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Delain is a symphonic metal band, formed in Zwolle, Netherlands in 2002. The band consists of Charlotte Wessels (vocals), Ewout Pieters (guitars), Rob van der Loo (bass), Martijn Westerholt (keyboards), and Sander Zoer (drums).
Delain was founded by Martijn Westerholt who was previously the pianist of Within Temptation as well as being the brother of Robert Westerholt, one the band’s founders. He left Within Temptation in 2001 after contracting Pfeiffer’s disease. He started Delain in 2002. The band released a demo entitled “Amenity” in 2002. The band started recording their debut album “Lucidity” in July 2005, after they had signed a contract with Roadrunner Records.
For their first album “Lucidity” they invited several guest musicians:
Jan Yrlund - guitars (Imperia)
Ariën van Weesenbeek - drums (ex-Pandaemonium, ex-Imperia,ex-God Dethroned, Epica)
Ad Sluijter - guitars (Epica)
George Oosthoek - grunts (ex-Orphanage, After Forever touring member)
Guus Eikens - keyboards (ex-Orphanage)
Sharon den Adel - vocals (Within Temptation)
Marco Hietala - bass, vocals (Tarot, Nightwish)
Liv Kristine - vocals (ex-Theatre of Tragedy, Leaves’ Eyes)
At the end of 2007 Delain stated that they intend to release a second album in 2008, so far, the band has begun playing two new songs live: “Stay Forever” & “Start Swimming”. In November 2008, it was announced that the new album “April Rain” would be released on February 9th, 2009. Also they played a new song on Dutch television called “I’ll Reach You”. In 2009, “April Rain” was delayed until March 2009, while the single is still to be released in February.
Delain was founded by Martijn Westerholt who was previously the pianist of Within Temptation as well as being the brother of Robert Westerholt, one the band’s founders. He left Within Temptation in 2001 after contracting Pfeiffer’s disease. He started Delain in 2002. The band released a demo entitled “Amenity” in 2002. The band started recording their debut album “Lucidity” in July 2005, after they had signed a contract with Roadrunner Records.
For their first album “Lucidity” they invited several guest musicians:
Jan Yrlund - guitars (Imperia)
Ariën van Weesenbeek - drums (ex-Pandaemonium, ex-Imperia,ex-God Dethroned, Epica)
Ad Sluijter - guitars (Epica)
George Oosthoek - grunts (ex-Orphanage, After Forever touring member)
Guus Eikens - keyboards (ex-Orphanage)
Sharon den Adel - vocals (Within Temptation)
Marco Hietala - bass, vocals (Tarot, Nightwish)
Liv Kristine - vocals (ex-Theatre of Tragedy, Leaves’ Eyes)
At the end of 2007 Delain stated that they intend to release a second album in 2008, so far, the band has begun playing two new songs live: “Stay Forever” & “Start Swimming”. In November 2008, it was announced that the new album “April Rain” would be released on February 9th, 2009. Also they played a new song on Dutch television called “I’ll Reach You”. In 2009, “April Rain” was delayed until March 2009, while the single is still to be released in February.
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See Me In Shadow
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Poika
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os_teriyaki wrote:
Delain were really great last night, supporting Sonata Arctica :DD Charlotte's voice is fantastic live, maybe the best female live singer I've seen! D: Ewout was really cool as well, he really brings so much atmosphere to the performance :D And just by chance I ended up meeting both of them after the show!! \:D/ They were both really cool people :3
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jcsotita wrote:
Hello I am portuguese go to see des music thsnks: (http://palcoprincipal.clix.pt/tita)(wwwyoutube titacaldas) (http://tita090.skyrock.com)
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nDroae wrote:
Haha, lucky you! :D
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DundalkChild wrote:
Ah, thank you! Ewout Pieters. Got his plek and let him sign it. First I was confused that I saw Delain already for the 5th time and I never noticed this awesome guy, but then he told me that it is his first tour with Delain.
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nDroae wrote:
Oh, yeah, Ewout, sorry I forgot to mention that XD MOTARD6669, it's out on the French Amazon site... I dunno where else. :)
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os_teriyaki wrote:
@DundalkChild: New guitarist is called Ewout (I think? correct me if I'm wrong guys) I'm glad to see he's back on the road, Henkka (from Sonata) said he had to go to hospital at some point ^__^;;
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MOTARD6669 wrote:
anyone has "Smalltown Boy" single yet?
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nDroae wrote:
New interview with The Charlotte: "I don’t sing so damn high!" XD And regarding the show that *I* will be going to: "I’m looking forward to the festival very much! We’ll definitely make sure our first US performance is going to be one to remember." ^____________^ I'm sure Marco will sing with them at ProgPower XI, question now is, might Liv sing See Me in Shadow with Charlotte...? :-P THAT would be something really special! Future goals: "To release a kick-ass third album as soon as possible." YEAH :D "I still really love the vibe of April Rain so the next one should just be bigger, louder and better (laughs). We’ll also look into adding some more real orchestration." UBERYEAH! ^_^
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DundalkChild wrote:
Just saw them supporting Sonata Arctica. Charlotte performed Last Drop Falls with Sonata. How is the new guitarist called? He so damn hot!
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os_teriyaki wrote:
Seeing them live tomorrow :DD *excited*
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nDroae wrote:
I'VE GOT A POTATO!!! Ah :)
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pep_i wrote:
potato.mi wonda wha dat mean?
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Moowny wrote:
POTATO POTATO POTATO etc. [3] :D
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os_teriyaki wrote:
"I'm surprised you reply here instead of the Nightwish shoutbox.... :D" <-- I just happened to visit this shoutbox before the Nightwish one, on this occasion :) POTATO POTATO POTATO etc. [2]
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nDroae wrote:
POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO POTATO *obligatory post because I just went three days seeing "charotee" as the most recent line every time I reloaded this shoutbox and I'd rather see POTATO POTATO POTATO etc than go another three days seeing "charoltte"*
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pep_i wrote:
charoltte ugli to rass iwdout makeup
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nDroae wrote:
Barely audible, but here's Floor performing Liv's part on A Day for Ghosts :-P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21P76ZisvOc (It's so weird April Rain is the same Delain as Lucidity, I think about them completely differently :-P)
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nDroae wrote:
Haha! :-P I'm surprised you reply here instead of the Nightwish shoutbox.... :D
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os_teriyaki wrote:
Sweet video :D Charlotte and Anneke are so cute, but you know for me Marco steals the show xDD I thought for a minute he was actually going to list all his projects... that would have taken a while ^__^;;
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nDroae wrote:
New good luck Floor video with Charlotte :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njNELwlgTIM
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Sonata Arctica
Hof Ter Lo, Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium
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| 30 attendees
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Dec
8
Sonata Arctica
Capitol, Hannover, Germany
15 shouts
| 51 attendees
News
Delain introducing Ewout
10 Nov 2009 | from site.delain.nl
We are proud and very happy to announce that we have found a new guitarist to replace Ronald as a fulltime member of Delain.
We would like to introduce Ewout Pieters as the newest Delain-member. He
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Thank you
3 Nov 2009 | from site.delain.nl
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