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The Vocalists of Arch Enemy
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the_future_modernesThe Eagle Flies Alone - Arch Enemy with Angela Gossow
Interview with Angela Gossow
Angela Gossow on Wiki Content note, mentions of eating disorders.
The World Is Yours - Arch Enemy with the new vocalist Alissa White-Gluz
INTERVIEW: Alissa White-Gluz – Arch Enemy
Alissa White-Gluz
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
