ARCH ENEMY vocalist Angela Gossow has issued the following update:

"We want YOU to become a part of the Arch Enemy legions!

Follow our daily status updates via Twitter and Facebook straight from the studio or from the road, backstage and rehearsal room. We will be twittering links to video snippets, our personal comments, ideas we are throwing at each other.. If you wanna know how Arch Enemy work and make a killer album - join us now!

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As previously reported, is poised to enter the studio on December 1st to begin work on their new, as yet untitled album. Maximum Rock Mag recently spoke with AE vocalist Angela Gossow. Although, the interview was published in Romanian, it has since been translated into English. An excerpt follows:

So, what’s going on with Arch Enemy? What are you guys doing now?

"Well, we got a couple of shows coming up actually this week, we’re playing four shows in Holland, Belgium, Germany and Poland, then we go back home to continue writing the new album. Then we go out again in November, we play four shows in the UK, a headline tour, we haven’t been there for a while. Then we come back and go straight to the studio in the beginning of December and start recording the new album. Working title is Fuck You All! No! Just kidding! We’ve got 12 songs for now but I think we’re going to end up with 15 or 16 songs, I don’t know… We have two months in the studio, December and January. The album has to drop in May. We start playing festivals then already in support of the new album. We’re kicking off with the Metalfest festivals where we headline, then we’re just gonna do the European festivals season, full on; there’s tons of shows, bigger and smaller festivals. Then we go either on a festival trek in the USA or we will start touring Asia, India and Australia."

Let’s talk a bit about the direction of the new album? How is it gonna sound? What should the fans expect?

"Arch Enemy’s trademark is extreme stuff with a lot of melody, right now the extreme stuff is definitely over the top, so I think we will try to write 2-3 more melodic tracks, it’s very extreme at the moment, a lot of blast beats, you know... I’m so excited about it, we haven’t written an album since 2007, we’ve got a tone of riffs, there’s gonna be a lot of riffs in every song I think because we’ve got so many and we’re just really hungry for a new album!"

To read the rest of the interview, in which Angela discusses being both an atheist and vegan, visit the blog at her official MySpace page.