EXCLUSIVE: ARCH ENEMY – The ABORT Interview (Issue 13 Preview)
September 15th, 2009 Filed under: 21 & Under With..., Exclusive! by admin
(Photo – Jordana Meilleur)
Currently preparing to unleash an assault on the world with their latest album The Root of All Evil and a new tour, Sweden’s Queen of Death Metal – Angela Gossow from Arch Enemy speaks with Canada’s Queen of Death Metal – Without Mercy vocalist Alxs Ness about their upcoming tour, female drummers in metal and…posing for Playboy?.
Alxs Ness: What else do you have coming up tour wise? You’re going to Asia first then Australia?
Angela Gossow: We’re doing a whole bunch of dates in Asia, then Australia and a bunch in New Zealand then we go back to Europe, we do 4 or 5 weeks in Europe into Christmas then we take 2 weeks break and then we’re going to go to the NAMM Convention in L.A. and then we’re going to tour the U.S. and Canada. We’re having a really hard time getting a venue in Vancouver because you guys are having the Winter Olympics in February. It sucks, it’s so difficult.
ABORT: It’s going to be insane. They’re shutting down transit; they’re shutting down a certain part of downtown as well.
AG: And they’re reserving all the venues on hold so we’re just having a real hard time to get a spot there to play. We can’t miss out on Vancouver. We’ve played there every time and it’s just a great show for us, we love the people. It’s a bit of a headache at the moment. Cancel the entire Winter Olympics because nobody cares anyway.
ABORT: You have a couple collaborations or guest appearances on some albums that were released this year: Never’s Back to the Front and Amaseffer’s Slaves for Life. Can you just tell us briefly a little about these bands and how you came to be involved with them?
AG: Well you know, they just [contacted] my MySpace and I actually read my MySpace messages; which is crazy because I don’t really have the time but I still do. But yeah, I just check out their music and if I like it I’ll do it. I get a lot of requests; from all kinds of gothic bands to power metal bands. Usually it’s not really my cup of tea and then I’ll say no but when I like the idea it’s easy because I have a home studio. They can just send me over the MP3 and I record the vocals and I email them back. That’s the beauty of 2009 and the modern life. You don’t have to meet up anymore in the studio. It’s cool when other bands obviously use that to get some promotion; if they get some recognition for it that’s cool. It’s just a guest appearance and the rest of the music the band needs to deliver.
ABORT: I guess it works both ways, for you as well because you’re helping out a more underground type band.
AG: That’s what I’ve also done, guest work for a band called Astarte. In Greece, they’re an all-female black metal band. There’s lots of underground stuff. It’s so exciting for these bands. I understand. It would have been very exciting for me if somebody would have guested on my previous bands’ release. It’s still one scene. I’m still connected to these bands, you know, I haven’t lost touch at all. I’m always up for it as long as I find the time. If I’m on tour then I don’t have anywhere to settle down and actually record something.
ABORT: Where can people find Arch Enemy on the internet?
AG: They can find us on archenemy.net which is our main website and myspace.com/archenemy. There you can find all the other MySpace pages. I’ve got a page called angelagossow.com where I present stuff like this, what we just talked about, when I do guest vocals in another band and I do some vocal workshops so that goes there. It’s not directly about Arch Enemy. It’s actually a big Arch Enemy fan running the website for me. I’m not self-absorbed enough to do that myself. (Laughs). Here name’s Nina. She had a fan page up and one day, cause she contacted me for something, I said, you know what if you want any input we can just make it the official AngelaGossow.com website and I’ll feed you the news directly. You don’t have to pick them up somewhere else on the internet. It’s nice. I do some stuff on the side so it’s nice to communicate it there. I’m obviously not having my own solo career in that sense but some stuff is just kind of a bit out of the line: all my nude appearances in Playboy for example.
ABORT: (Laughs) I see. That’s for all the fans out there in case you’re wondering. Do you want to give them the direct link?
AG: Everybody’s visiting the website now I’ll have to shut it down. No, no nude pics up there, sorry.
ABORT: Your hits will multiply by a million by tomorrow I guarantee it.
AG: We’re going to get a huge invoice because I’ll have exceeded the bandwidth!.
READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW IN ISSUE 13 OF ABORT MAGAZINE – October ’09
By Alxs Ness
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