I was listening to a mix on Spotify and a song by
Delain came on. Delain's main vocalist is Charlotte Wessels
(and the song was The Gathering ... no connection to the band
The Gathering whose main vocalist is Anneke van Giersbergen
) ... but then a male vocalist came in, and I thought that sounds like Marco Hietala
, so off I went to the interwebs to check, and yes, he guests on this track. I was right! Petty accomplishment!
Connections.
Marco Hietala is the bassist and male vocalist of
Nightwish ... whose current female vocalist is Floor Jansen
.
Sharon van Adel
of
Within Temptation has also worked with Delain.
I know that both Floor and Simone Simons
of
Epica have worked with Tarja Turunen
of Nightwish, and Floor has guested on an Epica track too.
Everyone works with everyone in the music industry eventually, it seems. Especially Dutch female metal singers.