Also, because I was an Arch Enemy fan before and I knew it was a good Arch Enemy album that I’d happily buy and listen to on my Discman! Ha ha!” I wasn’t so much anticipating the fans’ reactions, because I had been so embraced by Sharlee, Michael, Daniel, Angela and Nick, and I just felt really confident that I’d delivered great vocals for a great album. Significantly, the response to War Eternal was almost universally positive, with the band’s new frontwoman receiving a large part of that acclaim for her dynamic and distinctive contributions to the new songs. I didn’t even have to be the same person today I was yesterday.”Īs transitions go, Alissa White-Gluz’s assimilation into Arch Enemy was as seamless and slick as it gets. I’d just met the love of my life and I’d joined a band that was the opposite of everything I’d experienced before. In a way, it came down to being 27 and thinking, ‘Am I gonna die this year?’ because that’s what people do when they’re 27, right? But actually no. Nothing is written in stone, everything can be burned and changed. “I liked the idea that you could be present, but look forward. “It was a feeling that if every day in your life is a page in your book, you can lighten the load by burning the past,” Alissa explains. Now a seemingly permanent fixture in the band’s live sets, As The Pages Burn stands out as the most lyrically incisive among them: an inspirational anthem about discarding the baggage of the past and striding confidently into a new day. Having experienced such a life-changing event, it comes as no surprise that Alissa was in a philosophical mood when she penned the lyrics to songs for her first album with Arch Enemy, War Eternal (2014). As soon as he started to show me the songs for War Eternal that didn’t have any vocals yet, it was just so nice to hear a song and it’s already kickass, you know? There was nothing like, ‘Well, this part’s not so great and I need to rearrange this…’ It was just, ‘This is amazing and I’m so excited to write on it!’” I knew Arch Enemy’s entire catalogue musically, so I was already familiar with the writing style to some degree. As a fan of the band she was joining, the task of writing lyrics over Michael’s relentlessly explosive trademark sound was one she relished. ![]() So it was this weird thing, like, ‘OK, so this is actually the best year of my life!’ It did kind of feel like a cosmic event or something, I guess.”Īnother indication that Alissa was destined to be a member of ArchĮnemy was that she swiftly developed a winning songwriting partnership with Michael. Then, within one month I met Doyle and got the call from Arch Enemy, and that was right before I turned 28. “My friends and family were always joking, like ‘Don’t join the 27 Club! You’ve got to get through 27!’ and all that. “That moment in particular in 2013, it was weird because I was 27 at the time,” she says. I was on tour with Kamelot at that point, and we were in South Korea when I got an email from Angela that said, ‘Can you jump on the phone with Michael real quick?’”Īs you might expect, Alissa was available for a chat with Michael Amott, and within 10 seconds of connecting to the Swedish guitarist, she found herself with an irresistible offer to become the new singer in Arch Enemy, with Angela’s full approval and endorsement as a rather lovely bonus. “I’d met Michael and the rest of the guys a bunch of times, although I didn’t really keep in touch with them. “It was all relatively simple, which sounds strange, but I was friends with Angela already and we spoke all the time,” Alissa notes.
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