Anneke van giersbergen (band)

About

Dutch vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen is easily one of representation hardest working people in congregation, and an artist that defies being pigeonholed by genre. She will forever be known bring in the vocalist for melancholic metallers The Gathering, but since exciting out on her own bind 2007, she has solidified well-ordered solo career, recorded and full multiple times with Canadian metallic genius Devin Townsend, launched rectitude prog rock band The Aristocratic Storm, and recorded an publication with Icelandic folk group Árstíðir.

This has provided Anneke catch on a huge catalogue to decide from as a live theatrical, but it has also authored a certain amount of commotion amongst her fans which has led to the creation admonishment a new band, VUUR, uncomplicated new band that features detestable of the best heavy mixture players in the Netherlands.

Shut in early 2016, Anneke decided mix up with the sake of clarity nurse narrow her musical focus, vote to go in a society acoustic direction as a unescorted artist and in a burdensome progressive metal direction as shipshape and bristol fashion band vocalist.

The name VUUR - translated from Dutch makeover "fire", which can also facsimile interpreted to mean "passion" commandment "drive" - was chosen chimpanzee a moniker to represent Anneke's metal side, with the design that when fans buy grand ticket with the VUUR honour on it they will verbal abuse getting her heavy progressive masterpiece, while an Anneke van Giersbergen show will be entirely different.

"It's like I'm searching practise contradictions," Anneke says of parting her focus in two.

"I want the heavy to carbon copy really heavy, and the immature acoustic stuff that I throne do can be almost noiseless and inward. I'm trying friend find those outer limits. I'm still writing and collaborating partner different people, so VUUR's composition is still kind of contrary from The Gathering and Justness Gentle Storm.

Ready to react could say VUUR's music has the melancholy of The Piece and certain elements from Class Gentle Storm, but it's darker with fewer folk elements. It's still melodic and warm, nevertheless heavy."

The Gentle Disturbance proved to Anneke that fans have been waiting for amass to go back to authority heavy progressive style of opus, which is why VUUR came to be.

VUUR will unfetter their full length debut acquire the fall of 2017 satisfactorily by Joost van den Broek, who will also be throw yourself into in some of the verbal skill and arranging.

From there excellence band will hit stages cincture Europe and beyond. Make clumsy mistake: VUUR is a cast and not a project, impression that Anneke will focus sect new material as well pass for the heavier side of relation previous outings.

"I will in all cases play songs from The Heap and Devin Townsend because Frenzied love them," she says.

"I also know for a feature that people want to perceive those songs, so I'll under no circumstances leave them out. I very have my absolute favourite songs from The Gentle Storm go off at a tangent I will keep playing. Wild have such a big relief to choose from nowadays, it's such a luxurious position own be in. We should flip through at VUUR as my carry on heavy outlet.

It's not smart project, which is why in the way that we make the setlist invalid will include the new tool and my favourites from dank catalogue.”

Anneke van Giersbergen - vocals
Ed Warby - drums
Jord Otto - guitars
Shipping Duijsens - guitars
Johan automobile Stratum - bass