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Delain is a Dutch symphonic metal band formed in 2002 by former Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Westerholt, intending for the band to be solely a project. Singer Charlotte Wessels was invited to join in 2005. In February 2021, the members parted ways while Westerholt stated he would continue the band as a solo project. In June 2021, Westerholt announced that there would be a new lineup involving former and new members, with Diana Leah later being announced as the new lead vocalist in August 2022.
As of 2025, Delain have released seven studio albums, three EPs, one live album and nineteen music videos.
In 2005, he joined with Charlotte Wessels, and was signed to Roadrunner Records. At the time, the band was envisioned as a musical project featuring a host of guest musicians, and not as a live band.
Lucidity brought to fruition Westerholt's dream of a musical project, featuring many well-known musicians from the metal community: Marko Hietala, Liv Kristine, Ariën van Weesenbeek, Ad Sluijter, George Oosthoek and Guus Eikens, Sharon den Adel and Jan Yrlund.
Despite many delays, Lucidity was released in September 2006, to generally positive reviews. The album spawned three singles: "Frozen", "See Me in Shadow" and "The Gathering", and the response to the album allowed Delain to tour in support in the Netherlands and neighbouring countries. Rob van der Loo, Ronald Landa and Sander Zoer were added on bass, guitar and drums respectively to round out the live band.
At the end of 2007, Delain announced that they were working on their second album. New songs from the album – "Stay Forever" and "Start Swimming" – were added to the band's setlist in early 2008. Their second album, April Rain was released on 9 February 2009. The lead single was the title track, "April Rain", followed by "Stay Forever". The band toured extensively in support of the album, visiting many new countries such as the United States and Mexico, as well as performing at high-profile festivals in Europe, including Hellfest, Lowlands, Wacken Open Air and Sonisphere. In February 2010, Delain announced they had started working on their third album, and that bassist Rob van der Loo would leave the band the same year due to time constraints. In March, Otto Schimmelpenninck van der Oije was announced as Rob's successor. On 4 October 2010, Delain announced they were to part company with guitarist Ewout Pieters. Timo Somers was announced as his replacement on 17 April 2011.
Delain released a compilation album entitled Interlude that includes new songs, covers, live tracks, special versions of previous songs and a bonus DVD. It was released on various dates throughout the first week of May worldwide.
Drummer Sander Zoer stepped down from the band on 4 June 2014 for personal reasons; though he would continue working behind the scenes of Delain. Ruben Israel was announced at the same time as his replacement.
The band brought with them Merel Bechtold as a second guitarist for their UK tour in November 2014. Bassist Otto Schimmelpenninck van der Oije suffered an injury on 26 November 2014, when he was accidentally hit by a streamer cannon, causing his left testicle to rupture. This incident was said to be caused by uncertain stage positioning, as there were six people onstage instead of the usual five. While he was recovering, the band used pre-recorded bass parts. No permanent damage was done, and Schimmelpenninck van der Oije resumed touring in January 2015. Merel Bechtold filled in for guitarist Timo Somers until February, due to Somers' full schedule.
Delain toured with Sabaton and Battle Beast, and also North America with Sabaton as support for Nightwish for the first half of 2015 and returned to Latin America during October as support of them. Delain toured as support again for Nightwish's tour on the second North American leg in 2016 with Sonata Arctica. This made it the fourth year in a row the band had toured in the United States and Canada.
On 19 October 2015, Delain made recurring touring guitarist Merel Bechtold a permanent member.
Delain announced an eight track Extended play of new and live songs named Lunar Prelude. The EP was released on 19 February 2016. Their first single, "Suckerpunch", of the EP was released on 5 February.
The band announced a new album of ten original songs and one "Queen" cover named Moonbathers. The record was released on 26 August 2016.
Delain's first live video album, was filmed at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, Netherlands for the band's 10th anniversary on 10 December 2016. It was released on 27 October 2017.
On 30 August 2018, Joey de Boer was made a permanent member of Delain after filling in for Ruben Israel, who left the band in October 2017.
Delain announced a new EP titled Hunter's Moon on 13 December 2018. The EP was released on 22 February 2019. "Masters of Destiny", the first single off of the EP was released on 11 January 2019 along with a music video.
