The Agonist - When The Bough Breaks

Band: The Agonist
Song: When The Bough Breaks
Album: Lullabies Of The Dormant Mind (2009)
Genre: Metalcore

I may as well take this moment to shout out one of my favorite female vocalist, Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy and The Agonist.

The thing I love most about Alissa is that she can scream amazingly.  Like, she's so freaking good at it, especially for a girl.  Then she goes and switches it up and sings beautifully as well.  Panophobia is the best example of that, but as I already posted that song in the past here's a different one that she does it in as well.

Honestly it's a crying shame that I know as little of her material as I do, I just ever took the time to get super into their music.  Maybe someday, haha

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The Agonist - Thank You, Pain

Band:  The Agonist
Song:  Thank You, Pain
Album:  Lullabies Of The Dormant Mind
Genre:  Melodic Death Metal

Alissa White-Gluz is probably my favorite female Metal vocalist.  She's able to scream with the best of them while also singing as well as anybody.  Seriously, it's highlighted heavily in the first 30 seconds of the song, it's freaking dope.

I blame growing up with around a lot of female vocalists as the reason that I don't generally care for them as a general rule.  There's a lot of good ones out there, but I'm always going to pick the dude over them because I'm just kinda tired of the sound as a general rule.

The Agonist manages to swing having pretty vocals in with the hard edge of their sound though, which I think benefits them greatly.  They have a new singer now as Alissa has moved to Arch Enemy, and while I'm not as big a fan of her I can't deny that she's at least doing well with the material.

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The Agonist - Panophobia

My brother showed this band to me a very long time ago, but I never remembered to actually check them out.  Well he showed them to me again yesterday, so I figure this is the best way for me to remember to actually look up their stuff again.

Firstly, this is an example of Metalcore done right.  Secondly, just in case you haven't started watching the video yet, the singer is a chick.

I don't care who you are, this girls screaming is absolutely amazing.  She's got some killer lows too, and she does clean singing.  There is only one piece of bad news here, and that's that she is in the band Arch Enemy now and they vastly underutilize her talent.

The new singer they have is really generic sounding and I kinda hate her, but I'll let you pick for yourself whether you like her or not.  Honestly, you probably don't like this song at all and you'll be moving on with your life as soon as you finish this post.  That's ok, I don't mind.