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The Eagle Flies Alone - Arch Enemy with Angela Gossow



Interview with Angela Gossow

WM: How did you first get in touch with Rock and Metal and who were the first bands that influenced you to create your singing style?

Angela Gossow : I discovered Metal through a British radio station when I was about 15 years old. They played a lot of Thrash and Deathmetal. I got hooked on Metallica, Slayer, Death, Carcass, Napalm Death, Entombed, Morbid Angel… When I started singing in that style these were the bands that influenced me most.

Wikimetal: Arch Enemy has a very unique sound, how would you describe your music to someone who had never heard the band? Is there a way to label the sound of Arch Enemy?

AG: We play Extreme Metal. We mash up elements of Thrash, Death, Speed, Prog, Melodic and Classic Metal. We work with a broad range of influences. This is why our sound is very distinctive and pretty unique.MORE

Angela Gossow on Wiki Content note, mentions of eating disorders.

Angela Gossow was born to Orthodox Christian parents in Cologne, Germany, and had three siblings. She was 17 when her parents divorced. Further financial troubles came in when their business went bankrupt. Being anorexic and bulimic further added to her woes.^[1] It was at this time that she decided to move out of home and join the metal band Asmodina. After graduation she joined an advertising company as a trainee, specializing in marketing. She simultaneously began studying economics. In 1997, the band Asmodina split and Gossow formed another band: Mistress.

Gossow is one of the first among a small number of women to front as a death metal vocalist. She has a mezzo-soprano vocal range, with a death growl.^[2] She uses false cord screams.^[3] Her main influences are Jeff Walker of Carcass, David Vincent of Morbid Angel, Chuck Billy of Testament, John Tardy of Obituary, Chuck Schuldiner of Death, Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, and Rob Halford of Judas Priest.^[4]

Gossow joined Arch Enemy in November 2000, after the removal of lead singer Johan Liiva.^[5] She had previously interviewed guitarist Michael Amott for a German webzine. While interviewing Amott, Gossow gave him a demo that she described as a "poor quality" video of a performance at a club. After firing Liiva in 2000, the band called in Gossow for an audition. Amott later said that "she wiped the floor with all the other contenders." She then proceeded to record Wages of Sin with Arch Enemy.
On the eve of a 2002 tour, Gossow was diagnosed with nodules, which almost stopped her from growling. However, after some vocal therapy, she was able to recover her voice and she proceeded to begin taking piano and screaming lessons from renowned coach Melissa Cross. She continues to work in close conjunction with her.
On 17 March 2014, it was announced that Gossow was stepping down as Arch Enemy vocalist in order to pursue other interests and spend more time with her family. Gossow recommended Alissa White-Gluz from Canadian metal band The Agonist as her replacement, and will remain business manager for the band.^[6]MORE

The World Is Yours - Arch Enemy with the new vocalist Alissa White-Gluz



INTERVIEW: Alissa White-Gluz – Arch Enemy

Alissa: I didn’t really make an intentional goal of being a frontperson of a metal band but I always had a very loud voice, I would even get into trouble at school for being really loud! I was a really good student but my voice just projects so I always had this really loud voice, I was always pretty fearless when it came to anything and I still am I guess. I grew up in a house where my Mom, my Dad, my older sister and I have a younger brother too but he was younger than me but he was just a little baby when I was growing up and these are all music lovers and my sister actually is also a frontperson in a touring band and so we have this great respect and appreciation for music. My Mom has vinyls on the wall of Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie, Janet Joplin, Nirvana, Eric Clapton, The Who, Deep Purple, just all sorts of really cool music influences. MORE

Alissa White-Gluz

Alissa White-Gluz (/əˈliːsə ˈɡlʌz/;^[2]) (born 31 July 1985) is a Canadian vocalist, best known as the lead vocalist of the Swedish melodic death metal band Arch Enemy,^[3] and former lead vocalist and founding member of the Canadian metalcore band the Agonist.^[4] Her vocal style includes both growling and clean vocals (singing).^[5] Although primarily associated with melodic death metal and metalcore, she has appeared as a guest vocalist for power metal, symphonic metal and deathcore bands, notably Kamelot, Delain and Carnifex and has performed live with Nightwish and Tarja Turunen.
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White-Gluz was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as the second of three children.^[6][7] Her grandparents were prisoners in concentration camps during World War II and managed to escape. Their experiences in the camps would go on to inspire the Arch Enemy song, "First Day in Hell".^[8]MORE

Who are they?

