http://www.vans.com/musicblog/

ALSO CHECK OUT THESE MAG SCANS!!

Enjoy!

Angela

Have you checked our gallery lately??We got some brand-new live shots!

I personally love the photos of Arch Enemy live in Vancouver, Canada btw.

UK FANS! GOT YOUR TICKET???

Metal Hammer Meltdown UK Tour
with Arch Enemy, Sabbat, Enslaved

Date: 27/04/2010
Venue: Wulfrun hall
City: Wolverhampton
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Date: 28/04/2010
Venue: O2 Academy
City: Glasgow
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Date: 29/04/2010
Venue: Academy
City: Manchester
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Date: 30/04/2010
Venue: HMV Forum
City: London
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Check out this really cool story/interview with and about Angela by Kirsty Evans of eastbayexpress.com!

Women in Metal
It’s been a long, hard road getting to a place where a woman like Angela Gossow can front a band like Arch Enemy.

“We get a lot of hate from guys,” Gossow said.

The history of women in metal was, until fairly recently, pretty depressing stuff. For young women first getting into the metal scene, it often seemed as if the only available roles were as a groupie, video vixen, or glammed-up figurehead vocalist — no musical contribution required. Even in the rare cases where women did show up in bands, the bands in question tended to be the kind that no one really took very seriously. Think Vixen — big hair, poppy choruses, and no musical talent of any kind — ridiculous even by hair-metal standards. If you didn’t want to take that route, the only other option was to adopt a rather butch, deliberately non-sexual persona and try to blend in with the male metalheads. The concept of being a strong woman who wasn’t trying to hide the fact that she was a woman? Heresy.[...]

[...]Consider Gossow of the Swedish band Arch Enemy, which is currently touring in support of The Root of All Evil. Gossow is no perky, skimpily dressed front woman trying to market metal in a way that’s palatable to the masses. Arch Enemy is a heavy band — “Iron Maiden meets death metal” — and Gossow’s singing style is more screaming and growling than cute sing-along choruses. She stubbornly refuses to assume the role of either a de-sexualized and invisible female metalhead or what she scornfully refers to as the “soap the car in the background” video prop.[...]

READ THE WHOLE INTERVIEW!

Metal Hammer Meltdown UK Tour
with Arch Enemy, Sabbat, Enslaved

Date: 27/04/2010
Venue: Wulfrun hall
City: Wolverhampton
BUY TICKETS

Date: 28/04/2010
Venue: O2 Academy
City: Glasgow
BUY TICKETS

Date: 29/04/2010
Venue: Academy
City: Manchester
BUY TICKETS

Date: 30/04/2010
Venue: HMV Forum
City: London
BUY TICKETS

ARCH ENEMY will embark on a U.K. headlining tour in April. Support on the inaugural “Metal Hammer Meltdown” tour will come from SABBAT and ENSLAVED.

Commented ARCH ENEMY frontwoman Angela Gossow: “We strongly felt its time to visit the shores of The United Kingdom Of Heavy Metal again! We miss you, ladies and gentlemen!!! We only did the Bloodstock festival in 2009. It was a fantastic gig and reminded us of why we love the Amott brothers’ homeland so much. Even better, we are bringing the U.K. cult thrashers SABBAT with us and the Norwegian sons of darkness, ENSLAVED! We will cook up a devastating setlist for this run and won’t leave any prisoners behind. Get ready for the ‘Metal Hammer Meltdown’ attack!”

Metal Hammer magazine editor Alexander Milas comments: “It’s been far too long since these shores were blackened by the ball-hefting brutality of ARCH ENEMY, so imagine our surprise when we heard they were bringing none other than the classic thrash of the almighty SABBAT and the prog-heavy viking metal of ENSLAVED in tow. It’s an honour to hang our banner on what promise to be a truly neck-snapping series of dates. Mosh ahoy!”

“Metal Hammer Meltdown” tour dates:

April 27 – Wolverhampton, UK @ Wulfrun hall
April 28 – Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy
April 29 – Manchester, UK @ Academy
April 30 – London, UK @ HMV Forum

Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, February 3.

This Toronto review just went live:

http://www.hellbound.ca/2010/01/archenemy-exodus-toronto-january-27-2010/

and another one:

http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/music/music-previews/everyone-needs-a-nemesis-5135/

Calgary feature:

http://thegauntlet.ca/story/14220

the Calgary university paper feature:

http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/586/17786/Arch-Enemy-check-in-from-the-road.html

Angela checked in from Arch Enemy’s ‘Tyrants Of Evil North American/Canada Tour’ and posted a tour blog on vans.com! More to come!

CHECK IT OUT!

Arch Enemy will tour France and Luxemburg in March 2010. Support will come from SAMAEL, NO RETURN and DYLATH LEEN.

The dates are as follows:

27 – March – 2010 Aeronef @ Lille (France)
28 – March – 2010 Elysee Montmartre Fest, Paris (France)
30 – March – 2010 Ninkasi Kao @ Lyon (France)
31 – March – 2010 La Laiteri, Strasbourg (France)
01-April-2010 – Rockhal Club @ Luxemburg (Luxemburg)

Arch Enemy are also confirmed to play:

03-April-2010 – Noisegate Festival 3 @ Neue Stadthalle, Langen (Germany)
04-April-2010 – Paaspop 2010 @ Schijndel (The Netherlands)


Angela Gossow comments: “Right now we are on tour in the U.S. with EXODUS, ARSIS and MUTINY WITHIN. All killer bands!!! You shouldn’t miss out on this awesome package. Last night in NYC was insane!”

“France is one of our best live markets and it is about bloody time we get to play Paris again! This time we are hell-bound to discover the metal hearts of Lille, Lyon and Strasbourg as well! We are currently working on dates in the UK for April too – with an awesome line-up – which will be announced shortly. Stay tuned!!!”

Check out this interview Angela did with http://www.metalmaniacs.com !

US – fans! Sign up for free at our forum and meet other fans at one of Arch Enemy’s upcoming US shows!! Should be fun

Angelas last tour report for Metal Hammer germany is now online! CHECK IT OUT HERE! (it’s in german – again..)