The name of the band comes from the Kingdom of Delain in Stephen King s novel, The Eyes of the Dragon. Delain is a Dutch symphonic metal band formed in 2002 by former Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Westerholt and singer Charlotte Wessels. Living the Heavy Metal Dream: Geoff Thorpe Talks V. Delain performing live at Epic Metal Fest, 2015.Millions Served: Delain Conquers YouTube and Beyond.Megadeth's "Peace Sells." at 30: A Thrash Master.Life After Death: Richard Christy Watches the Damned.Black Sabbath's "Technical Ecstasy" at 40: An Ecle.I hope the same thing will happen with Merel with the next album.” Actually, Timo told me recently that he’s really proud of this Delain record because he was really able to put his mark on it. It’s not a must-have, but it would be very desirable. We are encouraging the band members to be involved in it. We free-write everything, and we don’t really think about, ‘How are we going to pull this off live?’ The sky’s the limit with the creative process that’s how it should be. Guus is not in the live band, but he always has been part of Delain. But it’s coming there anyway, because the core writers are me, Charlotte and Guus. I’m talking about hopping on in terms of contributing to an album. As a band member, you can hop on you’re very welcome to hop on. I always see Delain as a train that’s just rolling. That’s not really the way Delain works anyway. She had to focus on these things, and she didn’t really come around to help us with the album. She was also busy with two other bands and following a Dutch education called Rock Academy. She still had to tie up some loose ends in what she was doing at the time. She was just filling in for Timo and the time, but it went so well that we decided to ask her to join the band permanently as a second guitarist. “She joined us January last year on a tour. Their 2014 clip for “Stardust” had reached nearly 5.3 million views at the time of this writing.) (Of course, this isn't Delain's first video to hit seven digits. (laughs) It’s great to know we hit 1 million views already.” When it comes to the video, it’s nowadays so necessary to be present on YouTube that’s the way to go. You don’t see a lot of electronic and orchestral elements coming together in one song most of the time in music, but I think in this case, it really worked out. I think it’s a perfect mixture and blending of all these elements.
There are electronic elements in there, there’s riffing going on, there’s melody going on. “But I think it’s because it’s a good for us as Delain, because all of the elements you can find in our music can be found in that song. “I would drive a very big Porsche and live in a very big house if I knew the answer to the $1 million question in the music industry,” Westerholt replied with a chuckle.