After recently launching a video for their new album’s title track (which has already surpassed 2 million views on YouTube), metal icons ARCH ENEMY are now ready to unleash the second single from their upcoming 9th full-length, War Eternal, due out worldwide via Century Media Records (Trooper Entertainment in Japan) on June 9th in Europe and June 10th in North America. To watch this new lyric video for „As The Pages Burn”, click the link below: www.smarturl.it
Chief song-writer and band leader Michael Amott comments: „‘As The Pages Burn’ almost goes back to the style of writing that I had in the late 90’s. It’s very old school ARCH ENEMY with an almost SLAYER-vibe in the intro/verse and a huge melodic chorus. A bit like ‘The Immortal’ and other AE classics of that time. The middle section is very classical music inspired – a twin guitar part that is a lot fun to play. Alissa wrote the lyrics for the song. This song is an example of what I love about collaborating– in the songwriting, I’m giving her the instrumental, and she comes from a different background, and the two different approaches merge together to form a very interesting result that blew my mind. It’s one of my favorite tracks on the album.”
Front-woman Alissa White-Gluz adds: „‘As The Pages Burn’ is also one of my favorite songs. I think it’s going to be a very fun song to perform live. I really like fast-paced, energetic songs. A lot of the lyrics on the album are coming straight from my brain during sleepless nights. I often wake up in the middle of the night from horrible nightmares and just start writing songs. For whatever reason, I like the lyrics that I get that way, they feel real and uncensored. This song is one that I wrote at 4am in the dark, half asleep. In the morning I woke up and thought, ‘This is cool, I’m going to use this, and I know just the music to put it to’. The musical dynamics in the song are very satisfying to sing to as well. I hope you like it!”
For another preview of War Eternal, be sure to check out the video for the title track, created by Patric Ullaeus: www.youtu.be
War Eternal can now be pre-ordered digitally in Europe at iTunes & AmazonMP3 with the tracks „War Eternal” and „As The Pages Burn” available as instant downloads upon purchase (a third track, „You Will Know My Name”, will be instantly downloaded on May 26th):
iTunes www.smarturl.it
AmazonMP3 www.smarturl.it
War Eternal track-listing (standard edition)
1. Tempore Nihil Sanat (Prelude in F minor)
2. Never Forgive, Never Forget
3. War Eternal
4. As The Pages Burn
5. No More Regrets
6. You Will Know My Name
7. Graveyard Of Dreams
8. Stolen Life
9. Time Is Black
10. On And On
11. Avalanche
12. Down To Nothing
13. Not Long For This World
ARCH ENEMY will start their War Eternal world tour in May with an extensive run through Europe. A US tour is planned for fall 2014. Let the eternal war begin!
ARCH ENEMY live:
23.05.2014 – Turbohalle – Bucharest, Romania
24.05.2014 – Metal Summer Festival – Istanbul, Turkey
25.05.2014 – Mixtape 5 – Sofia, Bulgaria
27.05.2014 – Majestic Music Club – Bratislava, Slovakia
30.05.2014 – Rock and Roll Arena – Romagnano Sesia (Novara), Italy
31.05.2014 – New Age Club – Roncade, Italy
02.06.2014 – L’Etage – Rennes, France
03.06.2014 – Le 106 – Rouen, France
04.06.2014 – La Laiterie – Strasbourg, France
05.06.2014 – Rosenhof – Osnabrück, Germany
07.06.2014 – Sweden Rock Festival – Sölvesborg, Sweden
09.06.2014 – Studio USF – Bergen, Norway
10.06.2014 – John Dee – Oslo, Norway
11.06.2014 – Copenhell – Copenhagen, Denmark
13.06.2014 – Colos-Saal – Aschaffenburg, Germany
14.06.2014 – Conrad Sohm – Dornbirn, Austria
15.06.2014 – Nova Rock – Nickelsdorf, Austria
27.06.2014 – Rock am Härtsfeldsee – Dischingen, Germany
09.07.2014 – RockMaraton – Pecs, Hungary
11.07.2014 – Rock Harz Open Air – Ballenstedt, Germany
12.07.2014 – Masters Of Rock – Vizovice, Czech Republic
13.07.2014 – Seven Festival – Wegorzewo, Poland
19.07.2014 – Dong Open Air – Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany
02.08.2014 – Wacken Open Air – Wacken, Germany
07.08.2014 – Getaway Rock – Gävle, Sweden
08.08.2014 – Leyendas Del Rock – Alicante, Spain
09.08.2014 – Alcatraz Metal Festival – Kortrijk, Belgium
14.08.2014 – Summer Breeze – Dinkelsbühl, Germany
17.08.2014 – Alt-Fest – Kettering, UK
17.09.2014 – Kerubi – Joensuu, Finland
18.09.2014 – Pakkahuone – Tampere, Finland
19.09.2014 – The Circus – Helsinki, Finland
20.09.2014 – Luakko – Jyväskylä, Finland
22.09.2014 – Re:Republic – Minsk, Belarus
23.09.2014 – Yunost – Kiev, Ukraine
25.09.2014 – Arena Hall – Krasnodar, Russia
27.09.2014 – Glav Club – Moscow, Russia
28.09.2014 – Zal Ozhidaniya – Saint Petersburg, Russia
30.09.2014 – Otdykh Club – Novosibirsk, Russia
01.10.2014 – Angar Club – Omsk, Russia
03.10.2014 – Tele Club – Yekaterinburg, Russia
19.10.2014 – Loud Park 14 – Saitama City, Japan
ARCH ENEMY, KREATOR, SODOM, VADER tour dates
26.11.2014 – Le Transbordeur – Lyon, France *
27.11.2014 – L´Usine – Istres, France *
01.12.2014 – Le Bikini – Toulouse, France *
02.12.2014 – Le Bataclan – Paris, France *
04.12.2014 – 013 – Tilburg, Netherlands
05.12.2014 – MHP Arena – Ludwigsburg, Germany
06.12.2014 – Turbinenhalle – Oberhausen, Germany
07.12.2014 – Garage – Saarbrücken, Germany
08.12.2014 – Grosse Freiheit 36 – Hamburg, Germany
09.12.2014 – Huxleys – Berlin, Germany
11.12.2014 – Schlachthof – Wiesbaden, Germany
12.12.2014 – Eventhall – Geiselwind, Germany
13.12.2014 – Tonhalle – München, Germany
14.12.2014 – Z7 – Pratteln, Switzerland
16.12.2014 – Institute – Birmingham, UK *
17.12.2014 – Academy – Bristol, UK *
18.12.2014 – The Forum – London, UK *
19.12.2014 – Academy – Manchester, UK *
20.12.2014 – Academy – Dublin, Ireland *
21.12.2014 – QMU – Glasgow, UK *
22.12.2014 – Academy – Newcastle, UK *
*=without SODOM and VADER
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