METAL/ROCK QUEENS + color red

Angela Gossow and Alissa White-Gluz

📸 Photo taken by Thorsten Seiffert

Arch Enemy // We Will Rise

Angela Gossow & Alissa White-Gluz

Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy

Angela Gossow

Celebrity crushes.

So fucking sexy!

All of them!!!

happy birthday trilogy to these queens (November 5-7)

yes I know Lorde is the odd one out here but I don't care

ARCH ENEMY with ANGELA GOSSOW TYRANTS OF THE RISING SUN (DVD) Tokyo 2008

The past and the present of Arch Enemy

Johan Liiva, Angela Gossow and Alissa White-Gluz (x)

Now, I’d like to talk about Khaos Legions. This must have been the final Arch Enemy record with Angela. I was listening to Alissa White-Gluz back in the Agonist days. Noone I knew had heard about them. They had a glorious album cover with a swan on it. And I listened to it sometimes and it would give me a headache.

Yet, many memorable road trips I’ve spent with this album. Even one with my friend Lou. Yesterday is Dead and Gone. Now I listen to it on the spur of the moment, whenever I feel feisty. It’s so full of angst, I want to rip up some of my books. Throw a bookcase over. Thrash my arms about and wreck things. For no reason at all!

‘You decieved, They believed in Your Bloodstained Cross.’ This was the angriest, most Defiant album Arch Enemy had made. It has a suitably melancholy dose of Gossou being pushed out of her band, of offering the role to another lady. They wanted to make one last, grand, final record with their lead singer. Whether it’s an Anthem or a Ballad, we get No Gods or Masters… “I am Who I Am, Take it Or Leave It. I’m a Rebel at Heart. No Gods, No Masters, My time Has Come.” As if having been parted from her dear friends, they wish to invoke sadness, and rage, both. Angela’s no Mickey Mouse chick.

This was truly their last good album.