The fifth trailer for “Khaos Legions”, the ninth studio album from Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY, can be viewed below. Due on May 30 in Europe and June 7 in the U.S. via Century Media Records. Source: Blabbermouth.net
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ARCH ENEMY‘s front-of-house engineer, Clem Bennett, has posted a three-minute clip featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the band’s first-ever appearance in Morocco on May 15 in Casablanca. Also available is fan-filmed video footage of the concert. Check them out below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
The third trailer for “Khaos Legions”, the ninth studio album from Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY, can be viewed below. Due on May 30 in Europe and June 7 in the U.S. via Century Media Records, the CD will mark the band’s return to new, original material, after the release of the “Tyrants Of The Rising Sun – Live In Japan” live DVD/CD (2008) and the re-recordings album, “The Root Of All Evil” (2009). The effort was tracked at Sweet Spot Studio in the south of Sweden with engineer Rickard Bengtsson (who produced 2005’s “Doomsday Machine”).
The “Khaos Legions” artwork, which comes courtesy of renowned artist Brent Elliott White (MEGADETH, DEATH ANGEL), can be viewed below.
“Khaos Legions” track listing:
01. Khaos Overture (instrumental)
02. Yesterday Is Dead And Gone
03. Bloodstained Cross
04. Under Black Flags We March
05. No Gods, No Masters
06. City Of The Dead
07. Through The Eyes Of A Raven
08. Cruelty Without Beauty
09. We Are A Godless Entity (instrumental)
10. Cult Of Chaos
11. Thorns In My Flesh
12. Turn To Dust (instrumental)
13. Vengeance Is Mine
14. Secrets
15. The Zoo
16. Snow Bound (acoustic)
ARCH ENEMY has launched an online pre-order for “Khaos Legions”. In addition to ensuring a prompt delivery of the highly anticipated album on release day, all North American pre-orders will receive an autographed ARCH ENEMY photo, a code for a free bonus download of the live song “Dark Insanity” (recorded at the Metal Female Voices Fest 2010) via email when the album drops, and be entered to win weekly prizes from Altec Lansing‘s line of award-winning audio products. Head over to this location for full details on the pre-order contest, exclusive download, and all the available “Khaos Legions” pre-order packages.
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Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY have launched an online pre-order for their forthcoming ninth studio album, “Khaos Legions”. In addition to ensuring a prompt delivery of the highly anticipated album on release day, all North American pre-orders will receive an autographed ARCH ENEMY photo, a code for a free bonus download of the live song “Dark Insanity” (recorded at the Metal Female Voices Fest 2010) via email when the album drops, and be entered to win weekly prizes from Altec Lansing‘s line of award-winning audio products. Head over to this location for full details on the pre-order contest, exclusive download, and all the available “Khaos Legions” pre-order packages.
The first trailer for “Khaos Legions” can be viewed below. Due on May 30 in Europe and June 7 in the U.S. via Century Media Records, the CD will mark the band’s return to new, original material, after the release of the “Tyrants Of The Rising Sun – Live In Japan” live DVD/CD (2008) and the re-recordings album, “The Root Of All Evil” (2009). The effort was tracked at Sweet Spot Studio in the south of Sweden with engineer Rickard Bengtsson (who produced 2005’s “Doomsday Machine”).
The “Khaos Legions” artwork, which comes courtesy of renowned artist Brent Elliott White (MEGADETH, DEATH ANGEL), can be viewed below.
“Khaos Legions” track listing:
01. Khaos Overture (instrumental)
02. Yesterday Is Dead And Gone
03. Bloodstained Cross
04. Under Black Flags We March
05. No Gods, No Masters
06. City Of The Dead
07. Through The Eyes Of A Raven
08. Cruelty Without Beauty
09. We Are A Godless Entity (instrumental)
10. Cult Of Chaos
11. Thorns In My Flesh
12. Turn To Dust (instrumental)
13. Vengeance Is Mine
14. Secrets
15. The Zoo
16. Snow Bound (acoustic)
The “Yesterday Is Dead And Gone” video can be viewed below.
