EXTREME METAL

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Without wanting this to sound sexist. Any band that gives her a shot would immediately become newsworthy and sell more tickets to gigs.

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.

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Justin101

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

[Justin101]

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!

[Susan Foreman]

Find the panda amongst the Norwegian black metal musicians!

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

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

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!

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.

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