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Posted by: Smikey2006 Jan 15 2009, 09:08 PM

Discuss

Posted by: Mandos Jan 15 2009, 09:10 PM

Not much to discuss.

Great looking, better than average growl and good on stage.

Posted by: superize Jan 15 2009, 09:15 PM

Great looking and and awsome voice....

I actually belived it was a guy that sang when i first started listening to Arch Enemy

Posted by: Smikey2006 Jan 15 2009, 09:20 PM

i always pictured a skinny guy with long black hair.. then when i saw them live i was like OMG WTF AWSOME! such a great band!

Posted by: Rob Wilson Jan 15 2009, 09:22 PM

yeah, i thought the singer was male for about a year hehe

Posted by: Mandos Jan 15 2009, 09:23 PM

Well, there's a guy singing on the first few albums. Angela joined to sing on Wages of Sin.

Posted by: superize Jan 15 2009, 09:25 PM

The first Arch Enemy album i listened to was their latest and i was 100% sure that there was i guy singing untill i saw a video of them.......

Shes got a sick voice

Posted by: jer Jan 15 2009, 09:25 PM

Great stage presence too.

I saw them in 2005 on Ozzfest.

(with Gus G on guitar instead of Chris Amott)

Posted by: Smikey2006 Jan 15 2009, 09:27 PM

i just became so jealous of you.., Gus G is my absolute idol but ive never gotten to see firewind .. or dream evil when he was with them

Posted by: jer Jan 15 2009, 09:30 PM

Well, I saw Firewind in 2007 at ProgPower USA in Atlanta.

AWESOME SHOW!!!!!

Posted by: Toni Suominen Jan 15 2009, 09:47 PM

She's a pretty good singer, maybe her style is a little bit one-sided but overall she's a good performer.

Posted by: Fsgdjv Jan 16 2009, 02:35 AM

Shemale who can't sing.

Posted by: ZakkWylde Jan 16 2009, 02:47 AM

Keep your critique fair and objective please

Posted by: VinceG Jan 16 2009, 03:23 AM

Average melodeath. Overrated singer just because shes a women and can growl, it seems like many guys goes crazy over her just because she's a women in extreme metal. Her gender overlook the fact that the music is staggering compare to other Extreme bands out there.

Posted by: Enucleation Jan 16 2009, 03:49 AM

I absolutely love Arch Enemy they are quickly becoming one of my favorite bands. Angela Gossow is one of my favorite singers.

However I hate the fact that she gets so much attention just because she's female, for some reason or another I just really love her growl.

Posted by: Rated Htr Jan 16 2009, 08:20 AM

I love her growls but I have to admit that people to give her to much attention just because she's a woman but,overall, she's a great singer that can't be ignored

Posted by: Fsgdjv Jan 16 2009, 08:58 AM

I was.

I'm sorry, when I went into the thread I didn't plan to write anything, but since the original post was "discuss", I thought I'd share my opinion.

To rephrase it so it's more fair and objective:

She looks very masculine, and I think her singing is really awful. She has the worst growl I have ever heard from a "big" band. I enjoy her growls as much as pig squeals.

Posted by: The Uncreator Jan 16 2009, 04:05 PM

One of my favorite singers, I think her growl is nearly untouchable of terms of sheer energy, passion, and brutality. She is an extremely nice person, When I met her she was nothing but nice and suprisingly soft spoken. Plus her lyrics are beautiful, very empowering

Posted by: Enucleation Jan 16 2009, 08:43 PM

It's weird how I'm in complete awe of her growls and some people despise em. Heh, strange how people's opinions work. But eh, fair enough. Can't force someone to like something.

But what does looking masculine have to do with anything? I mean, people don't bash Alexi Laiho too hard for looking like Avril Lavigne

Posted by: Wilska Jan 16 2009, 08:54 PM

Great singer, awesome live as well. Saw them on Sweden Rock Festival a couple of years back.
Can't really understand how anyone can think it's a guy when listening to them. To me it was clear from the start that it was a woman singing. You can easily hear the female characteristics in her growl.
Anyhoo, great singer, great band!

Posted by: Fsgdjv Jan 17 2009, 07:00 PM

I couldn't care less how she looks, but since the first few posts here went something like "omg she looks great" I thought I could add my view on that aswell.

Posted by: Trond Vold Jan 17 2009, 11:49 PM

I'm a huge Arch Enemy and Angela Gossow fan I think she's got a unique growl which fits the music nicely.
But i do prefer her voice on her first Arch Enemy albums.. on the latest it sounds like there's too much effects going on.

Posted by: Fullmetal_Tmd Jan 18 2009, 01:39 AM

Eh, she's okay, not really the best, but lots of people think she's the only female metal vocalist (in kansas atleast), so they're all crazy about her. I personally prefer Candace Kucsulain or Amber Valentine, but then again, I prefer everything over melodic death metal.

Posted by: kahall Jan 18 2009, 04:27 AM

The band sounds good and she looks pretty decent, but thumbs down on the growling. When anyone starts doing that I hit STOP. It is just not singing to me. I can handle a little of it in the middle of a song for effect but the whole song...uh uh.

Posted by: 29a Jan 18 2009, 10:12 PM

I remember when I was at an arch enemy concert and she was bitching around about people who were smoking in the hall. And she is vegetarian . But that aside it was a good concert.

- Jonas

Posted by: Canis Jan 18 2009, 10:40 PM

Can't say I like Arch Enemy... But as most other people here, I thought it was a dude first time I heard her When a friend showed me a live video, I was like "Who's the chick, and where's the singer?" and when she started to sing, I was all "Whhaaa!"

Same here

Posted by: Lian Gerbino Jan 19 2009, 12:15 PM

I love her growls! she has a perfect technique and a great live performance!

Posted by: helo92 Jan 31 2009, 09:12 PM

She is great i think she really improved the band
first i only knew the old albums with the man singin i didn't like them but then a friend showed me a video aof their new songs and now i really like the band

Posted by: Guitarman700 Feb 1 2009, 01:55 AM

I still think that Black Earth is the best arch enemy album. Johan Liiva, IMO, is just so much more raw and real than Angela, his voice isnt so drenched in effects. Early Arch Enemy Was much less toned down, than the current album.

Posted by: steiner666 Feb 6 2009, 10:04 PM

I LOVE Arch Enemy and have for years. Personally I think she does way better on vocals then Liiva... I think she's more dynamic, Liiva just yelled pretty much every song... she actually growls and does different things with her voice that just is much more entertaining... basically after she joined Arch Enemy, I stopped wishing that every song was an instrument. I can't wait to hear the remake of their older songs that Mike mentioned that they will be doing with her. And yeah, she definitely has an incredible stage presence for such a small little package.

On a non-music-related note, I also think she's a very attractive woman and she's very friendly in person. My g/f loves her too, which is awesome! (and she wasn't even mad when i told her that I asked her because she resembles her... lol)

Posted by: Artemus Feb 6 2009, 10:33 PM

As an extreme metal band, I'd agree that they're not the best but for a melodic death band they have some good material, which I really quite like. I originally got into them because it was Michael Amott (since I'm a fan of Carcass) and his brother, not because of Angela Gossow and their stuff with Liiva before Gossow was much more technical.
In terms of attractiveness.. hmm, ok (it's a matter of personal taste) but she doesn't hold a candle to Simone Simons
Still.. they'll never compare to the best melodic death metal band in the world: Dethklok

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