Merel Bechtold announced on 16 June 2019 that she was amicably leaving the band to pursue other musical interests. Her last show with Delain took place at Graspop Metal Meeting on 23 June 2019.
On 27 September 2019, "Burning Bridges", the first single off of the album was released, which made its debut days before during their North America tour. On 15 November 2019, the second single off of the album, "One Second", was released.
The band officially announced the title of their sixth studio album, Apocalypse & Chill, on 29 November 2019. It was released on 7 February 2020.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the band was nominated by Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz for a benefit livestream concert called Together at Home. Lead singer Charlotte Wessels and guitarist Timo Somers both participated and did an acoustic version of songs and were the final performers of the livestream nominations.
On 9 June 2021, Westerholt stated in an interview that the band would continue to be a live entity that would consist of new and former members. He continued on to state that there would be a lot of Delain DNA in the new lineup.
It was announced on 28 June 2021 that Sander Zoer who previously was Delain's drummer, had returned as the first member for the new lineup of the band. On 12 July 2021, Delain reintroduced Ronald Landa who was the band's original guitarist up until April Rain, as their guitarist. On 28 February 2022, it was announced that former bassist Rob van der Loo would be featured as a guest musician for the album. On 19 May 2022, Ludovico Cioffi joined the band as the new bassist. While announcing that they would return to performing shows in November 2022, the band released the new single, "The Quest and the Curse", on 9 August 2022, as well as announcing their new lead vocalist, Diana Leah. The band's new lineup performed for the first time in Aarburg, Switzerland for the Riverside festival on 27 August 2022. The second single, "Beneath", which was performed by the band in Zwolle was released on 29 November 2022. Simultaneously on the same day of the single's release, the band also announced the title of their seventh studio album, Dark Waters, which was released on 10 February 2023. On 10 January 2023, the third single along with a music video in support of it was released for the song, "Moth to a Flame".
To support the release of Dark Waters, the band toured Europe in April and May 2023 with Xandria and Illumishade, followed by a North American tour in September 2023 with Visions of Atlantis.
On 5 September 2024, the band released the single "Dance with the Devil", and simultaneously announced an EP of the same name, which was released on 8 November 2024. Two other singles were released in support of the EP, a live version of "Moth to a Flame", and "The Reaping". In support of the EP's release, Delain toured North America in March 2025 with Xandria and Edge of Paradise. The band is set to take a year off from touring, after two performances in Amstelveen and Enschede in October 2025, to focus on songwriting for their upcoming eighth studio album.
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
| 2007 | "Frozen" | 36|rowspan=4 Lucidity | |
| "See Me in Shadow" | 46 | ||
| "Shattered" | — | ||
| 2008 | "The Gathering" | — | |
| 2009 | "Stay Forever" | —|rowspan=2 April Rain | |
| "April Rain" | — | ||
| "Smalltown Boy" | —|rowspan=1 Interlude | ||
| 2010 | "Nothing Left" | —|rowspan=1 April Rain | |
| 2012 | "Get the Devil Out of Me" | —|rowspan=2 We Are the Others | |
| "We Are the Others" | — | ||
| 2013 | "Are You Done with Me" | — Interlude | |
| 2014 | "Your Body Is a Battleground" | —|rowspan=3 The Human Contradiction | |
| "Stardust" | — | ||
| 2015 | "Sing to Me" | — | |
| 2016 | "Suckerpunch" | — Lunar Prelude | |
| "The Glory and the Scum" | —|rowspan=2 Moonbathers | ||
| "Fire with Fire" | — | ||
| 2019 | "Masters of Destiny" | — Hunter's Moon | |
| "Burning Bridges" | —|rowspan="3" Apocalypse & Chill | ||
| "One Second" | — | ||
| 2020 | "Ghost House Heart" | — | |
| 2022 | "The Quest and the Curse" | —|rowspan="4" Dark Waters | |
| "Beneath" | — | ||
| 2023 | "Moth to a Flame" | — | |
| "Queen of Shadow" | — | ||
| 2024 | "Dance with the Devil" | —|rowspan="3" Dance with the Devil | |
| "Moth to a Flame" (live) | — | ||
| "The Reaping" | — | ||
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