The Agonist vocalist Alissa White-Gluz interviewed by the Metalluminati
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Alissa White-Gluz of the Agonist talks about the pros and cons of downloading, the importance of self-management, and why record labels need to be done away with entirely.
she's awesome no matter what anyone says, also love her anti fur button :3
I think everybody should buy phisycal albums of their favourite bands. Everytime I get a chance, I buy it. But, the bands only became my favourites because one day I downloaded their stuff and gave them a chance. Therefore, I believe downloaded should never become ilegal. Sorry for the bad english... had to learn it all alone.
Tiago Leal We do it to or at leest I buy it on iTunes.
Be glad there's still some people buying the cds, thats the best way to have the best music quality 100% sure + supporting you guys, I never heard of this band before i bought 2 of your albums at once. I really liked the music and I know now that Alissa was a co-signer in Sacrimony with Elize Ryd by Kamelot, i really liked that song with 2 girls signing a different style but all combined together was awesome...
Watched the video, loved the music, downloaded on Amazon, so paid for it. Thank you for the Rock and keep it up!
I prefer CD's. That way I have it all. :)
this goes directly to alyssa white gluz in regards to your comment about not receiving any royalties from century media look at their track record like iced earth for that matter they never received any royalties from century media for like three albums their royalties went to keep century media from going out of business so yeah we hear you gorgeous and yes i will directly support you guys by purchasing merch i.e. t-shirts and such one your gorgeous and two you guys are extremely talented \m/
I absolutely adore this girl
Cool interview! I love this band!!! This interview just proves how hard they and all struggling bands work these days! Can't wait to BUY their new album!
I bought the album. From a store.
Well, I've been in concerts,festivals, and so on...
Travel a lot to see metal bands all over the world....with ONE income.
Most people do great sacrifices to go to concerts and support the bands!
I know most people will keep doing it that way but artists and labels alike have to come an agreement of how survive in a monetary system within a FREE spirit culture.
In order metal bands financially prosperous is changing the traditions of every country. That's not gonna happen overnight.
I have never down loaded a cd in my life and never will, u guys and girl keep rocking it, i love u guys.\M/
I still buy music, i still go to shows, that's dedication the artists deserve.
This girl knows what is the REAL MUSIC :)
i buy the digital CD's because i believe the music the agonist produces is worth the money and their hard work deserves it.
Well,I would definitely buy their new record, but for me, there's just the option of illegaly downloading it, for free. I live in Argentina so I really can't get it, but I will definitely go to their show here and buy stuff at the merch table. I think it's really important supporting them but free download it's also a way of spreading the music worldwide, like, if I couldn't do so I wouldn't have heard not a single Agonist song and wouldn't love them like I do now.. It hs pros and cons, you know
More innovation into merchandising is the future. Sad but there will still be room for profit with merchandising, shows..etc. This is a great band, i hope they do well.
See the interview we did with Brian Fair on his thoughts on labels as well. And of course check out our website for resourses and information. Our FB site has tidbits everyday as well.
Glad to hear her normal voice, haha.
SHINING!
Thank You Pain
The Agonist should drop the label, another canadian band called "Protest the Hero" used a crowdfunding website called Indiegogo to fund their album. Fans buy the album and other really cool merch/perks from the website to fund their next album. Protest the Hero has doubled their fundraising goal and there is still time to raise more. The Agonist could get just as much money raised for their next album. :)
Im in love with by CDs. I used itunes like once and it felt like sooo wrong. So I'm back CDs and cds only. Never again. Plus I'm a graphic designer must support my cover artist world.
I only buy cds online when I get both the physical copy and the mp3, otherwise I listen to music on youtube or online radios, cds are useless nowadays, I only collect vinyl sometimes and digipack cds rarely because I like the digipack art
Great interview, it's good to hear some honesty.
