Deceivers is the eleventh studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy.
Writing began as early as October 2018: main songwriter and guitarist Michael Amott mentioned on an interview with Loudwire that he had "a few new ideas already for new stuff".
[8] In February 2021, on "The Riffhard Podcast", lead guitarist Jeff Loomis revealed he was "doing solos for the new Arch Enemy album", though adding he did not know when it would be released.
[9] All of the album was recorded in Europe, except for Loomis' guitar contributions: due to traveling restrictions, he was unable to join the rest of the band, so they ended up "having him do his solos in the studio in Seattle".
The album was officially announced on 27 January 2022;[13] the third single "Handshake with Hell" was released eight days later on 4 February 2022, along with its accompanying music video.