ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow has commented on
guitarist Christopher Amott's decision to return to
the band almost two years after he left the group at
the end of the "Doomsday Machine" recording sessions
in 2005.

"Yessssss, I can finally blurt it out: HE IS BACK!"
she writes on her MySpace page. "Our brother Chris has
returned to his rightful place, that is being a guitar
hero in ARCH ENEMY! It was hard to sit on the news for
all these weeks. 'Cuz really all I wanted to do was
running up and down the streets and cry it out loud.
It felt so wrong without him, although Fredrik
[Åkesson] is a wonderful guy and a great talent. But
Chris [Amott] and Michael started this band together
and they are ARCH ENEMY for me. Their signature guitar
work is what got me into this band in the first place.
Plus, we missed Chris dearly as a person, as a great
friend. He is out of school and back into rock 'n'
roll!"

ARCH ENEMY has spent the last weeks locked in intense
rehearsals at its homebase in Halmstad, Sweden,
putting the final touches to the new material and
integrating Christopher on the new songs for the
forthcoming studio album. More news on this will
follow in the next few days.