Wir sind alle heil und wohlbehalten von den Malediven zurück. Ausführlicher Bericht kommt demnächst von der Show und allem drumherum!

Jetzt am kommmenden Samstag spielen wir auf dem Rock Area Festival, Lorelei. Nur eins von 2 DE Shows für Arch Enemy dieses Jahr.

Also nix wie hin und mit uns feiern!

http://www.rockarea-festival.com/de/

Das TAGESTICKET fuer den Samstag kostet nur 19 Euro!
Das 3-Tages-Ticket nur 49 Euro.

Also beeilt euch, bevor sie alle weg sind!

Tickets gibt es hier: http://www.rockarea-festival.com/de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152&Itemid=163″>http://”>http://www.rockarea-festival.com/de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152&Itemid=163

Euer Chopstick Vampir,

Angela

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Next ARCH ENEMY show is at the ROCK AREA festival in Loreley, Germany on Saturday July 31.

This one of only two German Open Airs for ARCH ENEMY this year.

There are some cool deals on tickets now for this festival:

Arch Enemy – day ticket only 19 Euro (Saturday)
3 – day ticket only 49 Euro

Tickets @ http://www.rockarea-festival.com/de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152&Itemid=163

Metal masters ARCH ENEMY have been touring restlessly around the globe for their latest studio album “Rise Of The Tyrant”, their successive live-release ”Tyrants Of The Rising Sun – Live In Japan” as well as their “The Root Of All Evil” re-recordings album launched in 2009.  And the good news is: They show no sign of slowing down!

After a great touring run in North America together with Exodus early in 2010, ARCH ENEMY have already appeared on several high-profile festival events in Europe this year and are now about to hit slightly more “exotic” territories in the coming days, when they will one of the first ever international acts to bring the sound of Metal to the Faroe Islands (!) and the Maldives (!!!). Singer Angela Gossow checks in from the road as follows:

“This weekend we are playing two very remote and exotic places: Faroe Islands and the Maldives. Both places have not seen many international acts – In fact we are the first international metal band ever to play the Maldives. We are very curious about the fans and the atmosphere in both places!
The geographical contrast between these two destinations couldn’t be bigger. Faroe Islands (situated between Scotland and Iceland in the North Atlantic) are beautiful in their tristesse. Untamed and rough nature, grass covered rocky mountains.12 degrees Celsius. Cold. Rain. Thick fog and stormy winds. Landing at the airport felt more like a plane crash… The main stage suffered badly last night we hear. The bigger of the two stages stage died yesterday. They even lost one side of the P.A. into the sea. Yes, that’s into the sea.
This is their summer. Reminds me of a grey, windy autumn day in Sweden… A perfect place to write a metal album I’d say. The Maldives (a cluster of atolls in the Indian Ocean) will be hot, lush green, full of colourful flowers and scents and brimming with ‘holiday flair’. We will soak up the sun and dance with the sharks but will most likely not write one sinister riff there. And we need a few of these as we are heading into the studio end of this year. Both shows will give us a lot of inspiration though to travel further and further with every touring cycle. We love exploring new places. Mainland India will come up next…soon! But for today it’s the G! Festival Faroe Islands and the coming weekend it is the Rockstorm Festival Maldives! Extreme Exotic Metal Apocalypse!”

Look out for ARCH ENEMY to appear on the selected European festivals as well as in UK clubs later this year as part of the “Metal Hammer Meltdown” tour:

Arch Enemy Live 2010:

16. July G! Festival, Göta (Faroe Islands)
23. July LeCute RockStorm Chapter 3 @ Alimas Carnival, Male’ (Maldives)
31. July Rockarea Festival, Loreley (Germany)
06. August Wacken Open Air, Wacken (Germany)
21. August Trutnov Open Air Festival, Trutnov (Czech Republic)
22. October Waerdse Tempel, Heerhugowaard (Holland)
23. October Metal Female Voice Fest VIII – Wieze (Belgium)
24. October Metal Breed Festival @ Markthalle – Hamburg (Germany)
26. October Klub Stodoła / Batorego 1, Warszawa (Poland)
23. November Academy 2, Manchester (UK)
24. November Garage, Glasgow (UK)
25. November 25 Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton (UK)
27. November The Forum, London (UK)

More news and details on ARCH ENEMY can always be found here:

http://www.archenemy.net
http://www.myspace.com/archenemy

http://twitter.com/archenemymetal
http://www.youtube.com/archenemyofficial

http://www.centurymedia.com

http://www.vans.com/musicblog/

ALSO CHECK OUT THESE MAG SCANS!!

