The album’s 14 tracks are composed of 4 brand-new offerings and 10 live performances of already beloved material from the band’s oeuvre. However, there’s a slight catch: Hunter’s Moon is a full-length album, yes, but it’s actually an EP’s worth of new material. On the heels of their very first live album, 2017’s A Decade of Delain: Live at Paradiso, Delain - Westerholt, Wessels, Guitarists Timo Somers and Merel Bechtold, Bassist Otto Schimmelpenninck van der Oije, and Drummer Joey Marin de Boer - offer fans some new material in the form of Hunter’s Moon. Over the next ten years (and some change), the band would release five epic full-length albums – from 2006’s Lucidity to 2016’s Moonbathers – paving the way for the group to cross the Atlantic and win over a vast array of Metal fans’ hearts with their stellar live show and superb musicianship. As he poured his heart and soul into this new music and the project developed, Vocalist Charlotte Wessels came on-board and the new group was officially born in 2005.
Their brand-new CD/Blu-ray combo, Hunter’s Moon, combines the two - live material along with a preview of their newest studio material - and it arrives on Friday, February 22, 2019, thanks to Napalm Records.ĭutch Symphonic Metalheads Delain began their lengthy journey nearly seventeen years ago when Keyboardist Martijn Westerholt returned to writing and recording music following his departure from Within Temptation. It has been two years since Delain offered up their very first live album, A Decade of Delain: Live at Paradiso, and three years since they delivered new studio material on 2016’s Moonbathers.