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Well,says so the most respected woman in Metal-Pamela De Barres FUCK! Angela Gossow.

In a recent interview with Sonic Cathedral-Female Music Superstore,Angela Gossow said so of Disney’s mess-up with not letting Arch Enemy play. Click the above link to read more on that matter-what I wanted to point out is that Angela had said some really nice stuff about fronting an extreme metal band.

I respect this woman a lot! Seriously-nothing is more attractive than an independant,tough,good looking woman like Angela on stage. She has really defined the true sense of extreme-you don’t have kill cats to be extreme.This woman hit the music scene when no one had ever attempted what she would later do with Arch Enemy.Here’s a quick excerpt-

“When I joined Arch Enemy not too many female vocals bands were that popular or had any big record deals either. There were no household names in female metal at that time and quite honeslty I had never even heard of Nightwish or Lacuna Coil then. I mean for starters I come from a very extreme vocals background so I was just listening to extreme metal and there were no chicks in extreme metal (*laughs*). I did know of Holy Moses, but that’s more of a thrash metal sound. They were well, not as big or whatever, but they were from Germany as well as had a devout following in that genre of metal. So back then there wasn’t this whole operatic sounding version of metal circulating around as there is today. Lacuna Coil started getting popular around the same time as well I think. Myself, I wasn’t looking for any music that featured female vocals that weren’t in my aggressive style. I’m also really not the type of person who looks for idols really either. When I tried out for the band I wasn’t trying to be somebody I knew or grew up admiring, I just thought to myself I’m going to try out for the band being myself using my sound, style & approach. I just wanted to sound natural and see how it went.”

This woman is awesome. And no metal blog is complete without a mention about her.
You go Angela!
(Angela myspce/Arch Enemy myspace)