EPICA singer Simone Simons has shared the track video for the music “Cradle To The Grave” from her just-released debut solo album
“Vermillion”, which was once made to be had on August 23 by the use of Nuclear Blast Data, is a collaboration with Simone Simon‘s longtime musical spouse Arjen Lucassen (AYREON).
The track video for “Cradle To The Grave”, which includes a particular visitor look via none rather than ARCH ENEMY’s Alissa White-Gluz, will also be noticed beneath.
Simons and Lucassen remark at the music: “‘Cradle To The Grave’ is concerning the common revel in of navigating lifestyles’s ups and downs and the hunt for that means and function. It perspectives the human situation as considered one of battle and resilience, the place in spite of efforts to construct and succeed in, there’s an underlying acceptance that lifestyles is short, finite and steadily merciless.”
Simone and Arjen prior to now mentioned about the music “Aeterna”, which acts as “Vermillion“‘s opener: “‘Aeterna’ is the massive, epic opener of the album and it comes with this superb video too, directed via Patric Ullaeus. It without a doubt sounds the nearest to EPICA and AYREON, mixing tough 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 monitor folks will pay attention from this album, it’s tremendous essential to us and we’re truly excited for folks to listen to it!
“‘Aeterna’ takes the viewpoint of a celebrity about to head supernova to discover how the whole lot within the universe is interconnected, like a cosmic internet comprised of stardust. It offers our deep feelings, awareness and different mysteries of lifestyles that science nonetheless can’t absolutely 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, ‘manufactured from starstuff.’”
About “In Love We Rust”, Simone and Arjen stated: “The video was once filmed in only one take to stay it as natural and uncooked as imaginable. We opted to stay it in black and white in order to not distract from the music or the efficiency.
“‘In Love We Rust’ is somewhat other from our first unmarried ‘Aeterna’, which presentations how various this album is. That is considered one of our favourite songs. We are hoping you like this up to we do.”
For greater than twenty years, ever since she was once an adolescent, Simons has been carving her personal trail as a girl inside the global of steel. As a lead singer, icon, and position fashion for a complete era of feminine metalheads, the EPICA lead singer stays one of the crucial outstanding key figures in all issues steel.
After 8 albums and numerous international excursions along with her band, Simone Simons after all discovered the time to unencumber her first solo album — a second 15 years within the making. Her breathtaking debut “Vermillion” is a shocking feat chronicling her storied previous in addition to her upward push to status, and showcasing her many various influences starting from prog rock to movie rankings to steel to digital components.
Of the timing for her eagerly awaited foray into the nation-states of a solo occupation, the Dutch singer says with a disarming grin: “EPICA has my precedence and I at all times have the freedom to do different musical tasks but even so my occupation in EPICA. But I by no means had the time to dive right into a venture to this extent.”
“Vermillion” monitor list:
01. Aeterna
02. In Love We Rust
03. Cradle To The Grave (feat. Alissa White-Gluz)
04. Combat Or Flight
05. Weight Of My Global
06. Vermillion Goals
07. The Core
08. Dystopia
09. R.E.D.
10. Darkish Evening Of The Soul
