Great art often comes from the most trying of times, and Delain are one of the best examples of this. In 2001, Martjin Westerholt was forced to leave his band Within Temptation as he was suffering from Pfeiffer’s disease, and although he was soon cleared of the disease, he still needed to take the rest of the following year off to recuperate. Of course, for Westerholt, recuperation meant putting together a band with several local musicians to him and recording a demo tape under the name Delain. The band were never intended to be a genuine project however, and once the demo was recorded Westerholt left the band behind to focus on other projects. However, in 2005 he teamed up with vocalist Charlotte Wessels to restart Delain as an entirely new project, signed to Roadrunner records and began work on their debut album “Lucidity”.
The album was written and recorded without intending to ever perform the songs live, with Westerholt and Wessels tapping members of other Dutch metal bands to record the record with. However, the critical and commercial response to the album was so positive that Wessels and Westerholt formed a live band to tour the project shortly after the records release in Septmber 2006. Ever since then the band have remained one of the must see symphonic metal acts of today, with three further hit albums in their native Netherlands released since their debut and hugely acclaimed live shows performed all over the world. For coming back from fire circumstances and becoming one of the most acclaimed metal bands of modern times, Delain come highly recommended.
This is a metal band that has a female lead vocalist. The vocalist has a sweet yet strong sounding voice and the band accompanying plays really deep bass and nice sounding keyboard in the back. The band sounds like a metal band but is more like an Evanescence kind of band, female vocals with strong band sound.
The Dutch metal sound is apparent but I could easily hear this on the radio as number 1 hit. The clothes are metal/rock, they differently fit the the whole rock look, the lead singer is usually in some sort of dress and the rest of the members are in shredded shirts and jeans and/or leather.
The band's audience can be energetic in the live performances but as I watch and listen to Delain, it's not really the metal that you thrash your head kind of metal but really pleasant melodic metal. The concerts are performed at music halls. The songs that are played are from the albums that were made in the previous and most recently. I'm interested in seeing this guys live I've always been a huge sucker for the rock/metal bands with pretty lead vocalist and soft voice, they remind me of Flyleaf and a little bit of Paramore, so I would enjoy seeing them live.
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