HEAVY MAGAZIN April 08
by Jorg Schultz

"After a not very representative intro The Italian metal-core brigade Arcadia (living in Los Angeles), directly from the first track "She's Got a Knife" shows how a band like this should move. If on one hand they're direct in your teeth, on the other they're full of intricate melodies.
Here as also in "Kissing Cyanide" we see changes from the so called "call-and-response" passages to very strong musical accents. With "Coaguleted and Almost Forgotten" we also go a step on, while on "Ravens and Dove" we really touch the borderlines of the genre, but you know, this is the single.
This is a level you can hardly keep and sincerely I am impressed each time!
Vote= 10/10

HEAVY-METAL.DE February 08
by xxxxxxx

"does Europe come from America...or vice-versa?"

In February we finally received from Point Music/Valery Records this 13track release.
To your ears it sounds like good old cool metalcore...full of cliche'? Na,dudes,it's really really sharp-edged and very well structured.
With no pause, so groovy and hard at the same time!
Here we play with feeling,and you can hear it in any tone, but that's not hard to bear.
It's nowdays about a decade Arcadia is here and there on the scene. " Italian Bastard Core" these 4 guys named their sound.
And so it is.
This last album of the Italians, who actually chose Los Angeles as their base, is something you have to surely listen to. In any case.
Briefly:This is for those who love to take some risk and to pass over the same old standards. Because you don't find this every day.
I throw 8 bombs out of 10 for them!!

FFM-ROCK.DE February 08
by xxxxxxxx

Okay,Okay, here we have an Italian band which was formed in the United States. And from there with their "Italian Bastard Core" they want to conquer the world. Even if I have to say their music is kinda difficult I have to admit one thing: it's fucking bastard! And this being bastard includes good ideas, good melodies and a good voice (or screaming, as you want) and other shit. Back to the band, these 4 Italians who in '98 recorded their first demo "Trust" with which they were already creating a personal sound. The response of the scene was very good and this brought them to sign for the label NoBrain, and one year later they released their debut album "Synth" and toured here and there in their country. After "Trip to the Sun", a first American tour followed, as a new album followed too: " Fracture Concrete". After the tour the band decided to settle in Los Angeles and after some years of hard work, here is the last album, "Cold Cold Bodies". Briefly, it's a very interesting album with very good metalcore songs like "She's got a Knife" (ehi what a punch!), "Kissing Cyanide", "Coagulated and Almost Forgotten", "Ravens and Doves" (the video of the song is included in the cd) and "Oxygen and a Very Good Pill". Those were just some example from an album which convinced me.