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DELAIN - THE HUMAN CONTRADICTION !!!!
by Darkzen
Another important news is the new album by Charlotte Wessels which tell us more about the album and its history, let them down here what they tell us!
"Dutch symphonic metal band Delain have come a long way since their debuting record. Having toured the globe and carved their niche within the genre, the band is now preparing for the release of their upcoming fourth studio record. DELAIN have proudly revealed the front cover and track listing of their upcoming record “The Human Contradiction” that is scheduled for a release in April 2014 by Napalm Records. At this point, it is time to let you in on some of the juicy details!
"The Human Contradiction" is DELAIN’s fourth studio album, and the highly-anticipated follow-up to the 2012 release "We Are The Others", which saw the band touring the globe and entering charts across Europe. Against the backdrop of this massive touring and releasing their special record "Interlude" which was introduced to the masses less then a year ago, DELAIN find themselves at top productivity with their upcoming 2014 release of "The Human Contradiction", which is set to meet and exceed expectations set by its predecessors.
If anything, this productive flow of creative juices comes from DELAIN taking matters into their own hands for the creation of "The Human Contradiction". Besides relying more heavily then ever on the team effort of DELAIN’s writing team consisting of DELAIN founder and keyboardist Martijn Westerholt, singer Charlotte Wessels and their long time musical partner Guus Eikens, DELAIN takes matters in their own hands by having Westerholt back in his trusted producer chair. He states: "It was a very special and inspiring experience, to create this new album together with Guus, Charlotte, my other bandmates Timo, Sander, Otto. This was fantastic teamwork! I think this is the heaviest albums we made so far. Also thanks to the mixing team of Fredman, and our guest artists. And I’m so much looking forward to present it to our fans!"
The record was mixed by Fredrik Nordström and Henrik Udd at the legendary Fredman Studio’s (In Flames, Soilwork, Amon Amarth) and mastered by Grammy Award winning Ted Jensen of Sterling Sound, whose impressive credits include everything from Madonna and Billy Joel, to Muse, Marilyn Manson and Slipknot. The result is a massive sounding collection of songs in which you will be able to recognize DELAIN’s recent sound, but which forefronts the more dark symphonic approach of their earlier work. Elaborate orchestral sounds and the return of prominent grunts are prevalent on the album which features longer, elaborate tracks, with dark edges.
These dark edges run along both the instrumental and lyrical world, of which Wessels states: “The title "The Human Contradiction" is taken from one of my favorite books; Octavia E. Butlers trilogy Lilith’s Brood. A post-apocalypse story, in which the fact that humanity did not last is explained by our two most contradictory qualities; the fact that we are as a species both intelligent and hierarchic. This human contradiction causes an ‘us versus the others’ mentality, which in the book - as well as one could argue, in reality - proves to be a most self-destructive attitude. in a way, "The Human Contradiction" presents a broadening and deepening of the lyrical concept of We Are The Others: ‘otherness’ and how people relate to this, has had my interest for years. Whether it is otherness within our species, so towards people who are perceived as ‘different’ by other people (which was "We Are The Others" main focus) or in our attitudes towards non-human ‘others’, which is the lyrical addition made by our new record.”
One of the signature trades of DELAINs records has been the presence of guest musicians, and "The Human Contradiction" is no exception. Prominent is the much anticipated return of vocal force Marco Hietala on the powerful number "Your Body Is A Battleground" and the melancholic "Sing To Me". The band states “After our collaboration with Marco on our first two records we can’t help but hearing Marco’s voice in some of the songs we write. We love his contributions on The Human Contradiction”. States Marco: "I´ve done quite a few visitations on select albums during my career. Delain and their albums are among the most frequent. If you listen to their stuff, you´ll know why. Martijn and his group seem to have plenty to say both musically and lyrically. Keep it up mates!"
Another surprise is the appearance of iconic screamer Alissa White-Gluz on the epic album finale "The Tragedy Of The Commons", showcasing both her clean vocals and her impressive signature screams. About the collaboration, Alissa recalls: "After a couple days of touring with Delain, I HAD to go buy a cd or two. This band blew me away with their intelligent songs, energetic yet extremely precise live show and overall charisma. Sure enough, after buying an album at their merch table and listening to it on repeat while working out, my suspicions were confirmed: DELAIN IS AN AWESOME BAND! I'm very flattered and honored to participate in their upcoming album. I see Delain going very far, I wish them nothing but success and I'm glad to contribute my share!”
Returning to the roots of their debut record Lucidity, "The Human Contradiction" also features George Oosthoek laying down some brutal grunts on the heavy Tell Me, Mechanist.
More:
"The Human Contradiction" will be released on the following dates:
Germany/Austria/Switzerland, April 4, 2014
UK, Rest of Europe: April 7, 2014
USA and Canada: April 8, 2014
Japan, ANZ, South America, Russia: TBA
The Human Contradiction
1. Here Come The Vultures
2. Your Body Is A Battleground
3. Stardust
4. My Masquerade
5. Tell Me, Mechanist
6. Sing To Me
7. Army Of Dolls
8. Lullaby
9. The Tragedy Of The Commons"
ANETTE OLZON-DETAILS ABOUT "SHINE"
"In a biography for the first solo album of Swedish singerAnette Olzon you cannot get around one name. So let's get it over with: Yes, Anette Olzon had been the front woman of Finnish symphonic metal superstars Nightwish for five years before she had to leave the band in late 2012. And though all that belongs to the past and doesn't affect her solo career since the sound of her own songs deflects considerably from that of Nightwish's, those five years have after all established her on the musical map on a global scale. In other words, many music fans around the world will be interested in how it might sound, Anette Olzon solo and with her own songs.
