Tomb Of The Opinionated's Norman McCann recently conducted an interview with ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow, in which she discusses being featured on CNN, playing the Maldives, their new album, touring and more. The following is an excerpt:

Q: Any updates on a new album? Have you guys started writing?

A: "Yes. We have 9 songs by now and still got a ton of riffs, ideas and melodies lying around. We will lock ourselves away from the 1st December on and the album is scheduled to be released in May 2011. Lots of hard work, but we are more than ready for it and just wanna kill!"

Read the complete interview at this location.

As previously reported, Arch Enemy was included on CNN's Global Connections program on September 10th, which focused on various connections between Sweden and Malaysia. The segment is available below; the Arch Enemy portion begins at 1:25.

Stressing the band’s seemingly endless worldwide touring campaign, Arch Enemy have also now added a video re-cap of their recent trip to the Maldives, where they became one of the first international rock/metal groups to ever play there. Watch it below.

And even before having finished this year’s touring duties, which will still see the band play shows in Holland, Belgium, Germany and Poland as well as a headlining tour of the UK, Arch Enemy have already been announced to appear in headlining slots at 2011’s edition of the Metalfest events in Germany, Austria and Switzerland: May 27th - 29th - Metalfest Open Air Switzerland (Pratteln), Metalfest Open Air Germany (Dessau) and Metalfest Open Air Austria (Mining). Info and tickets here.

Here are all confirmed Arch Enemy shows for the rest of 2010:

October

22 - Waerdse Tempel - Heerhugowaard, Holland
23 - Metal Female Voices Fest VIII - Wieze, Belgium
24 - Metal Breed Festival @ Markthalle - Hamburg, Germany
26 - Klub Stodo?a - Warszawa, Poland

November (The United Kingdom Of Heavy Metal Tour with Grand Magus, Maelfice, Chthonic)

23 - Academy - Manchester, UK
24 - Garage - Glasgow, UK
25 - Wulfren Hall - Wolverhampton, UK
27 - HMV Forum - London, UK