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Last Updated: 7/7/2009

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City: Halmstad
Country: SE
Signup Date: 6/29/2005

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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 

Category: Music
HUNTERFESTlogo.png Arch Enemy will perform - for the first time in the history of the band - in Poland at the HUNTERFEST 2009.
More information on HUNTERFEST (in Polish) here. SUMMER TYRANNY 2009: 09-July-2009 @ Norway Rock Festival (Norway) 10-July-2009 Rockweekend Kilafors (Sweden) 11-July-2009 @ Rock Harz Open Air (Germany) 12-July-2009 @ Masters Of Rock (Czech Republic) 17-July-2009 @ Uni Rock Festival, Istanbul (Turkey)
 18-July-2009 @ ProRock Festival - Kiev (Ukraine) 23-July-2009 @ Hunterfest (Poland) 24-July-2009 @ Zwarte Cross Festival (The Netherlands) 25-July-2009 Lorca Rock Festival (Spain) 14-August-2009 Bloodstock Open Air (England)
Monday, June 29, 2009 

Current mood:  disappointed
Category: Music

Heavy rain has forced the cancelation of the the first "metal" day at this year's edition of the Rockwave festival, which is being held at Terravibe Park, Malakasa, Greece. Among the bands that were scheduled to perform at today's (Monday, June 29) event were MÖTLEY CRÜE, W.A.S.P., ARCH ENEMY, MONSTER MAGNET, VOIVOD, LAUREN HARRIS and INACTIVE MESSIAH. Michael Amott comments: 'As you can see, a lot of rain has fallen over the beautiful city of Athens and its surroundings these last couple of days! We are disappointed that we couldn't play as planned as we were looking forward to it very much. The good news is that we have booked two headline shows in Greece on the 27th and 28th of November. Something to look forward to - we will see you Greek metal heads again soon!!!'
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 


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The big news in the ARCH ENEMY camp is that Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Testament, Exodus, etc.) has completed the mixing and mastering of the new ARCH ENEMY record, “The Root Of All Evil”. This special release features a selection of completely re-recorded songs from the first three ARCH ENEMY albums, “Black Earth”, “Stigmata” and “Burning Bridges”, and will be released via Century Media Records on September 28th in Europe and October 6th in North America.

Guitarist Michael Amott comments: “This one took some time to get done, despite the fact that the actual songs were already written a good few years ago! The album was recorded at a few different locations locally here in Sweden - produced by ARCH ENEMY, with Daniel Erlandsson (Drums) handling a lot of the engineering. It was then sent to Andy Sneap in England for the mixing/mastering and I simply can’t stop listening to this since I got the final mixes!”

In the light of ARCH ENEMY finding their defining line-up and a bigger worldwide recognition with 2002’s “Wages Of Sin” album, it has been a logical decision to look into updating and upgrading the earlier compositions, to be able to present them in the splendour of a 2009 shape.

Regarding further details of the process, Michael Amott adds: “We basically headed down to our rehearsal studio, got reacquainted with the tunes, picked out our favorites and proceeded to give a breath of new life to those early songs, with the idea to have the possibility to re-add them to the live set and follow up with some touring activity! I’m loving hearing these songs with a fresh new sound and performance, everyone in the band did a killer job on it - especially Angela’s vocal performance is astoundingly intense and brutal and it was also cool to hear Sharlee lay down some great bass tracks on the early songs! The production and mix is crushing and heavy as hell - it really makes these old songs shine – it sounds like a brand new thing!”.

More details on “The Root Of All Evil” will be available in the coming weeks. In the meantime, make sure to catch the band during their intense festival schedule in Europe this Summer and further worldwide activity which sees the band play previously re-scheduled dates in Mexico, appear at Japan’s massive Loud Park festival, visit countries like China, Philippines or Korea and then also do a headline run in Australia with support by Suffocation and label-mates Winds Of Plague. Here are all upcoming confirmed dates:

