[ATTENDED: April 29, 2022] Arch Enemy
I wasn’t really familiar with Arch Enemy. I knew of them, but I wasn’t aware that they have had two female singers who can growl with the best of them.
The band is based in Sweden, but Angela Gossow–a legend among fans–was a German screamer who sang with the band for 14 years. When she retired, Gossow recommended Alissa White-Gluz from Canadian metal band The Agonist as her replacement, and remained business manager for the band.
So I got to see White-Gluz in all fo her blue-haired glory.
She held the entire audience rapt. Between her soaring voice and her guttural growls, it was hard to take your eyes off of her. Which I suppose the band is used to, but it is their band too, you know?
The music was heavy. Solid, old school metal with some modern flourishes.
Alissa was lead singer on two albums, but they played music from throughout their catalog.
The most notable thing for me, though, was that a Dad had brought his little girl (I think she was six), and she got up to the front (with big noise cancelling headphones on) and Alissa saw her and waved and later on gave her a setlist. Sweet.
It’s possible that Arch Enemy is the more popular of the two band (I believe they alternated headline acts), but it would be hard to follow Behemoth’s stage show, even with a highly polished and rocking show like Arch Enemy’s.
- Set Flame to the Night [taped entrance] ¶
- Deceiver, Deceiver ⊗
- The World Is Yours ¶
- Ravenous §
- War Eternal ψ
- My Apocalypse ™
- House of Mirrors ⊗
- The Eagle Flies Alone ¶
- Under Black Flags We March £
- Dead Bury Their Dead §
- Nemesis ™
- Fields of Desolation €
- Enter the Machine [taped exit] ™
⊗ Deceivers (2022)
¶ Will to Power (2017)
ψ War Eternal (2014)
£ Khaos Legions (2011)
™ Doomsday Machine (2005)
§ Wages of Sin (2001)
€ Black Earth (1996)
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