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ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ

AHEAD OF THEIR run of UK dates with Amon Amarth, we thought we’d catch up with Arch Enemy’s vocal cord-shredding frontwoman. Turns out Alissa has a few things to say about the lessons she’s learned in her career so far, and the score on her impending (and long-long-awaited) solo album, Alissa.

FAME COMES AT A PRICE

“I feel like I never complete life lessons – I’m just learning them, getting my degree in them, then getting my doctorate in them, so I learn more as I go. The most difficult thing to learn is how to deal with having people know my name and my face when I don’t know them. I obviously keep a lot of stuff private, so people really only know 1% of what there is to know about me, but because of the day and age we live in, people think they know a lot more about musicians they follow. It’s a strange

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