Alissa rules. The Arch Enemy thing was what got me into The Agonist and now I can't see them with her and hear those beautiful cleans! Life just gave me a huge middle finger.
i would like to see Amaranthe in cooperation with The Agonist to be creative and get an album together or to have a concert together in North America for sure!!! But hey i really like to see girls in metal bands it's making new various kinds of metal which is really awesome!!! =) keep up the great work !!!!!
0:41 "it sucks" i hate it when bands bitch about touring. It's my literal dream to do that stuff and there's many other people willing to take your place if you hate it
She didn't "bitch" about touring, but about touring with people who don't respect her.
***** okey dokes
It also brings people back into reality. Yes if it is your dream, you can do it. However it isn't all sunshine and rainbows.
jaketno True but don't bitch about it try to find the positive. Oh i don't have to live a life as a limp dick or dry jane 9-5 for the rest of my life or whatever.
Every metal fan should be like you.
The point of doing music (or any artform for that matter) is to make it available for people to listen, like or hate. Keep it up.
I still buy albums. Iv got most of there albums and the albums of my other favorite bands.
Pressing the replay button 3rd time, still don't know what are they talking about.. Just looking at Alissa..God ;3
I've grown a bit out of downloading music, I still do it but if its a album i really enjoy i will go out of my way to buy it, like Cattle Decapitation's "Monolith Of Inhumanity" was released back in May and I bought it at their show a good week or so later because i loved that CD. I prefer physical over digital any time. unless I can't afford it then I will download it but I make the effort into buying the package because its art afteral
I love CD's I'm a collector of all my bands CD's
Very very bright comment... Bravo !
the agonist's album was hard to get for me, but after 3 month of searching i found theier albums on a smal private record store that loo like a storeage room
I definately support anything Alissa does and won't download for free. Fan of metal and I'm vegan like she is so she's pretty much a perfect woman imo :D
2:25 she nails it.
Very Well Done.
love you so much alissa :*
She really knows the music scene. She is smart. But I feel people are downloading songs online cause they aren't able to get the physical album in regular stores. Only the more "famous" bands get their albums sold there; you know, Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park, Evanescence etc. Its hard to find albums from lesser known bands. If these more independent bands can find a way to sell their albums internationally, I think that might lessen this problem.
I think the whole music industry is broken, tbh, i don't think people aren't buying CDs because they can download it for free, i think it's primarily because CDs have become obsolete, people use digital music now, whether it is from digital downloads, piracy, or streaming services like Google Play and apple music. I have been downloading music for a long time, but if i really like an album or an artist i will go out and buy the vinyl to support the artist. vinyl is much more expensive than CDs, but i don't mind if i appreciate the artist, and i like vinyl because i like the big artwork and they look really good on display. I will also go to the concert if i want to support them. I would gladly pay twice as much for concerts if it meant listening to the music online or downloading it was free.
they should come to rock in rio 2013... it would be so fucking great ! i wait that now, that rock in rio had came back to my country ( Brazil, the original country of rock in rio, and the best is that i live in rio ) we will have some good music here...
Money needs to dissolve and not exist anymore. Everything else has gone free, now it’s our turn! 🦋
love the sign off!!
yep, Ive only started listening to this band a few weeks ago but I'll buy their new album coming in a few weeks. Very impressed by them, and yes Alissa is fucking hot :D
Damn I knew I loved this woman..
thank you, pain - the agonist
She's so smart and pretty :D
you`re not alone :)
I pirated their album "Lullabies for the Dormant Mind". After listening to it a couple times and deciding that I liked it, I bought a physical copy.
Firstly I am madly in love with Alissa White-Gluz!! XD so please Alissa Marry Mee!!! lol secondly I still actually buy CD's I rather go out and buy the CD/Album than download it of the internet. I mean you're computer can only hold so much and the more space you use the slower it will run and if you don't back it up and it breaks you have lost everything at least with a CD's you don't loose them and if you're pc fucks up you still have you music. so yeah CD's RULE!! =D
Well said on that.
I guess when labels are organizing tours, they should look at the number of downloads?
maybe they should.
maybe if you came to california or the US at that. i would come see you. and i would love to buy merch from you. your band is amazing. just saying
Her voice (talking voice) is just amazing and shes pretty smart though.
