Tout ça en parallèle d'Arch Enemy, un peu comme Rage et Refuge.
Cela fait suite à l'apparition de Johan Liiva sur scène avec Arch Enemy au Japon récemment. Inutile de préciser que le groupe va se limiter aux 3 premiers albums d'Arch Enemy.
BLACK EARTH is the name of a new project featuring former and current members of ARCH ENEMY performing material from ARCH ENEMY's first three albums live on stage.
BLACK EARTH is:
Michael Amott - guitar
Christopher Amott - guitar
Johan Liiva - vocals
Daniel Erlandsson - drums
Sharlee D'Angelo - bass
Says Michael Amott: "[It's] very awesome to finally announce this new project BLACK EARTH, which will perform ARCH ENEMY's first three albums material live on stage. Old-school '90s lineup. An extensive tour of Japan in May announced today!"
BLACK EARTH — the project featuring former and current members of ARCH ENEMY performing material from the latter band's first three albums live on stage — has recorded two new songs that will be included on an upcoming collection of remastered tracks from those early LPs.
Speaking to Japan's "Masa Ito's Rock TV", ARCH ENEMY guitarist and main songwriter Michael Amott explained how the new music came about. "Together with Trooper Entertainment, we've put together a compilation of our favorite tracks from the first, second and third album that featured these guys — with Johan [Liiva on vocals] and Chris [Amott on guitar] and everything," he said (see video below). "And we've put together a compilation album of that '90s material. It's been remastered here in Japan. I actually attended the mastering session last week, and it sounds incredible. It really brought the old tracks… it gave them a new life. And then we actually recorded two new songs in Sweden. So we've been quite busy with that."
He continued: "It's quite complicated getting everybody together to do that. But we wrote these two new songs. I wrote one with Chris, and then I wrote one myself. They're called 'Burn On The Flame' and 'Life Infernal' — two brand new tracks that are kind of in the style of what we used to do, I think. And they turned out really amazing too. We actually went back to Fredrik Nordström's studio, Fredman, where we made the first three records. So we worked with the original producer. And he mixed it, and it sounds really powerful — very cool."
According to Michael, the BLACK EARTH recording sessions turned out to be a "very, very strange" experience, "because we just picked it up where we left off. After about an hour or so, we were doing the same kind of jokes and the same kind of chemistry," he explained. "And the sounds as well. I was thinking maybe it was gonna sound very different. Also because of us — we all progress and change over the years, and develop. And also Fredrik, of course. He had a new studio now, with some different equipment. But actually, he just managed to get that old-school sound. And it was a lot of fun. Kind of a little bit nostalgia."
I'm the lost one chasing colors to the sun
Colors bleed but never fade