ARCH ENEMY Guitarist Says ANGELA GOSSOW's Vocals Are Still 'Developing'

Metal Temple magazine recently conducted an interview with ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Metal Temple: With the recording of Angela's [Gossow] vocals, I have kind of noticed a change in the way they sound from "Wages Of Sin" (2001) to the latest "Doomsday Machine" (2005). I don't know if you had any straight input to the way it sounded but what made you change the way it sounded on the record?

Mike Amott: "She is just developing. I think that her voice just changes, I mean she has been doing so much research on singing and working with vocal coaches. She has just discovered that she can do different things. Then that comes out in the music and on the albums."

Metal Temple: I totally understand the progression because you don't wanna do the same album more than once. I would think that it would just get boring.

Mike Amott: "I wish I could make the same album twice but I don't know how to do that. Some bands can do that really well. They make the same album every time, pretty much. The progression in the music, I guess just comes naturally."

Metal Temple: You recorded a video for the song "Nemesis". How was that and did you have any input for the concept of the video?

Mike Amott: "Videos are just a way to present the band in a cool way."

Metal Temple: Just a promotional type of thing...

Mike Amott: "Yeah, it is just a way to showcase the album with that song, it's really no deeper than that."

Metal Temple: I realize you guys just released the album over the summer but are you doing any songwriting while on the road?

Mike Amott: "Yeah, we got a ProTools rig on the bus here. We just record riffs, melodies and stuff like that and we work on them when we get back home. I don't really know when that is, but when we eventually do get home, we'll combine it all and try to make songs out of them for the next album."

Read the entire interview at this location.