Spanningen tussen Arch Enemy en Machine Head

Muzieknieuws 03-05-2004 14:33

Nadat de Zweedse metalband Arch Enemy onverwachts halverwege de "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" US tour met Machine Head, God Forbid en 36 Crazyfists is gestapt en terug naar huis is gevlogen, zijn de verhoudingen gespannen.

Eerder verklaarde Arch Enemy dat ""problems in obtaining a replacement U.S. visa" voor zangeres Angela Gossow een probleem vormden. De band verscheen dan ook niet op de kick-off van de "Weapons Of Mass Destruction" tour in Philadelphia op 28 april jl.

Hoewel drummer Daniel Erlandsson en de rest van Arch Enemy op tijd waren voor de gig op het New England Metal And Hardcore Festival afgelopen vrijdag, heeft de groep besloten de rest van de optredens te cancelen. De opgegeven reden is een keelontsteking van Gossow.

Leugens volgens Machine Head: de band is "royally pissed off". In een uitermate sarcastische persbericht schrijven de Machine Heads:

"In what came as a complete shock to the Machine Head camp, perennial support act Arch Enemy have informed headliners Machine Head that they must pull out of the entire Weapons Of Mass Destruction tour because singer Angela Gossard [sic] broke a fingernail which had recently been through a vigorous French manicure. (...) Citing work visa problems and strained vocals to the media, the troubles began for the German vixen when, upon raising her devil horns for the 349th time during Arch Enemy's bizarre performance at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, her fingernail got caught in what could only be described as a metal-horned catastrophe. The members of Machine Head instinctively rushed to her aid, offering her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, after which the ever-benevolent MH boys granted the openers permission to miss a handful of shows while she recovered from what the metal diva claimed was 'an extremely painful broken nail'. Unfortunately, word came from their management and booking agent today that the nail would need emergency manicuring and that only the best French manicurist in all of Sweden could perform the repair, thus resulting in the bands' inability to complete the entire remainder of the tour."

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