Loud TV recently caught up with Nonexist / former Arch Enemy vocalist Johan Liiva to discuss the new Nonexist album Throne Of Scars, reuniting with Johan Reinholdz, and reuniting with Arch Enemy on stage at Loud Park 2015.

Throne of Scars features nine tracks and is produced and mixed by Johan Reinholdz at Multipass Studios with the assistance of Markus Nilsson at Sunnanå Studio in Malmö. The style of the songs retains the atmosphere from the previous album, From My Cold Dead Hands; dark, intense, varied and heavy while also adding some new influences in the mix.

BraveWords scribe Carl Begai recently spoke with Liiva shortly after the announcement that he would be making a guest appearance with Arch Enemy at Loud Park 2015. Following is an excerpt from the interview:

One has to remember that reunions of any kind aren’t simply a matter of band members burying whatever hatchets had been previously sharpened. There’s management and contracts to deal with, and Arch Enemy is no different. It’s a unique situation, however, in that former Arch Enemy vocalist Angela Gossow is now the band’s manager, meaning Liiva has had to work with his vocal successor putting the Loud Park details together.

“It’s totally comfortable, not strange at all,” Liiva reveals. “I’ve been in contact with Angela since the spring about the arrangements for Loud Park, the visa, and she helped me through it, sent me the forms I needed, and guided me. She spent 14 years in the band I have total respect for that. I told her at one point, because I felt that I had to bring it up, that I never had any problems with her replacing me. Of course, in the beginning I felt really awkward and shocked, but I never really had any problem with it. That’s how I am. I don’t hold old grudges. Angela is a good person and a total professional.”

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