From Blabbermouth.net

"Former CARCASS guitarist Mike Amott (currently in ARCH ENEMY) has revealed that the legendary U.K. death metal band may reunite for a tour.

In an exclusive interview with Sweden's Close-Up magazine (web site), Amott said that he and guitarist/vocalist Bill Steer secretly met in Halmstad, Sweden last year to rehearse old CARCASS material. A couple of months later, they were joined by vocalist/bassist Jeff Walker for another practice session. ARCH ENEMY's Daniel Erlandsson was handling the drum duties at these rehearsals.

"It sounded really good and it was a lot of fun," said Amott. "We rehearsed pretty much the entire 'Heartwork' album [1993]."

The original plan was for CARCASS to play several festival shows this summer, but that fell through.

"I hope we can do some reunion shows at a later date," explained Amott. "It would be a lot of fun and I'd love to play the songs live again. Unfortunately, it can't happen until 18 months from now, at the earliest, because ARCH ENEMY has a totally full schedule. It's different for the other guys who don't work as actively on their music careers."

Have you discussed writing new songs?

"To write something new seems unnecessary. People still only want to hear the old stuff," said Amott.

After the "Heartwork" tour, Mike Amott left CARCASS. The band then released the appropriately titled album "Swansong" (1996).

What did you think of "Swansong" when it came out?

"I wasn't a fan of it," Mike replied. "But we actually rehearsed a couple of songs from it last year and they sounded pretty good. I think the production partly ruined it. It sounded sparse and basically all the extreme stuff that characterized CARCASS was gone. It felt boring."

Have the other members of CARCASS heard ARCH ENEMY?

"Jeff has flat-out said that he thinks we suck," Amott stated. "Bill is not into that kind of music. I think the guys left the metal world as it was in the middle of the '90s and haven't thought about it since. It seems they think it's a little bizarre that I'm still doing the metal thing full-on."

Original CARCASS drummer Ken Owen suffered a brain hemorrhage in 1999 and was hospitalized for ten months, slowly emerging from a coma.

"Ken is doing fine today, but he's not a metal drummer," Amott explained. "He's not capable of playing entire concerts with an extreme band like CARCASS. I still hope that he, if we do a tour, will travel with us and play a couple of songs each night."

Earache Records will re-release the CARCASS back catalogue with bonus material, including extra DVDs with brand new interviews and other footage.

"Jeff has negotiated with Earache and been able to make the label pay us a lot of old royalties," Amott revealed. "Of course money means something, but it would be great fun to go around and play songs that truly are classics in a genre. I've never played stuff like that to people before. I mean, songs that somehow have been soundtracks to people's lives. It would be fun to dig up the old corpse again."

Close-Up's new issue with ARCH ENEMY on the cover is out now."

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermo....aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=80991

oooooh boy, that would be amazing.

there is a picture of them all together again in um.. I think decibel or outburn this month.

God damn would I kill to see this.


...but who would play drums for the remainder of the set that Ken Owen couldn't handle?

No mention of "Reek of Putrefaction"? WTF?!

This is pretty funny though:

Have the other members of CARCASS heard ARCH ENEMY?

"Jeff has flat-out said that he thinks we suck," Amott stated.

Incarnated Solvent Abuse makes me want to punch myself in the throat. i think i'd melt if i saw that live.

told you so!

If they got back together and did a full set of the old grindcore shit, I'd like to go see them, but I wouldn't be interested if they're just going to play all the post-1992 melo-death crap and ignore all the old shit.

I_am_not_me said:

wel, in the interview michael said that daniel from arch enemy was rehearsing with them, so maybe him. im sure he could pull it off with no problem

boner

At The Gates is playing this tour, right?

This makes my life worth living

my life will be complete if this happens. i will follow them around the northeast if i have to.

isn't Mike Amott in Opeth now? he could bring some awesome riffage to their plate.

Yeti said:

i like where this thread is going

porphyria said:

Hahahaha, yeah, 3 or 4 years later...I still won't believe this until it happens because of all the false threads in the past.

What the fuck is up with Earache re-releasing everything? Or should I say re-re-releasing, and in some cases re-re-re-releasing? They JUST put everything out again like a year ago with bonus stuff.

Holy shit! If this happens I'm there! I don't care if I have to the fly out to the Artic Circle to see this!

BTW, Matt Ammott is not in Opeth. You're thinking of Fredrik Åkesson who is new guitar player for Opeth. He was in Arch Enemy for like a year while Ammott was taking a break.

Sounds like they are mostly interested in playing songs from "Heartwork".

If so, no care.

Yay!

Arch Enemy and Opeth are terrible faggot music.

They should play earlier material or stay dead.

Jacky said:

ah yes.

RichHorror said:

i would have to agree Sir Richard.

terrible faggots don't even give you a reacharound or tell you you smell pretty

i can't wait for all the good faggots next time i see tegan and sara

The only good faggots are the ones that decorate your apartment. Or blow you with a blonde wig on.

I will cry like a little girl.

inject-now said:

im sure it will be mostly "amott-era" songs, one or two off of symphonies and reek. think about it, jeff walker and bill steer arent really into metal anymore, they'll probably go for the more melodic stuff (necrotism, heartwork) i doubt they would touch upon the old grind stuff...would be nice though

Luckily I saw them on the "Symphonies of Sickness" tour!

i think theyll do a couple off each of the first 3, just because they know that 75% of their fan base are only into the first couple albums.

I saw them open for Death at the Channel oh so many moons ago...I think it was the Tools of the Trade tour but don't remember...

AUTOPSY_666 said:

ah yes, 1995, the year I became a teenager.

Sept. 4th, 1990 (Church House Inn, Providence, RI.)

PHLEGM
CARCASS
DEATH

I was 20.

I was 11.

Sucker!

in 93 i was 7

or 8

i was 14.

You were all born too late for the legendary shows.

I think the first (what I would consider) legenday show I went to was Sepultura (Arise tour), Ministry (Psalm 69), and Helmet at the Rocky Point Palladium. I'm aware of the non-legendary-ness. Yeah, you're old.

I was at that show too!

Dec. 5th, 1992

That's the one! I was 13.

I was five. That show sounds horrendous though.