By Tim Henderson
of Brave Words and Bloody
Knuckles Magazine-Canada
3/12/01 Page 5
ARCH ENEMY have a new vocalist, her name being Angela Gossow. Feedback on the band's website, www.archenemy.net, has been extremely positive towards her, calming several weeks of nervousness. Angela is not new to the metal scene. Beginning her career in 1991, she previously played with two extreme death metal bands, ASMODINA and MISTRESS. In 1999, while working for a metal mag, Angela interviewed Michael Amott. She told him about her band and passed him off a tape and a live video. In November of 2000 Angela got the call to come and rehearse with Arch Enemy and found herself in Fredman Studios three weeks later. Angela's identity has been under wraps because the band wanted people to judge the music first. She is thankful for the fans massive response and is thrilled to be playing with some of the best guys in the brutal metal scene. Arch Enemy will soon embark on the Wages Of Sin world tour. Contact Angela by e-mail at: angela@archenemy.net. "We're back," bassist Sharlee D'Angelo shouts! "When you least expect it (and when you least want us, perhaps). Seriously, I think we managed to make a quite impressive slab of pure metal, if I may say so myself. As you've all noticed, we've got a new singer and - let me tell you - it's the best thing that has happened to us in a long while. She came as a breath of fresh air when we needed it most and I am very impressed by the work she has done on the album. That also gave the rest of us a well deserved kick in the rear. This line-up is the strongest we've ever had (or anybody else, for that matter), so I am very much looking forward to test the waters out on the road and see what you people think. We're coming at you at 666 mph. The transition is complete." Sharlee March 5th 2001
"I'm expecting twins," enthuses JAG PANZER guitarist Mark Briody, "so we'll have to arrange touring around that." The event isn't scheduled until this summer, after the release of Mechanized Warfare, the ten latest tracks from the Colorado thrashers. Recently, Jag Panzer sandwiched a trip to Chicago between recording and the just completed mixing, at Morrissound Studio. There, they mixed business with pleasure, coupling the photo shoot for Mechanized Warfare with a triumphant perforamce at the inaugrual Prog-Power festival. "I thought it was great: a lot of people, an attentive audience and one of the best run shows I've ever attended, from a band point of view. Everything was well done. The promoter didn't treat you like cattle. We all had a great time." While the Jags were one of the heavier entries in a line-up that also included Destiny's End, Pain Of Salvation and Evergrey, the invitation actually came about through Briody's computer fixation. "The promoter is one of the regular posters on the Perpetual Motion board, one of the bulletin boards on the Internet for progressive and heavy music. I post on there quite a bit and we got to know each other from there. So when he was putting the festival together, we were one of the first people he asked. He'd seen us at PowerMad, in Baltimore, and liked us, so he asked if we'd be interested in his Chicago gig."