If you look carefully you can see a paper in between/behind them. Alisaaaa! *-*
thank you pain by the agonist
I am a HUGE metal fan, and I have to say I agree. I am the most "normal"-looking person around, just a plain shirt, jeans, no tatoo, "normal" haircut no nothing. I swear just being "normal" and not accessorizing yourself like a fucking car is becoming more of a statement than ever.
shes 28? Well was 26/27 then but damn she looks young as fuck.
I listen the albums first and then buy the ones I like, sometimes digital, most times "carnal" version!
Only adivce I give Alissa White-Gluz for Arch Enemy is to not do any singing and stick to screaming! Not that she's a bad singer, I would just hate to see Arch enemy go in that direction and I feel the listeners would agree, otherwise good luck! See you at the shows.
LA AMOOOO !!
Agreed.
i love the agonist more than myself, i just dont find the where to buy the agonist's things, id love to have a tshirt of them, cd of them, everythin that i can, i love u, i want to help, but i dont no where. ( MY ENGLISH SUCKS BECAUSE IM FROM BRAZIL, SO, I DONT SPEAK ENGLISH, SORRY )
If it's a band I really like I will buy the album ,if not I'll just watch music videos.I bought all three of The Agonists CDs and a few T-shirts. I care.
All I do is buy CD's! :D
She is very beautiful!
in my opinion sites like i tunes should get shut down, if you want the bands music go do the right thing and go buy the album in the store
She is super pretty damn
Being a "member of the Metal scene", I think that a metalhead is someone who doesn't give a crap about what other people think of them because they feel good about who they are. Music included. So why would you bother about other metalheads being accessorized with "fishing lures"? It's not like you'll have to talk to them or even look at them. And I'm sorry if the metal scene isn't the same as back in the 80's. Scenes and trends that comes with them tempt to change like fashion does.
I thought so too. Promotions, i guess that's what is called. If bands get paid directly from getting their videos viewed, I guess they will be money makers in instant
I LOVE your brooch against fur!
no way to say this without sounding creepy but that would be the best threeway ever
Best Death metal vocalist in metal!
Most of the money generally goes to the label not to the artist themselves
who is the band she mentioned at the start? I couldn't find a band called "black gardens" with someone in the band named justina
Blackguard. Justine Ethier.
Same here, these bands bust their asses to put out an album for us fans to listen to, its only fair we support them by giving them 12 bucks or whatever for an album that we will most likely listen to for years.
Amanda is on the MONEY!
Metal was born with the purpose to be non-commercial music=Music X Music not Music X MONEY.
Metal people TRADE their tapes in order to keep the music alive.=SHARING NOT SELLING.
Metal ALWAYS has been ignored by the governments,schools, cultural institutions, and media because doesn't give'em money.
Money is always gonna be a problem in the metal world because Metal >Money
Artists should sell their music online instead of signing with a record label. Record labels aren't working out. Take donations for your music and you will make 100% of the profits!
it's the labels that give artist money to tour,food,produce their album i agree record labels can be corrupt in their business dealings but alot of the artist we know and love today couldnt have made it with out a label backing them even if they had a huge fanbase before a contract.how ever artist who have already been successful can start their own labels and have there own creative freedom and a better business model
i buy physical copy as much as i can.
and books also got more attention when people use to burn em.
when ya walk into a library/book store, almost feels as if you're walking into a funeral.
yep, high five on that one
my band is thinking of doing the DIY thing instead of finding a lable
Fuck, here in Colombia is almost impossible to get a metal-band CD different of Iron Maiden or Metallica D: And the shipping is just too expensive, I can't afford it.
i feel so bad :S #can't #stop #downloading
How do bands and other artists get paid if their "official" videos are uploaded on UA-cam?
Alissa should take a look at my cd-board....