ARCH ENEMY – “Summer Tyranny 2009”:
29-June-2009 @ Rockwave Festival (Greece)
09-July-2009 @ Norway Rock Festival (Norway)
10-July-2009 @ Rockweekend Kilafors (Sweden)
11-July-2009 @ Rock Harz Open Air (Germany)
12-July-2009 @ Masters Of Rock (Czech Republic)
17-July-2009 @ Uni Rock Festival, Istanbul (Turkey)
18-July-2009 @ ProRock Festival - Kiev (Ukraine)
24-July-2009 @ Zwarte Cross Festival (The Netherlands)
25-July-2009 @ Lorca Rock Festival (Spain)
14-August-2009 @ Bloodstock Open Air (England)

ARCH ENEMY – MEXICAN TOUR AUGUST 2009:
20-August-2009 Mexico City, Mexico @ Circo Volador
22-August-2009 Monterrey, Mexico @ Café Iguana

ARCH ENEMY – ASIAN TOUR OCTOBER 2009:
17-October-2009 @ Loud Park 09, Tokyo (Japan)
18-October-2009 @ Liberty Square - Taipei (Taiwan)
20-October-2009 @ World Trade Center - Manila  (Philippines)
21-October-2009 @ Hitec Auditorium - Kowloon (Hong Kong)
23-October-2009 @ The Star Live House - Beijing (China)
25-October-2009 @ Venue TBA - Seoul (Republic Of Korea)
28-October-2009 @ Senayan Tennis Indoor Stadium - Jakarta (Indonesia)

ARCH ENEMY – AUSTRALIAN TOUR NOVEMBER 2009:
01-November-2009 @ Capitol, Perth*
03-November-2009 @ Fowlers Live, Adelaide*
05-November-2009 @ The Forum, Melbourne**
06-November-2009 @ The Roundhouse, Sydney**
07-November-2009 @ The Hifi, Brisbane**
* with Suffocation / ** with Suffocation & Winds Of Plague

ARCH ENEMY online:
http://www.archenemy.net
http://www.myspace.com/archenemy





Friday, June 05, 2009 

Current mood:Japanese!
Category: Music
ARCH ENEMY will perform on October 17th at this year's installment of the Loud Park festival, set to take place October 17-18 at Makuhari Messe, a convention center in Japan located in the western region of Chiba Prefecture, close to Tokyo. Michael Amott comments: 'We're honored that ARCH ENEMY can once again be a part of Japans premier Heavy Metal event! The shows we've done at Loud Park in past years have been very special. I truly wish every Metal fan could experience this festival - it really is something else! This year will have an awesome vibe as usual I'm sure!' 'By October we'll have a new studio recording released worldwide, and the set we do at LOUD PARK 09 in Japan will reflect that of course! The title and full details of this album we've been making in somewhat secretive, or at least in a low key manner will be made official very soon...' 'We are in the process of finalizing more shows in this part of the world (Australia has already been announced earlier this week). We'll be playing a few locations in the Far East that are new for Arch Enemy - we'll be confirming and announcing live shows over the next days/weeks.'
The LOUD PARK 09 festival billing is shaping up as follows: JUDAS PRIEST SLAYER ROB ZOMBIE MEGADETH ARCH ENEMY FAIR WARNING NAPALM DEATH OUTRAGE POISON THE WELL LAZARUS A.D. For more information, visit www.loudpark.com. LP.jpg
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 

Category: Music
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ARCH ENEMY return to Australia for a phenomenal headlining tour to demonstrate to metal heads here what they do best...delivering pure sonic force and ripping us apart with their stunning brand of metal!
These melodic extreme metal genre-leaders have become a synonym for success, hard work and pure f**king metal! The stunning chart entries of their last two albums “Doomsday Machine” (2005) and “Rise Of The Tyrant” (2007, charted in over a dozen countries!) have allowed the band to celebrate another peak of their already stellar career. Now, ARCH ENEMY proudly showcase their current strength and musical brilliance by releasing a breathtaking live document of their “Rise Of The Tyrant” touring cycle. Witness it first hand, the sheer brilliance of these melodic metal titans! 

Arch Enemy guitarist/songwriter Michael Amott comments: "We're totally looking forward returning to Australia, you know we've missed the fans and the great weather! Although the tours in '06 (w/ Megadeth) and '07 (w/ Machine Head) were amazing in many ways, we haven't played a full headline tour in Australia since our first visit back in 2005. So this is long over due and we are more than ready to attack your shores once again! We can't wait to give you the full 'Arch Enemy Heavy Metal Mayhem' experience! And we already know you - the fans, will bring it...Aussie style! See you all in November!" 

