Name: Utter Descension
Duration: P00H04M18S
Description: It seems the world has gone to hell & is asking for the reset button to be pushed.

Utter Descension

from Alloy by Amanda Somerville's TRILLIUM

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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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It seems the world has gone to hell & is asking for the reset button to be pushed.

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Utter Descension
Music & Lyrics - Somerville, Paeth
Elusive in the deepest acts of taking ~ Conducive to the horrid act of breaking ~ Bending the laws to your every whim ~ I cannot win... ~ Productive in the fakest indignation ~ Seductive in the foulest fornication ~ Sending the cause into torrid sin ~ I cannot win... ~ But why would I give in to give up? ~ Chorus: Run to put it out ~ Extinguish this world on fire ~ Once we’re going down ~ We’ll all languish in the mire ~ Can we put it out? ~ We’ve all grown so very tired ~ We’re too late ~ Heart rate is critical: ~ Recessive in a sea of domination ~ Depressive by the means of resignation ~ Lending the awes to the fires within ~ I cannot win... ~ Elective is the course of action’s sermon ~ Selective is the process to determine ~ Tending with gauze all the wounds of the din ~ I cannot win... ~ So why should I give in to give up? ~ :Chorus: ~ We’re falling down into utter descension ~ We spiral round into utter descension ~ Hope goes to ground, into utter descension ~ We’re falling down... ~ :Chorus

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from Alloy, released November 1, 2011
Music & Lyrics - Somerville, Paeth

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Amanda Somerville / Trillium Flint, Michigan

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