Ii buy CDs to help artists. Yay
she says that labels should just dissolve and go away i disagree its the label that gives bands start up money...for promotion and tours a lot of the artist we know and love wouldnt have gotten far with out a label backing them sure they had a buzz here and there but producing your own album,touring,food,etc all that costs money and your average joe musician cant do all that on there own but yes record labels need to change their model and how they do business,that's like saying the health care industry should die off yes they have there flaw which could use work but saying they need to dissolve would do more harm then good because alot of people depend on it.
Shit, what label were you on that gave you money? I was more broke being signed to a label than I was before I was signed. She's right, unless you're on a major label which isn't going to happen if you're playing Metal, you are committing to a life of zero money and tons of headaches. Been there, done that!
It's really very simple, if one is on a small label then that means there will be no money and any money one might receive from a label is "recoupable" which means you have to pay it back. In most cases, any money received by a band by their label needs to be paid back before the band ever sees any profit. Most bands never make enough money to pay back that initial advance so they must tour and tour and tour to make little to no money (which is the most common thing) to try and pay back the money that was loaned for recording, merch etc. There were a few times where I was on tour with local bands that were actually making money not being on a label. Nowadays, you can do pretty much anything you want without the need for a label. Now if you're a Rapper or and Pop musician, then a label will help but for anyone else playing Metal, you're better off on your own most of the time. A band like Arch Enemy might do well on their own label and take care of themselves because they already have an established fan base but the rest of us are fucked LOL
Hate to be the one to piss on your parade but the days of Rock Stars are long over. There will NEVER be a Metal band as big as Metallica or someone like that.
I pretty much covered that in my last message. Money often comes from the band's pocket. Labels HATE giving out money and often won't give any out if the band still owes on the original loan for recording or whatever. It sucks dude, if you're looking to be a musician, be prepared to live a life of poverty and obscurity if you plan on playing Metal music. If you become a session player or play in a cover band, you actually have a WAY better chance of making some money.
+Moshe Alvarez Yeah but to be a really good session player, like Guthrie Govan for instance, you basically have to play guitar 10+ hours a day for several years just to that point, and that is if only you have the musical
talent and drive to do so. I'm 50, and back in the late 80's early 90's I was good enough to keep busy playing around the Austin TX music scene.I'm not that serious anymore, have to hold a day job. So I just keep it as
a hobby
KITTIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fuck yeah!!, I will buy the new cd tomorrow I don´t care!
no stores near me sell good heavy metal :(
Pirating is like a double-edged sword, to be honest.
Sure, it hurts the band at first, but it's also putting their name out there. Case in point, the first time I stumbled across The Agonist it was illegally. If I recall correctly, it took me under a week to physically buy the two albums they'd released by then.
TL;DR: The Agonist owes the three albums I bought so far to some guy pirating Lullabies for the Dormant Mind and uploading it to the internet.
I thought I had already seen the hottest girl in the world until I saw Alissa White-Gluz.
well does anyone know where to buy the CD's in Green Bay WI.?
for The Agonist
o ok thank you ill go check em out (:
this girl is smart too, I hate labels becouse they just watch for money makers they dont care if song suck or is rip off some older better song.
Many bands that I listen to tour very rarely outside thier home country so when I catch them when they come to my place I buy something from them not FUCKING recored labels.
I understand the point you are trying to make, however I don't completely agree.
Whether you are anti-establishment or want to be part of the establishment or of some kind of trend. If you are into metal, then you are into it. It doesn't matter what kind of person you are, you can still listen to whatever you want and do whatever you want. At least that is how I see it.
But you are right that for some it is 'cool' to be part of the metal 'trend' just to be 'cool'. But they'll never last =P
I buy CD and I go to showes all that good stuff
what was that band she was talking about in the first question?
I agree with her. Screw record labels. All they do is tell musicians what they have to do and what they cannot do, then get their mostly undeserved money, and if these musicians refuse, their career is over or will never be existent in the first place. That's how you get people like One Direction and Justin Bieber who (despite the fact that I don't exactly classify them as musicians) are slaves to the record companies that make this fabricated image that they have to portray. Granted, these two examples were sellouts from day 1, but still.