My Story As Metal Frontwoman #49: Alissa White-Gluz (Arch Enemy) 

Hey thank you for supporting metal music

Given that gen Z is the youngest current generation of metalheads, which means that gen x/old millennials are the parents of generation Z, I’m rather optimistic about that. Boomers would be less liberal about that (even though they started metal).

It's *advice; not advices. The interviewer keeps saying the same thing... it has no plural.

🐽 dracula then

I saw them in February and was blown away by how good they sounded

Lets try to make it happen at John Smith Rock Festival in few weeks 😊🤟

@@chaoszine fingers crossed Thanks Aarto!! 😊

@@chaoszine hi Out of curiosity, did ya manage to interview Tomi Joutsen at the festival?

@@bn5202 unfortunately not yet. 😔 But it will happen eventually 😊👍

@@chaoszine thanks for replying. I'll be keeping my eye open for an interview. Love Amorphis, TJ is my favorite vocalist and you are definitely my favorite for interviewers. You do great work, thanks for that!

Just did one with Elize Ryd. 😊

The Agonist disbanded this summer due to the increasing costs of touring, Vicky continues music with her nu-metal band Sicksense. Imo Vicky’s vocal technique is much better than Alissa, but she lacks the beautiful tone, charisma, and the song writing skills Alissa has. I feel like that has been the core reason why the band’s numbers kept going down over the years. I LOVE Alissa’s stuff with The Agonist, exceptional vocal composition and lyrics on her part, and I just wish that there was more to listen to. Your gut feeling about the transition is correct though, oh boy so much has happened. Will be a long comment. Alissa explained a bunch of times that she didn’t leave but she was kicked out. In one particular podcast she attended with her boyfriend Doyle, she explicitly talked about how they let her know she was kicked out in a parking lot, how she was suddenly blocked from the social accounts she was managing, how much “they stole from her”, and how she felt betrayed. She wrote a bunch of songs in Arch Enemy as well that are apparently about the betrayal. She also wished that Vicky herself reached out to her to have the transition with her knowledge, like the one she had with Angela. She did everything she could to front both The Agonist and Arch Enemy and arrange the tour dates accordingly, but eventually it was not well received by the band and led to her unwilling departure. After that podcast, The Agonist feels the need to release a statement of their own because how “she is badmouthing them every chance she gets”. They tell their own side of the story explaining how “she was miserable on tour”, how rude she was towards the crew and the fans, and a bunch of other stuff about how unprofessional she was as she quit but came back many times, and always delivered lyrics and vocals late. That’s why “they could only release 3 albums”. They deny blocking her from the accounts, and continue touching upon Alissa’s diva attitude based on her response in the parking lot conversation: “There is nobody else that could do what I do”. Once she makes plans to join another band without consulting them, they see this as the last straw since they are not a high grossing band like Arch Enemy is. They start looking for other vocalists while they are still on tour with Alissa, and eventually reaches an agreement with Vicky. Vicky is apparently talented, much more approachable, and very strict with deliverables and they manage to release many albums in a shorter span of time. When those albums do not make good numbers though, Vicky in an interview claims that Alissa has been “trying to kill the band ever since she was fired” via the use of her influence within the industry. Alissa and Angela as Kult Management releases a long statement about how that is not true - she is extremely busy with her current projects, hasn’t been in contact with the band in years, and Vicky is probably “misinformed or confused”. They are both women that are working hard to make their music heard, and Vicky can feel free to reach out to her for help. The back and forth, to my knowledge, stops here. Both sides are right in their own arguments, but I guess we will never know the exact truth - if her being fired the way she was is 100% justified, and if she did play any part for The Agonist’s eventual disbanding.

This interview was very rushed unfortunately due time limits on her schedule so that is why I guess it can feel a bit rushed. 😊

Of course she won't..It's such a shame they parted ways this way, I just hope they could all talk around a table and clear things up, yes, they were bandmates, but friends above all..I mean I don't know them personally, but life's too short to hold grudges, especially when you were such good friends with said people.

I put her in the dark and my buddy turned off her mics & amps (when she was a bitch at the club) don't fuck with the sound person(the guys were pissed) it was great