Did that work for Arch Enemy? I know they are a very credible Swedish Death Metal band but I don't think they benefit from a female singer.

It draws attention to a metal band if they have a female lead but if your band is shit then your band is shit it won't sell your records just based on a female vocalist because people won't hang around. But like Dem said it will get your band noticed.

Like if you go In to an adult book store and you are trying to pick out a film there is a cover star that really catches your eye and you buy it on the strength of that but if he or she can't act then you won't bother with any of their follow up work ;)

I suppose I understand completely where extreme metal is concerned, not so much with Arch Enemy as it was the fact it was Mike Amott's band which piqued my interest - having been a MASSIVE Carcass fan back in the day, but recently I posted about a one-woman Black Metal solo project Myrkur and the fact that it was a woman doing it all on her own which got me listening to her stuff!

Stuff like Within Temptation, Delain and The Gathering is metal music that only works with a female singer!

Find the panda amongst the Norwegian black metal musicians!

Please don't give it away if you find him!

Arch Enemy is a strange one because i got into them with the 2003 album Burning Bridges and the wonderfully catchy Silverwing.

So due to owning and liking this album i took notice when they returned with new singer Angela Gossow and immediately bought Wages of Sin due to it having a covers cd with it's initial pressing. Gossow has a great voice and eats a lot of male singers for breakfast. (I recommend the Live Apocalypse dvd by the way).

I've liked them ever since. Oddly despite really liking the stuff with new singer Alissa, and thinking her gorgeous to boot, i haven't picked up the War Eternal album yet.

I do tend to look at them as a very good metal band rather than a band with a female vocalist.

Dimmu Borgir - Gateways

Satyricon-Fuel for Hatred (uncensored video)

Celtic Frost - Rex Irae (Requiem)

Satyricon - Orgasmatron

Satyricon - I got erection (Turbonegro cover)

Satyricon - Born For Burning (Bathory Cover)

Bathory - War Pigs

Bathory - Black Diamond

Bathory - Ace Of Spades

This is superb!

Witchery - Fast As A Shark

Death - Painkiller

Immortal - All Shall Fall

Akercocke - Leviathan

How Finland sells throat pastilles!

https://www.facebook.com/WhatTrended...6958654838845/

Great song and the video ain't half bad eighter ;)

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...ae&oe=57082F4B

:pound:

Slayer - At Dawn They Sleep

Slayer - Black Magic

Two classics from a pair of underrated albums IMO :nod:

Slayer - Dittohead

Slayer - Gemini.


What were they thinking? Sticking this brilliant track at the very end of their worst album.

Yeah, that album is bloody awful!

Slayer - Chemical Warfare

Slayer - Raining Blood


Best. Slayer. Song. Ever!

Love this live version from Decade of Aggression

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgJ5wKJds-Q

Loved that tour, and the album.

This is their best song IMO, it's been my favourite since hearing it, and them for the first time at Monsters of Rock '92 at Donington \m/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNFglDcW7dQ

It's definitely up there for me as well.

Plus Seasons in the Abyss, Mandatory Suicide, Angel of Death, South of Heaven and Gemini.

Deicide - Homage for Satan

Dying Fetus - One Shot, One Kill

Beyond Dawn - When Beauty Dies

Satyricon - Havoc Vulture

Mayhem - Anti

Gehenna - Adimiron Black

That Hate Forest cd turned up.
Demos from 2000 from a US firm called Elegy records. Not as "grim" as their studio material, though that is the nature of demos by and large.

Ordering this reissue of Mayhem's Live At Leipzig next.