Arch Enemyn Alissa White-Gluz: ”Rima on ehdottomasti korkealla seuraavaa albumia varten”
Ruotsalais/kanadalaisen metalliyhtye Arch Enemyn jäsenet vierailivat hiljattain Spark TV:n videohaastattelussa keskustelemassa tulevasta Wacken Open Airissa kuvatusta DVD:stään sekä tulevaisuuden suunnitelmista seuraavan albumin suhteen. DVD:n nauhoittamista Wackenissa yhtyeen jäsenet perustelivat seuraavasti:
Alissa White-Gluz (vocals): ”Well, just a few days ago, we played Wacken [Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany], and we filmed the entire thing to make a DVD that will come out next spring. So it’s gonna be a live DVD with lots of extra material in there, just so people can experience ARCH ENEMY live, even if they haven’t had a chance to come see us yet.”
Michael Amott (guitar): ”Yeah, I think this is the perfect album cycle to document. It’s a fresh new ARCH ENEMY, and we just spent two years on the road or more, and, yeah, we just wanna put it out there kind of as a document of this time. And the show at Wacken was really special as well. We put a lot of effort into the production and had our biggest show to date. And that’ll be the main part of the DVD, I guess, but there’s gonna be a lot of other stuff as well, and it’ll be like a live album, DVD, Blu-ray and all that stuff. We have a lot of other cool shows filmed as well, and parts of those might very well be a part of the DVD. But, you know, Wacken was just a great opportunity; it’s the biggest heavy metal festival in the world.”
Kysyttäessä millaisessa mallissa seuraavan albumin kirjoittaminen tällä hetkellä on kertoivat bändin jäsenet seuraavaa:
”Michael: ”Yeah, there’s plenty of ideas floating around, and there’s even some simple demos and stuff like that, but we haven’t really seriously gotten into the songwriting process yet. But there’s a lot of ideas. But we’ve been spending so much time on the road, and we’re not really the kind of band that writes music on the road. I mean, we might come up with a little riff idea or a melody, or something like that, or a lyrical idea, but it’s easier to put it together at home when you take some specific, dedicated time to write and put together music. It’s a different kind of focus that you need, I think. You wake up in a different city every day, and it’s a different life, and it’s a little bithard to focus on things like that.”
Jeff Loomis (guitar): ”I think the writing process is gonna be awesome between us. It’s just like Mike said — we really haven’t had a lot of time to sit down together yet, but I think that time is gonna be coming soon.”
Kysyttäessä millaista materiaalia on luvassa seuraavaksi kertoi Alissa White-Gluz seuraavaa:
”I think that for all of us, with any new album, or even just with any show, it’s always a challenge to do better than the last time. And I think that we all love ’War Eternal’ and it’s always gonna be super special to us, but we still wanna do better this time. It’s just a matter of always keeping very, very high standards and being critical on yourself but in a constructive way, so that you can always produce good music and good performances. I don’t think any of us are complacent when it comes to the quality of music that we’ve put out. I don’t think we have any specific ideas in mind for things that we have to achieve within the album, but we have a really strong lineup here that’s capable of putting together a really solid album. So we’re all pretty excited about it… Let’s not forget also that we have Jeff here for the writing process of this album, which we didn’t have with ’War Eternal’, so right there we have a whole new world to explore. So that’s pretty exciting too.”
Yhtyeen settilista Wacken Open Airissa oli seuraava:
Intro: Khaos Overture
1. Yesterday Is Dead and Gone
2. War Eternal
3. Ravenous
4. Stolen Life
5. My Apocalypse
6. You Will Know My Name
7. Bloodstained Cross
8. Under Black Flags We March
9. As the Pages Burn
10. Dead Eyes See No Future
11. Avalanche
12. No Gods, No Masters
13. We Will Rise
14. Nemesis