closer. SEX PISTOLS Former CARCASS guitarist ,
Mike Amott (currently in
ARCH ENEMY) has revealed that band would reunite for a tour.
In an interview with Swedish magazine Close-Up
,
Amott said that he and the band's guitarist, Bill Steer
met secretly in Halmstad, Sweden, during the last year to test CARCASS
material. A few months later, he joined the practice bassist / vocalist Jeff Walker
. During the tests, the drummer's seat was occupied by ARCH ENEMY drummer
,
Daniel Erlandsson. "sounded really good, and it was fun," said Amott
. "We rehearsed almost entire
album 'Heartwork' ."
The original plan was for CARCASS
play in several European festival circuit this year, which was not carried out.
"I hope we can do some reunion shows later, "Amott
expić." It would be fun and I love to play these songs live again. Unfortunately, it is not possible in the next 18 months at least, because ARCH ENEMY
has a totally full schedule. It is different to the others in the band, who are not actively working on their music careers. "
Asked if compose new songs, Amott
believes that" write something new seems unnecessary. People just want to hear the new material. "
After the tour
" Heartwork ",
Mike Amott left CARCASS . The band released a farewell album in 1996 entitled
"Swansong" , of \u200b\u200bwhich Amott
not have the best view: "It was not a fan of that album. But now we rehearsed a couple of songs and they sounded pretty good. I that album was ruined by production. sounded loose and basically all the extreme that characterized CARCASS
was gone. I was bored. "
on the opinion of his former teammates have on his current band Arch Enemy
:
"Jeff
has been clear in saying they suck. For his part, Bill
not get into this kind of music. I The boys moved away from metal world since the mid-90's, and have not returned since. Apparently they think it's a little strange that I'm still completely stuck in the metal. "
original drummer
CARCASS Ken Owen suffered a brain haemorrhage in 1999, and was hospitalized for 10 months, slowly emerging coma.
"Ken
okay today, but he is not a metalhead and drummer," Amott explained
. "He is not able to play an entire concert in an extreme band like CARCASS
. Yet I hope that if we do a tour, the trip with us and play a few songs each night. "
Earache Records plans to relaunch the catalog CARCASS
with extra material.
"
Jeff has negotiated with Earache
and has made the label a lot of money to pay us royalties old. Of course, money is something, but it would be great to go out and play these songs that are really classic in this genre . Never played material like this before, I say, are songs that somehow have become the soundtrack for the lives of some people. It would be fun to dig up this old corpse again. "
