ARCH ENEMY To Play Special 'Old-School' Set At Second Mexico City Show

Swedish/German extreme metallers ARCH ENEMY have announced a second show in Mexico City on August 23. This event will see the band playing a different "old-school" set, inspired by its upcoming studio release, "The Root Of All Evil", due in late September 2009.

Commented ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow: "Mexico, we are moving in, armed with a huge arsenal of heavy metal ammunition! It's going to be a real challenge to add lots of new 'old' songs to our setlist. We have actually blocked more than two weeks for rehearsals for these three shows… We will go straight from the European festivals into the rehearsal room, then headline Bloodstock Open Air, U.K. and fly straight on to Mexico. No rest, just the usual insanity! We will see you next month!!!"

ARCH ENEMY's Mexican dates:

Aug. 20 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Circo Volador
Aug. 22 - Monterrey, Mexico @ UMA Bar
Aug. 23 - Mexico City, Mexico @ Circo Volador

Acclaimed British producer Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, TESTAMENT, EXODUS) has finished mixing and mastering the new ARCH ENEMY record, "The Root Of All Evil", due on September 28 in Europe and October 6 in North America via Century Media Records. This special collection features re-recorded versions of songs from the first three ARCH ENEMY albums — "Black Earth" (1996),"Stigmata" (1998) and "Burning Bridges" (1999).

Commented guitarist Michael Amott: "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!"

Amott continued: "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 [Gossow] vocal performance is astoundingly intense and brutal and it was also cool to hear Sharlee [D'Angelo] 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!"