Former Delain vocalist Charlotte Wessels has teamed up with Epica’s Simone Simons on new solo unmarried Dopamine.
The monitor is the 3rd unmarried launched from Wessels’ coming near near solo album The Obsession, which shall be launched on September 20 by means of Napalm Information.
Concentrate to Dopamine and watch its vibrant song video by means of the participant underneath.
Wessels explains in a commentary that the brand new tune was once written about her reports on antidepressant sertraline.
“Lyrically, Dopamine offers with SSRI brought on numbness that I skilled a couple of years in the past when I used to be on Sertraline, a kind of antidepressant,” she says.
“Whilst the drugs was once in reality useful, there have been such a lot of uncomfortable side effects that I’d by no means heard of.
“This tune offers with a few of them, and whilst it feels at risk of disclose the enjoy, I am hoping it is helping in breaking down the disgrace and taboo across the matter.”
The vocalist additionally explains how the collaboration with Simons happened.
“Simone reached out to me as I used to be first opening up about this in an interview, and when the primary model of Dopamine dropped on Patreon (as a result of path we’re each and every different’s buyers) she texted how a lot she appreciated the tune.
“So once we have been operating at the album model it best made sense to invite if she’d sing alongside at the monitor
“I’m so glad she agreed and in any case of the shared introspection, it was once nice amusing to let free dressed in purple wigs in ball pits and marshmallow swimming pools for the video recordings.”
Wessels continues: “Musically, out of all of the new album, Dopamine went during the greatest transformation.
What began out as an EDM demo for a collaboration with a dance duo that by no means came about, changed into an acoustic Tune Of The Month on Patreon, which then had a large overhaul when rearranging it with Timo [Somers, guitars].
“The brand new band model is an absolute banger, and the gorgeous visitor vocals by way of Simone whole the tune.”
The Obsession shall be Wessels’ 3rd solo album general, however her first with a complete band.
Her solo band consists of 3 fellow ex-Delain participants – Somers, bassist Otto Schimmelpenninck van der Oije and drummer Joey Marin de Boer – in addition to keyboardist Sophia Vernikov.
Wessels, Somers, Schimmelpenninck van der Oije and Marin de Boer left Delain concurrently in February 2021, leaving keyboardist Martijn Westerholt as the only real closing member.
Westerholt has since restarted Delain with an all-new lineup.
Wessels’ solo band will excursion Europe and the United Kingdom from August. See the entire listing of dates and get tickets now.
Simons will liberate her debut solo album, Vermillion, on August 23 by means of Nuclear Blast.
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