Name: Justifiable Casualty
Duration: P00H05M35S
Description: We quickly forget the sounds of regret with hate in our hearts and blood in the sand.

Justifiable Casualty

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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We quickly forget the sounds of regret with hate in our hearts and blood in the sand.

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Justifiable Casualty
Music - Gommans, Somerville / Lyrics - Somerville
First off, you hear it said somehow that everything’s fair in love and war ~ How is it right to destroy a life to the core? ~ But did you stop and ever wonder what it means to trade your love for a battle scar? ~ No one wins in the outs and ins of the heart ~ Civil war and now to mend a broken hearted land will take a hundred years or more ~ What’s it worth if you’re ending up in the dirt? ~ She said, “You can’t force an army to care for a loss not theirs.” ~ Chorus: Tears of ages dry, for pain is not retainable ~ We pass the time caught up in our power struggles ~ All the wasted lives ~ And every one explainable ~ We justify every casualty: ~ Sarah Dowd felt her heart bleed out when the letter came ~ She was a widow now ~ So much pain, yet we move along every day ~ She said, “The sound still rings in my head ~ A dream shot dead.”
~ :Chorus: ~ Oh, we quickly forget the sound of regret ~ With hate in our heart and blood in the sand ~ So we’re doomed to repeat mistakes that we keep committing ~ Don’t we ever suspect that the way we’re living isn’t how it’s meant to be? ~ March on, hold your flags up high and don’t forget what you’re fighting for ~ Deadly sins for a mortal win in the corps ~ She said, “There’s no one who can declare a war on warfare.” ~ :Chorus

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from Alloy, released November 1, 2011
Music - Gommans, Somerville / Lyrics - Somerville

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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