Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz and Michael Amott were recently interviewed while on the 2017 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise. During the chat, they were asked about the band’s upcoming album, which Amott said is “written” and “partially recorded.”
Amott said the following:
“The new album is written. It’s partially recorded. Right now, Alissa living in Canada and I’m in Sweden, we’ve been e-mailing files and stuff to each other. I’d send her a demo, and then she’d put vocals on that in her home studio, sends it back, and I say, ‘Great.’ You know, it’s just been kind of like that — working a bit separately. And after this cruise, we’re actually gonna get together in Sweden at some point and… you know, there’s a lot of stuff left to do — all the guitars and vocals and bass.”
They were also asked about the effort’s musical direction and vocalist White-Gluz said the following:
“It’s hard to say until you hear the final album, I think. ‘Cause you’re so deeply involved with every detail that it’s hard to see the big picture of it until it’s actually all complete. I wouldn’t even know how to approach that question.”
Amott added:
“It’s very diverse, I think, the material. It’s got a lot of trademark Arch Enemy elements, I guess. I can think a song is really, really different, but then we’re gonna play it, it’s gonna be us playing it, Alissa singing, it’s gonna sound very, very Arch Enemy. So it’s not like a huge departure, but it’s definitely the next… I think we’re more relaxed, maybe, than on the last album… ‘Cause Alissa’s been with us for three years, and it’s not as tense, maybe, as it was the last time around. [Before we released ‘War Eternal’] we were, like, ‘We don’t even know if people are gonna like this, if people are gonna accept us, Arch Enemy, with a new singer.’ We didn’t really know, which made the songs maybe more… To me, ‘War Eternal’ has a very kind of dark and very angry and claustrophobic feel to it, which is really cool. But I think the new one is gonna be more open and probably more powerful, actually.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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