Angela Gossow (ex-Arch Enemy) Guests on New Amaranthe Track, “Do or Die,” Her First Song Since 2011
Since leaving Arch Enemy in 2014, Angela Gossow has remained active behind the scenes — she’s the band’s manager — but hasn’t released any new music despite making vague promises to do so back in 2017. That’s too bad: she was (is) a fantastic vocalist and an absolutely captivating frontwoman, although I of course completely respect and understand her desire to quit the touring lifestyle to spend more time with family.
Gossow is back today with a guest vocal slot on Amaranthe’s new stand-alone single “Do or Die,” her first recorded appearance since Arch Enemy’s 2011 album Khaos Legions. Fans of both old school Arch Enemy and Amaranthe should find plenty to like here, as Gossow’s patented roar instantly makes the track heavier than Amaranthe’s typical fare (as does its subject matter), but it’s still got the clean-sung melodeath vibe and uplifting riffery for which Amaranthe have become known. It’s catchy af, too. It’s a jammer!
Comments Gossow on the collaboration:
“It was thrilling to join Amaranthe for a more extreme track and shooting a cutting edge video for it! This is no cozy studio performance, but real ice cold winds, sewages, cadavers and pouring rain – the reality we live in, the devastating legacy we leave to our future generations. Time to wake up, turn – and bang – some heads! Watch out for these guys and killer lady, they are going to crush you this year with a new album and some heavy touring!!!”
Amaranthe guitarist Olof Mörck states:
“While Amaranthe’s music is often uplifting, energetic and positive, sooner or later everyone needs to deal with the obvious fact that the world is literally crumbling around us – and it is crumbling fast, thanks to the short sighted abuse of our common Mother Earth! We talked to legendary Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy fame to do an entire package of a video and a song, outside of any normal album cycle, and let our different perspectives on metal collide in a massive explosion; and it resulted in ‘Do or Die!’ Together with Overbeck Media who shot the video, we delivered something really quite special, and Angela brings in a fresh strength to the trademark Amaranthe sound that is sure to resound all across the metal world! Death and Fire!!!”
Listen to “Do or Die” below and watch the Fardou Keuning-directed dystopian horror music video along with it.
