Arch Enemy recently checked in with the following surprise announcement:

"We're very excited about returning to Japan next month for a performance at the 10th anniversary of the Loud Park festival! We will be bringing two very special guests...original Arch Enemy members Johan Liiva and Christopher Amott!"

BraveWords scribe Carl Begai spoke with Liiva, currently fronting Nonexist, shortly after the announcement was made. 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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The new Nonexist album, Throne Of Scars, will be released October 23rd through Mighty Music. Stay tuned for an exclusive BraveWords interview with Liiva, coming soon.

Nonexist consists of and Johan Liiva (Arch Enemy, Carnage, Furbowl) and Johan Reinholdz (Andromeda, Skyfire).

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.

The release party for Throne Of Scars will be held at the rock bar Zeppelin in Copenhagen, Denmark and the band will be there and present the new album and DJ together with the Mighty Music crew. For more details visit Facebook.