ReVamp
| ReVamp | |
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 ReVamp performing live in Oslo , 2010 |
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| General information | |
| origin |
 Netherlands
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| Genre (s) | Symphonic metal |
| founding | 2009 |
| resolution | 2016 |
| Founding members | |
| Floor Jansen | |
Songwriting |
Waldemar Sorychta |
Songwriting |
Joost van den Broek |
| Last occupation | |
singing |
Floor Jansen |
| Arjan Rijnen (since 2010) | |
guitar |
Jord Otto (since 2010) |
| Henk Vonk (since 2013) | |
| Ruben Wijga (since 2010) | |
| Matthias Landes (since 2010) | |
| former members | |
bass |
Jaap Melman (2010-2013) |
ReVamp was a symphonic metal band from the Netherlands that was formed in 2009 and disbanded in 2016.
history
After the symphonic metal band After Forever broke up in 2009, their former singer Floor Jansen intended to start a new musical project. With Waldemar Sorychta and the former after-forever keyboardist Joost van den Broek, she was joined by two composers with whom she worked on an album. On October 17, 2009, Jansen announced the band name ReVamp on MySpace. After the album was finished, the line-up formed at the beginning of 2010, in which the band presented themselves from now on in their live performances: Floor Jansen (vocals), Arjan Rijnen and Jord Otto (guitar), Jaap Melman (bass), Ruben Wijga ( Keyboard) and Matthias Landes (drums). The band performed at the Graspop Metal Meeting on June 25, 2010 in Dessel ( Belgium ). The band's debut album, entitled ReVamp , was released in Europe in May 2010 and in the US in July 2010. The album reached number 58 in the Dutch charts . The band already used the Greek letter Omega ( Ω ) as their logo to design their debut .
In 2011 the band had to cancel several concerts - including a planned tour through Latin America - due to Floor Jansen's health problems. On October 1st, 2012 Floor Jansen was introduced as a guest singer for the remaining concerts of the ongoing Imaginaerum World Tour of the symphonic metal band Nightwish . After the tour was over, Jansen took part in the recording of ReVamp's second album. On May 15, 2013 it was announced that bassist Jaap Melman has left the band. At the same time, Henk Vonk was presented as his successor. The second album Wild Card was released on August 23, 2013. Jansen's burnout syndrome , which led to the cancellation of the 2011 Latin American tour in 2011, was conceptually taken up on the album . It reached number 21 in the Finnish and number 43 in the Dutch charts.
On October 9, 2013 Floor Jansen was confirmed as the official singer for Nightwish. According to Jansen, the continued existence of ReVamp remains unaffected. In November 2013 a joint European tour followed with the melodic power metal band Kamelot . In April and May 2014 ReVamp completed their first North American tour with the bands Iced Earth and Sabaton . After the group initially announced a long-term break, the musicians announced their breakup in September 2016. Jansen wants to concentrate on Nightwish in her musical activity.
style
The group's music corresponds to symphonic metal. For a more precise differentiation, ReVamp is compared with other performers of Female-Fronted Symphonic-Metal, mainly with After Forever and Nightwish. Floor Jansen was temporarily involved as a singer in both comparative figures. The Internet portal Musikreviews, on the other hand, compares the group with “modern and commercially oriented albums by WITHIN TEMPTATION ”. The sound of the group is extremely complex and uses grooves , deeper staccato riffing, aggressively thumping drums and occasional guest growls as well as bombast kitsch, classical orchestrations and choirs .
The band is given a high degree of independence in the genre, especially because of the guitar playing and Jansen's voice volume. Jansen's singing is certified with a high degree of variability, ranging from “operatic soprano to the pleasant warmth of lower pitches to powerful rock pipes”. The guitar playing is also described as extremely variable. When using the electric guitar, the music draws on elements of progressive - as well as Nu - and Thrash metal . The keyboard meanwhile provides symphonic elements.
Discography
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- 2010: ReVamp (album, Nuclear Blast)
- 2013: Nothing (single, Nuclear Blast)
- 2013: Wild Card (album, Nuclear Blast)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Floor Jansen on myspace.com
- ↑ ReVamp. Graspop Metal Meeting, accessed November 16, 2015 .
- ↑ ReVamp (album) in the Dutch charts
- ^ Official website of ReVamp
- ^ Announcement on lastfm.de , June 15, 2011
- ^ Official website of Nightwish
- ^ Message on metalunderground.com , May 16, 2013
- ↑ a b c d Florian Schörg: ReVamp: Wild Card. Metal.de, accessed on June 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Wild Card in the Finnish charts
- ↑ Wild Card in the Dutch charts
- ↑ Press release on the Nightwish official website
- ^ Official website of Floor Jansen , October 28, 2013
- ^ Message on metal-hammer.de , October 29, 2013
- ↑ Report on metal-fm.com , February 25, 2014
- ↑ Eike Cramer: ReVamp: Floor Jansen announces the end of the band. Metal Hammer, accessed October 1, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Sonata: ReVamp: Wild Card. Stormbringer.at, accessed on June 18, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Daniel Fischer: ReVamp: ReVamp. Musikreviews.de, accessed on June 18, 2016 .
- ↑ DutchCharts.nl: Placements in the Dutch charts
- ↑ Ultratop.be: ReVamp placements in the Flemish charts