Beyond the Boys' Club is a monthly column that focuses on women in rock and metal music as they offer their perspectives on the music industry and discuss their personal experiences. Journalist, radio host and musician Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio and the music suit on wingswrite the column. This month's article includes an interview with singer Charlotte Wessels, formerly of Delain.
Charlotte Wessels is known for her time fronting Dutch symphonic metal band Delain, but is now carving out a solo career with her recently released album. The obsession (available here).
The LP features Wessels working with his former Delain members Timo Somers (guitars, additional arrangements), Otto Schimmelpenninck van der Oije (bass) and Joey Marin de Boer (drums), along with Sophia Vernikov (piano/Hammond organ).
The songs overflow with his passionate voice amid huge guitars and grandiose atmospheres. Highlights include “Dopamine” (featuring Simone Simons) and “Ode to the West Wind” (featuring Alissa White-Gluz).
To promote the album, Wessels will embark on a UK/Europe tour in November.
Wessels spoke with Strong consequences for Beyond the Boys' Club's latest column, which discusses her rise on the Patreon platform, her songwriting process, the new album, her experience as a woman in the music industry, and more.
Congratulations on your new album, The obsession. What makes this album different from your previous solo material?
It's very different, but it started in a similar way, in the sense that it started with previous albums. I put a new song on Patreon every month, so my first solo albums were compilations of me doing that. My freshman and sophomore years, I released several songs and I didn't intend for those songs to be together on one record when I wrote them, but then I thought I didn't want to be an artist who had everything. my music behind a paywall. So, I posted compilations of those songs that I released on Patreon. It was all me in the basement, writing and recording.
For The obsessionIt started in a similar way. I started writing songs in the basement, recorded and programmed the parts and put them on my Patreon. That's where the process began. After a year of exploring different genres and learning production on my own, I wanted to work on a traditional album and write songs with musicians instead of plug-ins. So, I started writing the songs and putting them on Patreon, and when I thought I had enough tracks to fill the album, the next phase began and I started rearranging the tracks for the band's recordings.
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