The tour, during which the performers will visit 26 cities in 13 countries, was motivated by the release of the album Aspiral by the band Epica. On it, she develops her symphonic metal, with which she impressed listeners already on previous albums. And the band’s frontwoman Simone Simons promises that this time their show will be even better.
The outstanding singer Elize Rydová, on the other hand, is at the head of the group Amaranthe. On their latest album, The Catalyst (2014), the Swedish six-piece offers an explosive mix of melodic metal with electronic elements and three singing members. Her success is also evidenced by the fact that she has already sold more than half a million albums worldwide.
Forty-one-year-old Rydová started her musical career in clubs in Gothenburg, where she collaborated with various bands. Just when she was planning to start her own group with her colleagues Olof Mörck and Joacim Lundberg, the famous Nightwish were interested in her as a possible replacement for Tarja Turunen.
In the end, however, the connection did not work out and Rydová became the singer and songwriter of the new formation Avalanche, which was renamed Amaranthe due to a dispute over the name. Her first album of the same name was released in 2011 and the band scored with it in Sweden and Finland.
Other interesting rock and metal concerts will take place here in the near future. Already on March 25, the German Die Happy will perform at the Akropolis Palace in Prague with the Czech singer Marta Jandová. On March 28, German rockers Axel Rudi Pell will head to Zlín, and on April 10, Swedish death metallers Hypocrisy will stop by the Sono club in Brno.