In direct support will be New York death metal legends SUFFOCATION. Their fusion of technicality, groove and sheer unrelenting brutality has been imitated but never quite duplicated. And now, with the release of SUFFOCATION’s Nuclear Blast debut “Blood Oath”, their legacy of unrelenting and unique heaviness continues for perhaps the genres greatest band! 

WINDS OF PLAGUE prepare to unleash their wrath across the Australia with their sophomore release. The stunning slab of brutality entitled “Decimate The Weak” does exactly that with its razor sharp riffs and sheer intensity backed with a monsoon of angst and inner demons that is just waiting to be expelled on stage. 


ARCH ENEMY with guests Suffocation and Winds Of Plague performing at: 

Nov 1st - Capitol, Perth*, 18+
Nov 3rd - Fowlers Live, Adelaide*, Lic/ AA
Nov 5th - The Forum, Melbourne, 18+
Nov 6th - The Roundhouse, Sydney, Lic/ AA
Nov 7th - The Hifi, Brisbane, 18+ 

*Arch Enemy and Suffocation Only


TICKETS ON SALE FROM THUR JUNE 4th! 

Perth - www.moshtix.com, 78 Records , Mills Records




Brisbane - www.hifi.com.au/brisbane, Rockinghorse Records, Moshpit Music
Monday, June 01, 2009 

Current mood: ¡¡¡ Mexican ¡¡¡
Arch Enemy will be performing on the 22nd of August 2009 in Monterrey, Mexico @ Café Iguana. 
On the 20th of August, Arch Enemy will play their rescheduled show in Mexico City, Mexico @ Circo Volador. 

The original show date (May 8th) was postponed due to restrictions put on concerts by the Mexican government following the H1N1 virus flu outbreak in early May.
  
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For more ticket information etc go here
Sunday, May 24, 2009 

Current mood:Shreddy
Category: Music
Dean Guitars Artist Michael Amott (Arch Enemy/Carcass) interviewed while on tour with Carcass in the U.S. earlier this year. Michael discusses his new Signature Tyrant V series and signature "Tyrant" DMT pickup made in the USA.  


 


"Tyrant V" order information here


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Sunday, May 10, 2009 

Category: Music
The recently postponed ARCH ENEMY México D.F. show is now rescheduled for August 20, 2009 @ Circo Volador. For more ticket information etc go here mexico.gif
Wednesday, May 06, 2009 
Michael Amott comments on Latin America tour and postponed Mexico D.F. show

 


“We’ve had an amazing run of shows down here in South America. We’ve played Venezuela and Colombia for the first time with Arch Enemy and it’s been really killer playing for the fans there, these people live and breathe Metal... It’s inspiring” 


"Also returning to Brazil and Argentina again has been great, the fans in this part of the world are so intense, they’re almost louder than the PA…it’s so much fun!” 


"Tonight we play Santiago, Chile - I'm sure it'll be a blast, we always have a good time playing here. And as things have turned out, it will unfortunately be the last show on this Latin American tour..." 


“Sadly, we've had to cut the tour short, the May 8 Mexico D.F show has been postponed due to the flu chaos and the restrictions that have been put on shows in Mexico D.F over the next days/weeks. We are obviously not happy about this – but it is out of our hands. We are looking at quickly re-scheduling the show and return to Mexico in August. The 2,500 tickets for the sold-out Mexico D.F show are valid for the new date - so hold on to them” 


More information about this situation can be found in Spanish here.

Monday, April 27, 2009 

Christopher Amott has conducted a phone interview with Tarmanta.com yesterday - read it here:

http://www.tarmanta.com/v1/entrevistas-leer.php?id=51


And here is the one with Sharlee D'Angelo:


http://www.tarmanta.com/v1/entrevistas-leer.php?id=50



And the infamous Mr. Michael Amott has been interrogated as well:


http://www.tarmanta.com/v1/entrevistas-leer.php?id=11