Well, folks – Metal Injection noted later last week that it appeared that previous frontwoman of Arch Enemy, Angela Gossow, had ignited rumours that she had rejoined the Swedish melodic death metal band, and Gossow has just come out and poured water over the flame, commenting on the original post that started it all, “It’s not ME! But thank you for all the love! I am really excited to be involved in this new chapter as the manager. This is gonna crush!”
The rumours started when Gossow both Arch Enemy and Gossow posted the same cryptic teaser to their respective Instagram accounts. After posting the teaser, both accounts blacked out their profile pictures and wiped their social media feeds. Fans started connecting the dots between the posts and a comment that Gossow had made back in 2018, saying “I want to make a new extreme metal project, but this will happen after Arch Enemy and work with Alissa [White-Gluz] will be concluded and the whole world will sail in calmer waters. I suppose this will be in 2018, when we concluded the first series of tours and all the rest. I will do so when the time comes” – and that’s really all it took before fans started wondering about Gossow‘s involvement with Arch Enemy now, considering she has been involved as the band’s business manager.
“I took over management in 2008 already, after I noticed our previous manager was making a nice chunk of money, but we — the artist — did not at all,” she said back in 2016 to Roppongi Rocks back, “We hardly managed to get by. That couldn’t be right. A lot of things changed for us since then. I think most managers take way too much out of the artist’s pocket. Like 20% of the gross income, then they waste away what’s left, no regards for the budget and the fact the artist should really make the most out of it. I’ve changed that. I take a lot less commission and I always make sure the artist makes more money than me at the end of the day!”
So, it looks like Angela Gossow is still the band’s manager. Time will tell who is the new vocalist.
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