Epica singer Simone Simons has introduced her debut solo album Vermillion.
The Dutch symphonic steel vocalist will liberate the document by the use of Nuclear Blast on August 23.
The paintings is to be had beneath.
Vermillion’s lead unmarried, Aeterna, is now streaming.
The track is a collaboration with Ayreon mastermind Arjen Lucassen.
Simons and Lucassen remark at the new observe: “Aeterna is the large, epic opener of the album and it comes with this wonderful video too, directed through Patric Ullaeus.
“It surely sounds the nearest to Epica and Ayreon, mixing robust Latin lyrics with a slightly of an oriental really feel. We’ve attempted to strike a steadiness between the mighty, bombastic sounds and the extra atmospheric portions.
“Because it’s the primary observe other folks will listen from this album, it’s tremendous essential to us and we’re actually excited for other folks to listen to it!”
They proceed: “Aeterna takes the perspective of a celebrity about to head supernova to discover how the entirety within the universe is interconnected, like a cosmic internet constructed from stardust.
“It offers with our deep feelings, awareness and different mysteries of existence that science nonetheless can’t totally give an explanation for. Necessarily it’s a mirrored image on our position within the huge universe and the connections that bind us in combination, as we’re all, to cite Carl Sagan, ‘made from starstuff’.”
Epica launched their newest full-length album, Omega, in 2021 and the EP The Alchemy Challenge in 2022.
In March, Simons informed Summa Inferno {that a} new Epica album might be launched in 2025.
“I like the songs up to now that we’ve written,” she stated (in line with Blabbermouth).
“There’s extra [songs that have been written] than are compatible at the album. So it’s gonna be cool. And we received’t excursion that a lot this 12 months. So we’re that specialize in the Epica album and the Symphonic Synergy presentations [where Epica will play alongside an orchestra], which is a large number of paintings.”
