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Frontiers Records is excited to present a new and interesting musical project called TRILLIUM which features the talents of the American singer and songwriter Amanda Somerville.
Mostly known for her catalogue of projects, studio work, guest appearances and live shows garnered to date with bands like AVANTASIA, KAMELOT and EPICA, her most recent endeavors include touring with renowned artist Ian Gillan (DEEP PURPLE) and a duet album entitled Kiske-Somerville with metal legend Michael Kiske (HELLOWEEN).
TRILLIUM is however something new, exciting and very diverse for Amanda, who describes it “more like an expedition with my musical family to explore and celebrate the metamorphosis I've gone through as an artist over the past several years. Quite simply, it's my new baby”.
The TRILLIUM name came about since it “symbolizes a trinity because things are always showing up in 3s in my environment and there are a number of triads occurring in this project, as well” tells Amanda. “The name of the album, "Alloy," is symbolic and metaphorical. An alloy is a substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals combined with a nonmetal, intimately mixed. It also means standard; quality; fineness and is an admixture, as of good with evil. I'm a Pisces, so I'm all about duality and combining known elements - sometimes opposing each other - to create something different. Though I've been working myself further and further into the metal scene, I still always feel the need to add an extra element to make it shine, bling, stand out”.
Musically TRILLIUM is going to be a hybrid of rock and metal: it's riffy, has a heavy hand instrumentally and is quite different from anything Amanda has worked on so far. The creative team on the album includes the acclaimed Sascha Paeth & Miro (KAMELOT, AVANTASIA, EPICA, AFTER FOREVER, ANGRA etc.) on production, songwriting and performances with the participation of Sander Gommans (ex After Forever) and also features Jorn Lande on a very special duet with Amanda.
Amanda's sound is eclectic yet particular, sweet yet raw and commercial yet conventionally-challenged. Singer-songwriter metal with bling. Think Annie Lennox, Doro, Rob Zombie and Sade thrown into a blender and whipped into a frothy concoction. Watch out for those razor blades. Prosit!
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about
Emotional warfare is a bitch, but revenge can be sweet.
lyrics
Machine Gun
TRILLIUM - Alloy
Music - Somerville, Gommans / Lyrics - Somerville
So, what I want to know is ~ How did you get through my security? ~ Don’t turn us into a war zone ~ Here I thought with you I had immunity ~ So, here we go ~ You’re about to blow and I see now ~ It was a set up with your talking ~ And there you go ~ Moving too fast and I’m too slow ~ To duck and run because you wound ~ Chorus: Like a machine gun ~ No break between a hit ~ You’re a machine gun ~ And I'm running on for cover ~ Like a machine gun ~ The hurting never quits ~ I’m under fire ~ Fire! ~ Machine...: ~ Screw you with what you’re about to do ~ Set afire, annihilate our alliance ~ Well, boo hoo ~ So you were hurt before, too ~ That doesn’t mean that you’re justified in your violence ~ Now it’s a civil war ~ ‘Cause you started this within the union ~ Must want it bad, ‘cause you keep talking ~ But I’m no civil whore, civil bore ~ Remember you started this ~ Sight in and take aim ~ Let loose... ~ :Chorus: ~ Too bad for you ~ You’re not the right caliber ~ Smoke-stacked and bested by a girl ~ Our treaty lost, thrown out through the window ~ Watch out ‘cause I learned from the best... ~ Now I’m a machine gun ~ You’re gonna learn how to take a hit ~ I’m an extreme one ~ I’ll have you running on for cover ~ Like a machine gun ~ The hurt will never quit ~ I’m aiming higher ~ ‘Cause I am becoming your machine gun ~ And I’m never, ever gonna quit ~ You’re under fire ~ Fire! ~ Machine...
credits
from Alloy,
released November 1, 2011
Music - Somerville, Gommans / Lyrics - Somerville
Credits: Produced by Sascha Paeth Recorded @ Gate Studios, Wolfsburg, Germany; Eternia Studio, Reuver, the Netherlands; Stoutstead, Flushing, MI, USA Sound engineering by Sascha, Simon Oberender, Amanda, Sander, Olaf Reitmeier & Miro Mixed by Sascha Paeth @ Pathway Studio, Wolfsburg, Germany Mastered by Simon Oberender @ Gate Studios Artwork & Photos by Stefan Heilemann (Heilemania)
Lead & Backing Vocals - Amanda Somerville Guest Vocals on “Scream It” - Jorn Lande Guitars - Sascha Paeth & Sander Gommans Bass - Sascha Paeth
Drums - Sascha Paeth & Robert Hunecke Keys - Sascha, Miro, Simon, & Amanda Orchestral Arrangements & Instrumentation - Miro
Considered a Metal Diva in the European symphonic metal scene (though work with Avantasia, Epica, Kamelot, etc.), Amanda
Somerville is a singer-songwriter originally of the pop / rock vein who's been roughed up at the edges with a razor blade, painted over the scars with makeup and is now sweetly taking her revenge on the microphone....more