Guitarist Yoshi and vocalist Rami formed Aldious in Osaka in June 2008.^[3] The name Aldious was created by Rami shortening the phrase "Ultimate Melodious."^[8] In November they took part in the compilation album Red Hot Burning Hell Vol.16,^[9] soon after which guitarist Ruki and bassist Sawa left. In January 2009, Toki and Kaze joined as guitarist and bassist respectively, later the band released their debut four-track EP Dear Slave on November 7.^[9] Kaze left in December, and drummer Aruto joined in January 2010. March saw the return of Sawa on bass and around this time Aldious formed their own record label, Bright Star Records.^[9] Their first single "Defended Desire", released July 7, reached the number 4 position on Oricon's Indies chart and number 49 on its regular chart.^[9][10] In April, Bright Star became a sublabel of Spinning and the band released their debut album Deep Exceed on October 13, 2010.^[3] It reached number 15 on the charts.^[11];MORE

Aldious (アルディアス) / We Are (Full Version) from new album "We Are"


Aldious - Sweet Temptation


Aldious (アルディアス) / Monster (Full Version）from new mini album “ALL BROSE”

Lady A Blues Band performing at the Dockside Boot Key Harbor / Conch Records Music Video Fest



Lady A w/ West Coast Women's Blues Revue


Lady A sings "Death Letter"






Lady A Sues Original Lady A Who Has Been Singing the Blues Since the '80s

Anita is an established blues singer and social justice advocate who lives in Seattle. The 61-year-old musician has been professionally going by “Lady A” since the ‘80s when she performed in a Motown group called Lady A & the Baby Blues Funk Band. She was with the group for 18 years before she went solo. Her first album under the name Lady A came out in 2010 ("BlueZin the Key of Me"), and she’s released four more since (the fifth album, "Lady A: Live in New Orleans" comes out July 18th, on the singer’s birthday).MORE

Definitely not the usual black clad rock LOL.

tricot "potage" MV



The Regrettes - I Dare You [Official Music Video]


The Big Moon - Take A Piece

Lebanon Hanover - The Last Thing



For all your 80s nostalgia needs from a modern band, LOL.

Lebanon Hanover

Big Joanie - Fall Asleep



Big Joanie - How Could You Love Me?



Women of Color have always had a place in punk. Big Joanie is here to remind you of that

Big Joanie is the sort of band you get to a show early for. In the past three years, the London-based group has self-released three rough-hewn EPs on their own imprint, Sistah Punk, each one featuring songs that blend tangling post-punk guitar lines, spit-shined hooks, and a “sprinkling,” Chardine says, of black liberation politics. Their most recent EP’s knotty title track, “Crooked Room,” took inspiration from a lecture by Seattle-born writer Melissa Harris-Perry, who compared life as a black woman in a white patriarchy to trying to find a true vertical in a room where all the angles are out of whack. “That’s exactly what it is,” Steph Phillips, Big Joanie’s lead vocalist and guitarist, says when we meet in a cozy cafe near South London’s Caribbean Brixton Market. “[Society] distorts the world around us to try and make us see things not as they are, or to try and make us fail.”

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On stage, Steph has a serene focus and a deep, assured singing voice. But she admits to a natural reserve, explaining that she lived vicariously through the riot grrrl music she devoured as a teenager in the middle England town of Wolverhampton. “As a very shy person, I loved hearing someone else stand up for themselves,” she says. A couple of hours away across the Midlands, the outgoing, quick-to-laugh Chardine grew up nurturing a love for Nirvana in Kettering, the town “where all the fucking government parties do their research for middle England.” In London, bassist Estella Adeyeri was listening to British alternative radio station XFM — “back when it wasn’t just blokey music,” she says. MORE

Here is a fun one with Metric:

Metric - Now or Never Now (Official Video)



It hurts to turn the radio on
Stamina's gone
My spirit is weak
Because every time I start to move on
Keep hearing that song
I'm brought to my knees
To permanently see in reverse
Take the remorse out of defeat
Because everything that's under my skin
Where I end and begin
Still belongs to me
I'm fine to sit and stare at the door
Can't run anymore
Too weary to stand
I'm bound in the effect with the cause
My life is on pause
It's out of my hands
To perfectly perform in reverse
There's no way to rehearse
There's nothing to plan
Because everything that's under my skin
Where I end and begin
That's who I am
Oh, only silence can restore
The sense of place I had before
Oh, only silence can repair
My sense of self I lost somewhere
Oh oh, oh, only silence can restore
The sense of place I had before
Oh, only silence can repair
My sense of self I lost somewhere
Because the last time I let myself feel this way
It was a long, long time ago
And now we get so scared, and we get so scared
To be nowhere left alone
Because the last time you let yourself feel this way
It was a long, long time ago
And now we get so scared, and we get so scared
To be nowhere left alone
Because it's now or never now
It's now or never now, now, now
Because it's now or never now
It's now or never now, now, now
Because it's now or never now
It's now or never now, now, now
Because it's now or never now
It's now or never now, now, now, now, now, now, now
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Emily Haines / James Shaw

Content Note: Gore and Blood in the video.

Songs We Love: Myrkur, 'Ulvinde'

Yes, destroy evil with evil," Amalie Bruun sings in her native Danish at the beginning of "Ulvinde," her latest song as Myrkur. In the accompanying music video, Bruun crawls through mossy roots and stumbles over frigid rock outcroppings. Occasionally, she spits up blood.

It's rough stuff, lyrically and visually, but Bruun's singing voice is beautiful. Where most metal singers either croon or belt, she rings. Her delivery, full of sustaining notes that subtly decay, is reminiscent of choral music — with all the ritualism, religiosity and awe it entails. Bruun can scream, too, and the shots of her engaged in a commanding, full-throated shriek entangle with shots of her bloody mouth. The juxtaposition of those forces — Bruun's two voices, distorted guitars and violent images — gives her work a vital charge.MORE