So, what are you listening to these days?

[Mendalla]

New music from Dutch symphonic metal act Delain. Their lead singer Diana Leah left them so they are trying a new format, having multiple guest singers rather than a fixed lead singer. We'll see how this goes. Band founder Martin Westerholt is pretty creative guy and the band has a history of working with guests singers so I'm not surprised to see him trying something like this. Vocalists are Swiss singer Fabienne "Fabi" Erni (Eluveite and Illumishade), Italian Paolo Ribaldini (who has worked with Martin before), and Israeli Noa Gruman (Scardust). I am guessing this is a "gap filler" and there will be a successor to Diana at some point.

As for Diana, no word yet. Maybe a solo career? She's a good singer so I am sure she won't just disappear. Born in Romania and a resident of Italy since she was 10, Diana actually lived in Ottawa for 5 years in her twenties.

One of Diana's last releases with Delain, also featuring Paolo.

 

[Mendalla]

So after I posted that, I discovered that I actually had a video in my recommendations from "DYYA". And realized from the cover image that it was Diana. DYYA is Diana Leah's solo act and dates back several months. So either this split happened a while ago but has only just been announced or she's been quietly preparing for going solo.

 

[Jaebius]

Have started listening to more 70's tunes

 

[JayneWonders]

Concert tonight.

Opening act was Tennyson King

Primary was The Pairs
Great harmonies. They grew up singing in London, @Mendalla

Interesting, the band is comprised of twins, and another woman who is a twin, and has been friends since basically birth (the mother's were friends).
been singing together for many years.

 

[Mendalla]

Primary was The Pairs
Great harmonies. They grew up singing in London, @Mendalla

It's kind of scary how many artists I am finding who came out of the London scene. The Lander sisters of recently reunited nu metal band Kittie are from here, too.

And twin bands are an interesting thing. Harp Twins and Vulfgang Twins are both pairs of twins. Just to confuse things, each Harp Twin is married to a Vulfgang (yes, they do somehow manage to keep track of who is married to whom), so the two pairs of twins often perform together nowadays.

 

[Mendalla]

And the song of the day, at least for me. I don't know if it was planned this way, but the new single from Floor Jansen's upcoming second solo album is "Everything is Moving On" and comes a week after Floor left Finnish metal act Nightwish to pursue her solo career full time (it's not clear which side pulled the trigger, but the band has a bad history with vocalists so there's a lot of suspicion around what actually happened).

The new song is a real banger, melding a melodic anthem that wouldn't sound out of place on her debut solo album Paragon with some of the heaviest metal riffs yet from the new album. She's really pushing all the right buttons. January 15 is the release date and also marks the start of her most ambitious solo tour yet, covering much of Northern and Western Europe as well as Latin America, where the popularity of metal should pack them in even without Nightwish behind her. No North American dates yet and I am afraid the big orange Cheeto gets some of the blame for that. I'm crossing my fingers that she can see her way to jumping over the beast to the South of us and visit us here in Canada after her Latin America tour ends.

 

[Luce NDs]

How far do you think we could move on in the abstract ... eternally imagined as that spirit out there?

Some authorities declare that nothing goes on but story, legend, myth and song if harmonized ... then a mass don't understand any of it because they didn't wish to know ... it is ongoing ...

 

[Mendalla]

New Nome Naku today as well, a collaboration with someone called Yara Liz who I need to learn about. As usual, Nome was quite hands-on for the song and video, with Yara co-writing and co-producing.

 

[Mendalla]

And the song of the day, at least for me. I don't know if it was planned this way, but the new single from Floor Jansen's upcoming second solo album is "Everything is Moving On" and comes a week after Floor left Finnish metal act Nightwish to pursue her solo career full time (it's not clear which side pulled the trigger, but the band has a bad history with vocalists so there's a lot of suspicion around what actually happened).

The new song is a real banger, melding a melodic anthem that wouldn't sound out of place on her debut solo album Paragon with some of the heaviest metal riffs yet from the new album. She's really pushing all the right buttons. January 15 is the release date and also marks the start of her most ambitious solo tour yet, covering much of Northern and Western Europe as well as Latin America, where the popularity of metal should pack them in even without Nightwish behind her. No North American dates yet and I am afraid the big orange Cheeto gets some of the blame for that. I'm crossing my fingers that she can see her way to jumping over the beast to the South of us and visit us here in Canada after her Latin America tour ends.

Holy sheep. I had only listened to the song. Just saw the video. What a powerful song it becomes in context. The video has, besides her performing the song, images from throughout her career and life, including some Nightwish footage. There's also some nice "backstage" footage of Floor and album producer/backing musician Gordon Groothedde working on the song. It really is a proclamation of Floor launching the next phase in her life and career. She's really good at these type of song. "My Paragon" from the last album was one, too (and I caught at least one still from that video in the background). Some very recent stuff in there, too, so this must have been put together quite recently (e.g. her recent performance at the final Dutch Grand Prix).