THE AGONIST vocalist Alissa White-Gluz is featured in a new interview with UK-based Metal Discovery, conducted on October 21st in Liverpool. An excerpt is available below:

MD: There are so many labels bandied around when people try to describe your music which, in one sense, is testament to its diversity, but do you ever worry that any of those labels could potentially delimit your audience? I hear the metalcore one used so often and, for me, that’s nonsensical in the context of your music.

Alissa: "Yeah, I don’t get that one either. Definitely, labels in metal are a really stupid thing that a lot of people use to fit themselves into a category or fanbase. But there are so many. We’ve gotten the metalcore thing – I don’t think that really applies but I don’t really care, you know. It’s just metal, you know. Just call it metal, I guess. I don’t know what else to call it."

MD: There are only two genres of music – music you like and music you don’t. Simple as that.

Alissa: "Exactly."

MD: Interestingly, progressive is a term you don’t hear so much in relation to The Agonist although your music is, effectively, thoroughly progressive – in a genuine sense, rather than a generic sense. Do you regard yourselves as a progressive band in that sense?

Alissa: "Yeah. I mean, it’s funny, I think, for the most part, we agree with the label progressive but not so much with prog. Even though prog is just an abbreviated version of the word progressive, to me, prog sort of talks more about DREAM THEATER type bands that don’t sound like us at all but the music itself has a progressive nature to it in the sense that riffs don’t always repeat, there’s not a solid structure for every song that is the same on all the albums or all the songs. So I think that’s a label that does fit in the true sense of the word."

Go to this location for the complete interview.