic, technical, and groovy: this is creative metal songwriting with one foot in deep in the classics and and one eye gazing towards the distant future. The new album CAPTIVITY & DEVOURMENT consists of 10 awe-inspiring and ingeniously crafted songs, full of devastating riffs, soaring guitar leads and fist pumping choruses. What a great one in the end of this song. Why am I so enthusiastic about “Captivity & Devourment” then? Because it is one hell of return to his melodic death metal roots! The current line-up of Armageddon features the unknown Matt Hallquist on vocals and features Amott’s fast riffing and captivating solos of old. On his two solo albums, Follow Your Heart (2010) and Impulses (2012), Amott experiments even further away from metal, but still demonstrates he is a much underrated guitar player. While these two latest albums contain musically brilliant riffs, I never got into the power metal-oriented vocals. On Armageddon’s last effort Three (2002) Christopher was even handling the vocals himself. However, the successor Embrace The Mystery (2000) showed a sudden change to a more power metal sound. He released a very good melodic death album Crossing The Rubicon in 1997. Since the inception of Arch Enemy Christopher Amott was also busy with his side project Armegeddon.
Since then he moved to the United States as his new base of operations. He left the band in 2005 to return in 2007, and leaving it again in 2012. Later they founded Arch Enemy with which they had global success. Christopher started playing guitar inspired by his older brother who played in the legendary Carcass at that time. Let me provide a little bit more background on Michael Amott’s 8 years younger brother. Armageddon presents us a lyric video for the song “Captivity & Devourment” and it is awesome for many reasons.
Until two days ago a video popped up on YouTube. So is anyone wondering what Christopher Amott has been up to since he left Arch Enemy in 2012? He said he wanted to concentrate on his other project Armageddon, but it has been quiet ever since.
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