Enjoy!

Angela

iMusic1 will air an exclusive interview with Angela Gossow. Focus will be on all things ‘Angela & Arch Enemy’, her vocal workshop and her participation in the international ‘Metal And Gender’ conference.

The interview will be shown in 2 parts:

Part 1: Sunday, 13.12. 11pm-12am
Part 2: Sunday, 20.12. 11pm-12am

iMusic1 is a music channel you can receive via Astra Satellite or Digital TV within Europe!
More info at: http://www.im1.tv

20-October-2009 @
World Trade Center - Manila  (Philippines)

Great,

the typhoon has parked his violent core far off the coast above the ocean.. 

Which means our flights are on and nobody is in danger coming to the show. Our first gig in Manila is going to happen! 

And it comes with a giant bat and pyros (probably no license, haha..) Our promoters from Pulp magazine are taking very good care of us. Nice hotel, way too much food and lot of excitement about the show tomorrow. We are the first European metal band to stir up some live madness over here. Damn. Its about time!

Michael and Daniel doing a signing for Dean Guitars / Pearl Drums before the show. Next day will be a very early flight and a show in Hong Kong. So I sleep most of the day.. Kinda refilling my batteries for the next 36 hours of sleep depravity to come.

I am totally awake and ready to do this show. I wanna see the giant bat in action.. It blows a lot of smoke during ‘My Apocalypse’.. Funny shit!

The giant bat, spitting smoke:

We Will Rise – Fire!

The Grande Finale – Nemesis!

Manila knows how to thrash!

Stage action!

Signing session Dean Guitar & Pearl
Drums

Michael and his pale twin-brother from the
twilight zone!

Arch Enemy has 2 bass players from now on – sludge doom core!

No typhoons, just palm trees and pools.. I was just waiting for the pretty scenery to turn to absolute horror.. movie style.

 ….

Yeah.. lots of great memories!! We will be back.. But first we have to survive Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul and Jakarta

Angela

18-October-2009 @
Liberty Square – Taipei (Taiwan)

You don’t wanna know how it feels to get up at 4.30 am in Tokyo, board a plane at 8am and then play a show at 8pm in another country – Taiwan. It really screws with your head and makes you feel like day dreaming and moon walking. 

I can’t remember much from the day. Land at noon in Taipei, get in a van. Drive to the hotel. Smells different here. Fish. Weird plants. Car exhaust. Check into room. Shower. Drop into bed, sleep 2 hours. Alarm rings. Get up again, shower again. Very tired. Drive to venue, warm up voice. Get up on stage. Different setlist tonight! 

BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS

RAVENOUS

TAKING BACK MY SOUL

THE IMMORTAL

DEAD EYES SEE NO FUTURE

MY APOCALYPSE

DIVA SATANICA

REVOLUTION BEGINS   

DRUM SOLO

I WILL LIVE AGAIN

BURY ME AN ANGEL 

PILGRIM

CHRIS GUITAR SOLO

MICHAEL GUITAR SOLO

DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD

WE WILL RISE

SNOWBOUND

NEMESIS 

FIELDS OF DESOLATION OUTRO

Yeah.. I actually recognize some faces in the crowd. It is our 2nd time here in Taipei. They finally wake me up with their enthusiasm. Very cool show. I feel good and alive again by the time we rip into Ravenous, haha. Hails and horns!

Great footage on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6CvXrHyCwo

Music got some serious power. I like it. Angela is back! Taipei rocks, we rock. Fun show. Chris is the man!

