Sweden’s ARCH ENEMY will be unleashing their new album, The Root of All Evil, on October 6th (September 28th in Europe) through Century Media Records. The Root of All Evil is a special release featuring a selection of re-recorded songs from the band’s first three albums, Black Earth, Stigmata, and Burning Bridges.
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!”
Regarding further details of the process, 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!”.
In the meantime, the band have a full summer of festival touring ahead throughout Europe, Asia, and then a headlining tour of Australia with support from SUFFOCATION and WINDS OF PLAGUE.
“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)
Mexican Tour - August 2009: 20-August-2009 Mexico City, Mexico @ Circo Volador 22-August-2009 Monterrey, Mexico @ Café Iguana
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)
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