Amaranthe are about to start recording, and Elize Ryd has put a date on it.
Speaking to Chaoszine, the singer said the band have booked a drum session with producer Jacob Hansen in two and a half weeks, which is where every Amaranthe record begins before the rest of the instruments and the vocals follow. She would not say when it will be finished, only that it is in the making.
It will be the second album with Mikael Sehlin on the growls, after he took over that part of the band's three way vocal arrangement for The Catalyst. “It's been three years since The Catalyst was released which feels, to me, insane,” Ryd said of the gap.
The one description she offered of the music points backwards rather than sideways: a little bit like back to the roots Gothenburg metal sound, she said, with a lot of those extraordinary Gothenburg riffs which we all love. For a band whose last decade has leaned harder on pop melody and electronics than on the city their guitarist came up in, that is worth noting. Olof Mörck's own history runs through Dragonland and Nightrage, and Gothenburg is where it starts.
The only new music from the band this year is the standalone single Chaos Theory, out in February.