ARCH ENEMY drummer Daniel Erlandsson previously stated about the new CD, “We had a very inspiring and creative time writing this album. I think this is definitely evident when listening to the new songs. There’s tons of variation in the material, ranging all the way from very melodic to extremely heavy.
“As you can expect there’s no shortage of killer riffs and intricate guitar work; the Amott brothers [Michael and Chris] have come up with some very cool yet demanding ideas!
“This album has some of the fastest songs I’ve ever recorded, along with a bunch of heavy pounding mid-tempo songs.
“As always, it’s difficult to describe music in words, but rest assured — this album will be one heavy fucker!”
ARCH ENEMY debuted two brand new songs — “No Gods, No Masters” and “Yesterday Is Dead And Gone” — during its very special and intimate showcase on March 14 in Wermelskirchen, Germany at the AJZ Bahndamm, a self-governed youth center which is well known for its various underground metal, punk and hardcore shows with a capacity of 200 people.
The Wermelskirchen show kicked off the campaign for “Khaos Legions”. Only 150 die-hard fans plus journalists from all over Europe witnessed the worldwide premiere of two new songs from the upcoming album. It was hot, it was sweaty and it smelled like “khaos.”
You can see photos of this very remarkable event at this location . Source: Blabbermouth.net
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“Yesterday Is Dead And Gone” video:
Vocalist Angela Gossow of Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY recently spoke to U.K.’s Terrorizer magazine about her first couple of years as frontwoman of the melodeath heavyweights, as well as offer her thoughts on the tag “female-fronted” and why metal’s rebellious nature has always appealed to her.
On the impact that bringing in a female singer had on ARCH ENEMY:
Gossow: “When I joined the band and we made [2001’s ‘Wages Of Sin’], we initially got some positive responses, but when it was finally released the whole ‘No way, it’s a chick!’ thing started, because that was actually quite new back then. So we got a lot of attention, media coverage and support through that, and we supported bands like IRON MAIDEN and NILE, and it was just surreal. I didn’t think about it much at first, but there was a lot of press that came because of me being a woman. It went in a direction that had me thinking, ‘Right, I thought we were emancipated, but now we’re back to this thing of there being a chick in a band?’ We had to consciously work against that — we’d be regretting it ten years down the line if we became established as ‘Angela And The Enemies.'”
On the term “female-fronted metal”:
Gossow: “What does it mean? That the singer has tits! [Laughs] It doesn’t say anything about the music, or the quality of the musicianship, and that’s something that we’ve always tried to sail around and avoid. It’s a bad thing for us, and other bands go well with it and it’s okay if they’re comfortable with it, but we’re not a ‘female-fronted’ band. We’re an extreme metal band, and that’s all I want us to be remembered as.”
On her kinship with extreme metal itself:
Gossow: “Metal is a type of music that deals a lot with personal freedom and rebellion, thinking for yourself and questioning authority. It’s a music that is loud and demands attention, and it’s the sound of freedom. That’s been my life philosophy in the way that I live my life, and when I joined ARCH ENEMY I made that a reality, because there’s nothing more free than being in a band. Metal is the type of music that says, ‘Go fuck yourself. This is my life and I have the basic rights to use it.'”
You can read more on Angela‘s life growing up and the band themselves — as well as grab yourself a mega-sized Angela poster — in the current issue of Terrorizer, out now.
Click here to order your copy. Source: Blabbermouth.net
The first trailer for “Khaos Legions”, the new album from Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY, can be viewed below. Due on May 30 in Europe and June 7 in the U.S. via Century Media Records, the CD will mark the band’s return to new, original material, after the release of the “Tyrants Of The Rising Sun – Live In Japan” live DVD/CD (2008) and the re-recordings album, “The Root Of All Evil” (2009). The effort was tracked at Sweet Spot Studio in the south of Sweden with engineer Rickard Bengtsson (who produced 2005’s “Doomsday Machine”). Source: Blabbermouth.net
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“Yesterday Is Dead And Gone” video:
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