Black Earth

Black Earth is the debut album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy, released 12th December 1996 through Wrong Again Records. The album was reissued on 24 April 2007 on Regain Records. During the time of recording Black Earth, Arch Enemy was more of a solo project. Michael Amott wrote all of the songs and played bass guitar on the album. Although Johan Liiva is cited as playing the bass, Michael later stated in an interview that he had it credited that way to make it seem more of a "band effort." Christopher Amott, who was attending music college at the time, only contributed his leads on the album, leaving Michael to record all the rhythm tracks.