(LOL) Arch Enemy and Alissa White Gluz Part Ways

So White Gluz left Arch Enemy, complaining about the "bull****" that Women in metal have to put up with on a daily basis. She mentions constantly having to justify her presence in the scene, and the behaviour of metal fans.

Source: Alissa White Gluz is DONE with Arch Enemy and Metalcore! (Voice Metal)

Routinely called "MTV metalcore with harsh vocals", the Swedish metal scene really can't catch a break between Dissection's nu "black" metal and Arch Enemy's modern metal production poserdom. The problem isn't so much the presence of a female metal vocalist but in the total absence of said vocalist's ability to perform convincing death metal vocals. And the lack of talent in Arch Enemy isn't restricted to the vocalist, either. Michael Amott and Daniel Erlandsson are known failed rockstars, who routinely attempt to camouflage their mediocre arena rock under layers of distortion, dual guitar harmonies, and growling vocals, in an attempt to pass this off as extreme metal. It's not. It can never be.

That's all I have to say on the subject matter.

author is kind of correct when he points out that bands like Arch Enema were complete garbage well before it was a female fronted band

the women in metal thing is less of a gimmick and more of a scapegoat for how dull and insipid this type of muzak is

As I previously pointed out in the so-called 'melodeath' thread, it's all metalcore. 100%, take it to the bank. Every that appends the 'melodic' suffix to this type of post-rock sonic diarrhea is automatically metalcore. No ifs, buts, or maybes.

@Taake: No one is denying that modern metal is a nonsense moniker. But (!) there is such a thing as real melodic black/death metal. The fact that the name was parasited by mallcore peddlers doesn't detract from the reality that it was once a real, serious genre. Just listen to Demonecromancy (Fallen From the Brightest Throne), Goatmoon, Sissourlet, Sentenced (North From Here), Frost Like Ashes, Neraines (Lords of the Everlasting Skies), early Horde, etc.

^ you forgot Vermin "Memories of Blood and Darkness"

the only true melodic blackened death metal worth listening to