Angela Gossow

We have a really special episode today.

We have Arch Enemy vocalist Lauren Hart here and Arch Enemy manager Angela Gossow.

How are you both doing? I'm great.

good where are you coming from on the zoom I feel like we're all in different time zones firstly so where is everyone so basically I'm

Arch Enemy have done this twice before.

Angela Gossow replaced Johan Leva, and the next album was Wages of Sin, the one that made them.

Alissa replaced Angela, and the next one was War Eternal, the one that made them bigger.

The pattern says the first album with a new singer is the one that defines the era, and Amott knows that, which is why slowly isn't a warning.

Compositional fatigue.

You know, you gotta remember that Angela Gossow, she's not an original member.

It was Michael Amet.

Michael Amet is the guy who is running the show.

So again, that's just one thing.

It may be, you know, I don't know if she is different because like I said, this is going to be my first time seeing her sing for Arch Enemy.

And I have not, unfortunately, seen Arch Enemy with Angela Gossow.

She left before I got the chance.

Who, from this era, I think is one of those people who you would maybe recognize even if you didn't know Walls of Jericho very much.

And I think in, uh, i- in a similar position for hardcore, what someone like Angela Gossow was at the time in more, like, extreme metal in being, for lots of people who, you know, weren't yet accustomed to or hadn't yet m- opened their minds to that possibility, a startlingly, you know, ferocious and strong female figure at the front of, like, this r- ultra-heavy band.

And they're, they're kind of people who would probably, like, you know, squirm a little bit a- at that even being highlighted, 'cause they just got on with it and just, you know, were, were being great.

But pioneering representation matters, you know? And there was, you know, patronizing writing about people like this at, at the time and, and I think it, it's her and Marta from Bleeding Through in the, uh, American metalcore scene at this time who kind of helped pave the way for that not really being a thing that has to be highlighted so much anymore.