This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Swedish melodic death metal juggernaut Arch Enemy. To celebrate, the band are dropping their twelfth studio album, Blood Dynasty, on March 28th, 2025, via Century Media Records. Given the importance of the Swedish band in defining a whole genre of metal, longtime fans of the band will already have had expectations of what should sound like. However, as the singles have indicated, there is more to Blood Dynasty than meets the eye. While there is still plenty of Swedish melodeath metal shredding on the album, dig a little further into the album, and you will find the sound of a band who, while still sticking true to their core, have thrown the rulebook out of the window. For our latest Cover Story, V13 sat down with guitarist Michael Amott to disc...