The following update has been issued via the official ARCH ENEMY website:

Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott recently spoke to Decibel Magazine about the recording process for the group's follow-up to 2005's Doomsday Machine, due later in the year via Century Media Records.

“I’m kind of freaking out,” says guitarist Mike Amott, on the phone from Gothenburg, Sweden, where he and his Arch Enemy bandmates are nestled at the famous Studio Fredman. “You get cabin fever, it’s so remote, this place. When I get into doing my guitars I’ll be fine, but now I’m like, ‘Oh my god,’ climbing the walls here.”

The band is at the start of a scheduled eight-week stint at the notorious metal factory, where they’ll be recording their follow-up to 2005’s Doomsday Machine. “Basically we’re laying down the drums. Daniel (Erlandsson) is working right now; we’re just kind of staring into our laptops,” says Amott, pleased to kill some time talking to Decibel. “In the middle of next week, we’ll start with guitars. It’s like building a huge puzzle, piecing it all together.”

Vocalist Angela Gossow has become one of the prominent screamers in metal, and according to Amott, she intends to bring more of her formidable live presence to the band’s seventh album. “She’s been working a lot on her voice and she’s got some new deranged witch vocals; she’s got some really intense stuff for the new album. On the last album she double-tracked everything, but this time she wants to stay with the one single voice, and I think more of her personality will probably come out in the vocals.”

This album has Arch Enemy reuniting with Fredrik Nordström, who last worked with the band on 2001’s breakthrough Wages Of Sin. “Fredrik produced that record and I think the material we have is a little bit more in that vein. It’s more intense than what we’ve seen on the last couple of albums. We went back a little bit to what we did on Burning Bridges and Wages of Sin, with more riffs, more melodies, a bit more stuff going on, more action-packed.”

“Fredrik didn’t think we would ever come back,” Amott laughs. “We had some fights in the past, but you grow up, and you only remember the good times. It’s all coming back now; all the bad memories (laughs). We’ll have a big bust-up at some point, fistfights over the mixing console.”