“War Eternal” – Arch Enemy’s First Song With New Vocalist

Arch Enemy – War Eternal from Jennifer santis on Vimeo.

As you may have seen from my post earlier this week, Angela Gossow has recently stepped down as Arch Enemy’s vocalist, and has been replaced by Alissa White-Gluz, who was in the Metalcore band The Agonist. Some people have cried out against this choice because of The Agonist’s Metalcore style and also the fact that Angela is so amazing, the idea of replacing her seems unfathomable.

Yet from this video, I think that Arch Enemy made a damned good choice. This is only one song, so I can’t make a judgement about how Alissa will fit in regarding future albums to come. Yet at least in this song, Alissa’s vocals fit in very well with the established style of the band. She sounds almost exactly like Angela!

However, in future albums to come, I’d like to see if Alissa can add something new to the band in terms of style and sound. Alissa has shown in The Agonist that she is really good at switching to clean vocals after delivering some guttural carnage. I hope in future songs she throws in some clean vocals even though this is not exactly Arch Enemy’s style, it would be a huge waste of her vocal talent if she didn’t.

Cheers to you Alissa! I take my metaphorical hat off to you!