Australia's LoudMag.com recently caught up with ARCH ENEMY vocalist Angela Gossow to discuss the band's new album, Khaos Legions. An excerpt from the interview is available below:

Q: On to the new album. If the title wasn’t a giveaway, there’s a distinct anarchist streak running throughout it. What inspired that?

Gossow: "It’s actually both atheist and anarchist, because we spelt chaos as 'khaos', which is the Greek spelling. The Greek version comes from the word 'chaos', like the creation of the universe. So, it’s got the chaos theory behind it as well, but with an anarchy in it, so it’s like a combination. That’s actually what we believe in, that’s our attitudes. We’re freedom-loving people and the whole album is about personal freedom – freedom from government, freedom from religion, freedom from social pressure and even freedom from yourself as well, because of the pressure people put on themselves. And we are self-managed, so we actually live a bit like anarchists (laughs). We do only the things that we want to do, we don’t believe in any Gods and our lyrics are very real."

Q: Mike (Amott, guitars) has been quoted as saying that this album was a case of "more is more." Can you elaborate on that?

Gossow: "Oh, well if you listen to it, you’ll understand there’s a lot of shit happening. Musically, it’s quite an extreme journey. I’m not sure if anybody’s going to like it, because it goes from, I don’t know, like a very extreme part; let’s say ‘Cruelty Without Beauty’ or ‘Cult of Chaos’, then it goes into this very sweet, almost Eurovision Song Contest kind of guitar part, and then in (to) a very long, drawn out solo part. You know, there’s a lot of different things in it that define Arch Enemy, but we kind of simplified our songwriting a little on the last couple of albums, so we stepped back from that again and this time we thought, more is more. Now it’s a lot less simple I think and there’s a lot of stuff happening. I think it’ll be very interesting when you listen to the album; musically it’s all over the place."

Q: The band is renowned for making vicious statements of intent with the opening track of each album and on this record ‘Yesterday is Dead and Gone’ is in the same vein. It just screams 'set opener' to me.

Gossow: "Yeah, that’s actually the opener right now. It’s not the best track on the album I think, but it’s very Arch Enemy-esque. It’s like a totally Arch Enemy opener. It worked really well for us; we just played in Morocco and it worked really well as an opener at that show. It’s very much recognisable, it’s like, 'Fuck, that’s Arch Enemy...' (laughs). You know? But I think there are more interesting tracks on the album, but as an opener, it works really well."

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Khaos Legions will mark a return to new, original material, after releasing the Tyrants Of The Rising Sun – Live In Japan live DVD/CD (2008) and the re-recordings album, The Root Of All Evil (2009).

The artwork below comes courtesy of renowned artist, Brent Elliott White (MEGADETH, DEATH ANGEL):

Khaos Legions tracklisting:

'Khaos Overture' (instrumental)

'Yesterday Is Dead And Gone'

'Bloodstained Cross'

'Under Black Flags We March'

'No Gods, No Masters'

'City Of The Dead'

'Through The Eyes Of A Raven'

'Cruelty Without Beauty'

'We Are A Godless Entity' (instrumental)

'Cult Of Chaos'

'Thorns In My Flesh'

'Turn To Dust' (instrumental)

'Vengeance Is Mine'

'Secrets'

'The Zoo'

'Snow Bound' (acoustic)

Check out the video for 'Yesterday Is Dead And Gone' below. The clip was shot by Patrick Ullaeus (DIMMU BORGIR, ENSLAVED, ARCH ENEMY) of Revolver Film.