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Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) Announces Here New Album, Due Out Later in 2024 via Napalm Records

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Charismatic Dutch singer/songwriter Charlotte Wessels is set to release her new studio album on September 20, 2024 via Napalm Records! The striking first single, “The Exorcism”, will be released on May 16, 2024. Wessels’ album promises a cohesive exploration of fear and liberation, as well as spellbinding melancholia and dark, catchy elements meeting progressive and heavier soundscapes. Wessels and her band will bring this story to the stage on October 4, 2024 at Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg. Grab your tickets here:

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Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) Relaunches Her Patreon and Plots a Course to Her Next Album and a Headline Tour

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Former Delain singer Charlotte Wessels has shared a video update with fans to start 2024. She is relaunching her Patreon, started several years ago to create new music, originally as a side-project to Delain. After splitting with the band she launched her studio – Six Feet Under, wrote and recorded two albums: Tales From Six Feet Under Vol. I, and Tales From Six Feet Under Vol. II, as well as countless covers, and mounted a show debuting the new music live. Now she is relaunching her community online, planning a new album and her first tour in many years, afterwards.

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INTERVIEW: Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) – “Tales From Six Feet Under Vol. II” Album Breakdown

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Ghost Cult Keefy caught up with Charlotte Wessels to discuss her new album “Tales From Six Feet Under Vol II” – out now via Napalm Records! We discussed her career post-Delain, her recent two albums, building her own studio, her forrays away from metal into rock, pop, and other sub-genres of music, the return of live shows, her tight-knit Patreon community, and the relationship and mutual respect she shares with her fans. Continue reading →


Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) to Release Solo Debut – “Tales From Six Feet Under”

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Former Delain singer and songwriter Charlotte Wessels will release her solo debut album Tales From Six Feet Under, via Napalm Records on September 17, 2021. The album is a compilation of her tracks from her pandemic era Patreon sessions, in which she put out an eclectic series of tracks, one per month, from her home recording studio, Six Feet Under Studios. The album also features a stirring collab with Alissa White-Gluz of Arch Enemy. Check out the first single and new video for Soft Revolution – along with a studio report from a few months back.

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Delain’s Martijn Westerholt Disbands The Current Lineup of The Band, Charlotte Wessels Going Solo

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Delain has made a startling announcement that most of the current lineup of the band has been disbanded, with only founder/keyboardist/composer Martijn Westerholt remaining. Martijn plans to “keep Delain alive” by taking it back to a project form, releasing new music with special guests. Apparently, all of the former bandmates will continue with music, with vocalist Charlotte Wessels going full-time with the solo project she launched on Patreon during the start pandemic.

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PODCAST: Episode 119: Thomas Youngblood of Kamelot

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Ghost Cult caught up with Thomas Youngblood of Kamelot recently to discuss their brand new live album/concert DVD and Blu-ray Kamelot – I Am The Empire – Live From The 013, out now via Napalm Records (review here). Thomas talked about the new live album, the production and planning that went into the concerts, the specialness of the 013 Poppodium venue in Tilburg, working with guests such as Elize Ryd of Amaranthe, Lauren Hart of Once HumNetheran, German string quartet Eklipse, Charlotte Wessels of Delain and Alissa White Gluz of Arch Enemy, Avantasia guitarist Sascha Paeth, writing materials with guests in mind, performing with a children’s choir, which included his son, how he has been spending the pandemic, and plans for new Kamelot music. Purchase the live album set at this link and listen to our chat. Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Kamelot – I Am The Empire – Live From The 013

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Ah, gigs. Remember them? Well, I Am The Empire – Live From The 013 (Napalm Records), the new live release by veteran power metal act Kamelot is a welcome reminder of what live entertainment looked like in a pre-Covid world.

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ALBUM REVIEW: Delain – Apocalypse and Chill

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The fifth full-length release from Delain finds the Dutch symphonic metal act looking towards the future with a combined sense of fear and optimism. Appearing to presage dark, dystopian times, the riffs and beats on the latest album Apocalypse & Chill (Napalm Records) are countered (for the most part) by the uplifting vocal melodies of singer Charlotte Wessels as they suggest a more hopeful future.Continue reading →


Delain – Hunter’s Moon

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The final part of a trilogy which began with the Lunar Prelude EP and continued with the Moonbathers full length, Hunter’s Moon (all Napalm Records) is the latest EP by Dutch Symphonic Metal act Delain. Comprising four new tracks and a selection of live cuts recorded on the 2017 ‘Danse Macabre’ tour in Utrecht, the live show is also included as a Blu-Ray disc.Continue reading →