Arch Enemy (love 'em!)

Angela is my favorite metal chick. Saw them live last year and she absolutely ripped the stage up with her vocals and blew away the crowd. It was a festival so i'm sure people were in the crowd that disliked them. Even if I hadnt liked them going in, I sure as hell would have loved them going out. I even interviewed Angela via email for an essay on chicks of metal last year.
 
Not really fond of either but I'd actually say early Arch Enemy craps on At The Gates. Though I regard At The Gates to be one of the worst accidentally influential banRAB in metal. I seriously hate the whole melodeath thing but Arch Enemy brought a bit of (slightly American in a way) brutality to the sound that made it almost good.

It took all these years for someone to perfect it but I think Arsis does the genre a tiny bit of justice. In fact songs like A Diamond For A Disease are actually pretty solid.
 
If they would cut the vocals completely and make more songs like Enter the Machine or Marching on a Dead End Road, then I would listen to them.

I was a little surprised when I found out the singer was a woman.
 
I have Doomsday Machine (not sure if it's thier only album) and I like it. I didn't even realize the singer was female until a few days later when I cracked open the liner notes, hehe.
 
Angela Gossow is really interesting because if you listen to a conversation with her like on youtube or something, she has like an accent to her and her voice is really annoying when she talks. but her singing voice is a great metal voice.
 
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