The singer herself is equally eager to finally let the world know. “I had to be quiet about it, which was hard because you want to tell the world that you are happy about something,” says the 42-year-old power woman who wouldn't speak ill of her former band, not even upon request. Her classy motto: Look forward and don't dwell in the past! And, looking forward, there it comes into sight, her aptly titled first solo album “Shine”.
Contrary to what one might expect, Anette didn't write the ten songs of the album after her departure from Nightwish but back in 2009 when, agitated by a tiresome tour and private calamities, she sat down for the first time in her musical career to write songs of her own. “Back then it was more of a side project and when I got pregnant we had to put those songs in the desk again. But I have been patiently awaiting to have time again to work on them with Stefan Örn and Johan Glössner,” Anette remembers and doesn't shy away from admitting that her solo debut wasn't conceived without help. None other than Anders Bagge – known as jury member of Sweden's “Idols” offshoot as well as producer for international music luminaries like Madonna, Céline Dion or Jennifer Lopez – and his songwriter team consisting of Stefan Örn and Johan Glössner helped Anette shaping her ideas into the audio diamonds which can now be found on “Shine”.
“I don't think there's anything wrong with that”, she says. “If there's a good songwriter, why not use it? I have done like one third of the things on the album but still I have to have other people around me who can do the music and arrange it. The guys I work with, Stephan and Johan, they do song writing for a living and write for big artists. They know how to make the songs better. When I have an idea I can sing the melody to them and they transform it into this wonderful piece of music. You need to have people around who can help you if you are not really good at song writing yet and maybe also a bit afraid of it since it is your first time.”
Being able to process her own thoughts in song lyrics has been a completely new experience for the outwardly happy Swede. She may have been singing in bands since the age of 16, but only other people's lines. “I was always satisfied with that because I always enjoyed working in a team,” she says today. “But when we had a little break after that long tour with Nightwish in 2009 there were many bad things going on in my personal life, like my divorce or my mother having cancer. I wanted to get all those things out of my system.” Which resulted in those songs which can now be found on “Shine” and will surely be interpreted as Anette's reaction towards her separation from Nightwish: Song titles like 'Falling', 'Floating', 'Lies', 'Moving Away' or 'Invincible' may have been written in 2009 but are welcome for up-to-date interpretation as well. “'Lies' is actually a divorce song”, Anette explains.“When I entered Nightwish my ex husband wanted to divorce me. So in the middle of becoming a big singer in a big band and having my dream fulfilled I also had to go through a very hard divorce with a little son. I think I needed to write a song about that.” However, a song like that can work on different levels, she agrees. “That thing withNightwish was also like a divorce, a really hard divorce. It's always like that when people separate and go in different directions with hurt feelings.”
You can't help but notice that Anette Olzon has quite a bit on her mind since strikingly many songs deal with pain and loss, snuggling as melancholic semi-ballads into the auricle. But in the face of her outward cheerfulness she's always had a sad and melancholic streak inside, she says. “In my childhood I was bullied in school and my parents divorced when I was quite young. So I've always been the kind of person that when you enter the room I'm like the happy little girl that wants everyone to laugh and be happy. I'm like a clown who is really happy on the outside but has a very dark melancholic thing inside as well that needs to come. And that's what I did with these songs.”
However, Anette is aware that sadness and melancholy belong to life just as much as cheerfulness and pleasure do and hence doesn't succumb to negativity or self-pity on her album. On the contrary, by facing her painful experiences she vanquished them and thus grows stronger. Accordingly, the album title “Shine” does eventually convey a confident and powerful message: No matter what happens to you and how people treat you – always shine! “I chose this title because the album is of course a little bit melancholic in many ways but there is also a lot of hope in it, there's sunshine through the rain, that's what I wanted to show with this 'Shine'. And no matter what happens to you, you can always choose to stay strong, choose the sunshine and the positive things, no matter how dark it is in life.”
So to come full circle: How does it sound like, the first solo outing of Anette Olzon? Not like Nightwish, that's for sure. Neither like Alyson Avenue, the Swedish rock formation Anette was singing in before she joined Nightwish. Let's put it this way: From the defiant rocker 'Shine' via the mighty power anthems 'Falling' and 'Lies', where Anette makes the most of the enormous range of her beautiful voice, through to the saccharine ballads 'Moving Away' and 'Floating', her debut presents everything a good album should have. Its absolute highlights, however, are those two songs she wrote for two very special men in her life: The dreamy goose bumps song 'Invincible'which she dedicated to her oldest son, and the heart-melting 'Watching Me From Afar', a declaration of love for her present husband – if this piano ballad with its stirring drum background doesn't move you then you are surely beyond help. And last but not least: The epic piano power ballad 'One Million Faces', the only “new” song on the album which Anette did not only write with “her two boys” but also with the help of two other songwriters fromWithin Temptation (Martijn Spierenburg) and the Swedish power metal group Bloodbound (Fredrik Bergh). “In the end, it is a rock album,” says Anette. “Well, a pop rock album maybe, or would you call it pop metal?””
Whether metal album, rock album, pop album or pop rock album – at all events, “Shine” is an astonishing album. Because it exceptionally masters the splits between melancholy and hope, between fragility and power. Because it showcases an artist who doesn't rest on her laurels but heads boldly into the future. Because it shines."
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