Great crowd!

Afterwards, we have a meet’n'greet with a 100 fans. Thats a lot of people to say ‘hello’ to.. Sorry, if i dont remember your name next time. My brain feels like a raspberry muffin. Sweet and dewy. Haha.

mmmmmmmm.. muffin.

After signing different body parts and taking lots of pictures we say ‘bye-bye’ to everybody and follow the call of the pillow: ‘Lay your heavy head down here’. Oh yes. totally. Tomorrow we are flying out to Manila. If the typhoon has mercy and doesnt move any closer. 

I am dreaming of storms and plane crashes. Great. 

All about crazy Manila in the next report (of course we went there. We ain’t pussies).

Angela

This was – hands down – the toughest tour we have done so far. So many flights, countries, new places, old friends and very early wake up calls.. I didn’t think it would go so smoothly and we would actually make our 42 hour flight from New Zealand via San Francisco and Frankfurt back home to Copenhagen airport. But we did! And here I am, trying to remember the crazy ride we have been on for a whole month!

17-October-2009@ Loud Park ‘09 Makuhari Messe 9-11 – Tokyo (Japan)

Our 3rd time we are playing this massive festival! Sharing the stage with Judas Priest and Megadeth this time around makes it even better! We go on right before Megadeth – with a very different setlist than usual:

BURY ME AN ANGEL
REVOLUTION BEGINS
THE IMMORTAL
RAVENOUS
BEAST OF MAN
PILGRIM
THE LAST ENEMY
I WILL LIVE AGAIN
DEMONIC SCIENCE
BRIDGE OF DESTINY
NEMESIS
+ BRIDGE OUTRO

We actually played ‘Demonic Science’ for the very first time live and only at Loudpark, hehe. And for the record: Megadeth killed!

Nice to meet Shawn Drover from Megadeth, lots of cool fans at the meet’n’greet,Tetsu and Aya from our label Trooper Entertainment, the lovely Creative Man crew, our friends.. Japan is our 2nd home. Has been for a while. If I could just afford an apartment in Tokyo, haha.. Well, we will just keep coming back ‘til the end of our days! A million thanx to our fans for the raging show!

Check out this cool live clip I found:

And of course, tons of pictures:

Arch Enemy ‘hit the lights’:

This is a beautiful guitar – The Tyrant!

Chris rocking the crowd!

The setlist in action!

Angela shouting at people, as usual..

The mighty D!

Angela on fire.

And here she is being nice for about 3 seconds. Then the next song starts, hehe.

Love this drummer and his drum kit!

Oh yeah. Drums and guitars. Sexy.

Tetsu from Trooper Entertainment rocks!

The D’s 666bpm drumkit!

Tokyo by sunrise! Very early wake up call at 4.30am to catch our flight at 8am. Tough shit.

Fuji mountain – This is Japan – from the view out of the plane. Bye, bye our love.

Next tour report will cover:

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
@SEOUL AX- Seoul (Republic Of Korea)

28-October-2009
@ Senayan Tennis Indoor Stadium- Jakarta (Indonesia)

See you later – we are fighting a jet-lag from hell!
Angela

The b-day guestbook is absolutely lovely and much fun to read! I had a killer b-day bash at the Melbourne show.. live on stage, haha.. I am not sentimental about my own b-day to be honest.. and I never tell anybody in the band or crew about it.. But the fans always rrrrrrremember anyway. And its always a nice surprise and does warm my cold heavy metal heart .. i have to admit it

Melbourne is singing happy b-day for me – experimental jazz chaos fusion style, haha.. Loved it!

YOUTUBE CLIP: Melbourne singing Happy B-Day

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot

Yo,

Here is some real fun footage

And some epic live pictures:

 

If you like that shirt – you can get it here:

The Official Arch Enemy Ebay Store 

As Michael was pulling a double shift with Arch Enemy & Carcass he was naturally the most requested interview partner that day too.. Here some proof of his tough working day:

 :

Like I said, we will be coming ’round for more shows in 2010 – so stay pure fucking metal until then Great Britain!