Arch Enemy: Melodic Death and the Frontwoman Era

Sun, 05 Mar 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The single most important thing Arch Enemy ever did had nothing to do with a riff. In 2000 they hired a woman to do the growling, and in doing so they quietly dismantled one of extreme metal’s dumbest assumptions — that the person delivering the guttural roar had to be a man. Two decades and two frontwomen later, that decision looks like one of the more consequential hires in modern metal.

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Arch Enemy: Melodic Death and the Frontwoman Era