Metal-Temple.com recently conducted an interview with ARCH ENEMY bassist Sharlee D' Angelo. An excerpt from the discussion is available below.

Q: Since the Rise Of The Tyrant it has been almost one and a half years; have you been working on new songs?

Sharlee D'Angelo: "Always. Constantly. We are settled and practice our songs for the tour, but the 23 hours a day that you are not playing, what will you do? You’re still playing your instruments and stuff, sitting and doing warm up and you come up with new riffs and things. So when it comes to discipline, and you sit down and write the album, everybody has a lot of ideas already, so we just sit down for a month and turn these little things to songs. And there are lots of things you left over and you think 'Well, I do not like that much at the moment' and so you record the next album. And then you know what? You find out 'Wow, do you remember that riff?' 'Ah, yeah!', because I know there is somebody that likes that riff when everybody else doesn’t and then you realize that it might fit in a song perfectly. For example there is lots of things that we’ve used, like the in 'I Will Live Again' from the Tyrant album. I remember we played it together for our first sound check here at this very venue. You see it is the little things like that, and I remember another song, that we were in the dressing room and we wrote it right there. So there is lot of things all the time that come in and stick to your mind and at the time you thing 'Well maybe it’s not so good' but after three years down the line it might fit perfectly. So yes, there is a bunch of material but during touring period we cannot make much.

Q: Any further plans?

Sharlee D'Angelo: "We will go to the studio to continue something we have been working for a long time and had no time since we have been on the road. It is a compilation we are recording of songs from the first three albums with today’s line-up."

Q: Is there going to be a new material as bonus?

Sharlee D'Angelo: "No, it is going to be strictly old material. Because there is lot of people they are asking for songs from those albums but when we play them, people in general do not know much about them. So we do not have such strong reaction in concerts. Of course the old versions are out, but we do it for the people who might want to listen something like that. After that, we have a bunch of festivals, South America, Australia a bit more Asia."

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