Alissa White-Gluz

Canadian singer

Alissa White-Gluz (born July 31, 1985) is a Canadian singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of Swedish death metal band Arch Enemy and the former singer of Canadian metal band The Agonist.

Alissa White-Gluz
White-Gluz at Wacken Open Air in 2018
White-Gluz at Wacken Open Air in 2018
Background information
Born (1985-07-31) 31 July 1985 (age 38)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
GenresMelodic death metal, metalcore, power metal, symphonic metal, deathcore
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter[1]
Years active2004–present
LabelsNapalm, Century Media, Act, Spiritual Beast

Career

The Agonist

In 2004, she formed The Agonist with guitar player Danny Marino and bass player Chris Kells.

Arch Enemy

In 2014, she left The Agonist and joined Arch Enemy after the last singer, Angela Gossow, left.

Discography

The Agonist

  • 2007 – Once Only Imagined
  • 2009 – Lullabies for the Dormant Mind
  • 2011 – The Escape (EP)
  • 2012 – Prisoners

Arch Enemy

  • 2014 – War Eternal
  • 2017 – As the Stages Burn!
  • 2017 – Will to Power
  • 2019 – Covered in Blood

Guest appearances

  • Never More Than Less – on track "So Beautiful" – Album Relentless (2008, Le Collectif Artcore)
  • (the) Plasmarifle – on track "From The Trail of Ashes ..." – Album While You Were Sleeping The World Changed in an Instant (October 2008 Siege of Amida Records)
  • Blackguard – on track "The Sword" – Album Profugus Mortis (April 2009 Sumerian Records)
  • Kamelot – on track "Sacrimony (Angel of Afterlife)" – Album Silverthorn (October 2012 SPV/Steamhammer, King)
  • Delain – on track "The Tragedy Of The Commons" – Album The Human Contradiction (April 2014 Napalm Records)
  • Kamelot – on tracks "Liar Liar (Wasteland Monarchy)" and "Revolution" – Album Haven (February 2015 Napalm Records)
  • Metal Allegiance – guest vocals on "We Rock" – Album Metal Allegiance (2015, Nuclear Blast)
  • Karmaflow – as the Muse in "The Muse and the Conductor" (2015)
  • Caliban – on track "The Ocean's Heart" – Album Gravity (March 2016, Century Media)
  • And Then She Came – on track "Five Billion Lies" – Album And Then She Came (June 2016 DME Music Napalm Records)
  • Tarja Turunen – on track "Demons in You" – Album The Shadow Self (August 2016, earMUSIC)
  • Delain – guest vocals on "Hands of Gold" – Album Moonbathers (August 2016 Napalm Records)
  • Metal Allegiance – guest vocals on "Life in the Fast Lane" – Album Fallen Heroes (2016, Nuclear Blast)
  • Evesdroppers – guest vocals on "God's Ocean" – Album Empty Vessel, (2016, Casual Madness)
  • American Murder Song – as Pretty Lavinia (2016)
  • Aurelio Voltaire – on track "Leaves In The Stream" – Album Heart-Shaped Wound, (2017)
  • Angra – on track "Black Widow's Web" – Album ØMNI (2018)
  • Dee Snider – on track "Dead Hearts (Love Thy Enemy)" – Album For the Love of Metal (2018, Napalm Records)
  • Soilwork – on track "Stålfågel" – Album Verkligheten (2019, Nuclear Blast)
  • Mark Morton – on track "The Truth Is Dead" (w/ Randy Blythe of Lamb of God) – Album Anesthetic (2019, Spinefarm)[2]
  • Carnifex – on track "No Light Shall Save Us" – Album World War X (2019, Nuclear Blast)
  • Kane Roberts – on track "Beginning of the End" – Album The New Normal, (2019, Frontiers Records)
  • Babymetal – on track "Distortion" – Album Metal Galaxy (2019)
  • Kamelot – on live album "I Am the Empire – Live from the 013" (2020, Napalm Records)
  • Charlotte Wessels – on single "Lizzie" (2020, collaboration)[3]

Personal life

She is an atheist and straight edge.[4][5] She is also an animal rights activist and a civil rights activist. She wrote a song about human rights/civil rights called "The Race".[6]

References