User:Michielvv/Trisomy (band)

Trisomy is a Dutch Female fronted rock/metal band co-founded by current guitar player Michiel van Veen.

1997 - 2001 The early years...
As most bands, Trisomy started out as a typical high school band in the post-grunge era.

2001 - 2004 Going for it...
Half of the members that were with Trisomy from the beginning left the band, the other half decided to persue their goal of making Trisomy bigger. Maarten Siem, Pieter van den Berkmortel and Irene Visser joined the band. Trisomy recorded a Teaser to promote the band and arrange gigs throughout the Netherlands. The Teaser was followed up by the EP Entanglement which brought Trisomy a long list of gigs and a lot of attention from the scene in the fall of 2003 until spring 2004. In that period, a second guitar player joined Trisomy (Eric Hazebroek) to enforce the live sound and broaden the style.

2004 - 2006 Changes...
During the spring 2004, the continuing problems surrounding Irene led the band to decided to not futher continue working with her. For the gigs that were already planned, Trisomy's former vocalist Laura Schoegje temporarily took up this task as auditions were planned. With Laura, Trisomy managed to win the big band battle Noord Hollands Glorie 2004 and made it to the semi-finals of the Dutch battle of the bands 2004 (Grote prijs van Nederland). Because Laura was unable to perform at all gigs, Trisomy found another vocalist: Martine Thijs who performed at various gigs at the time.

For the promotion of the semi-finals, representative material was needed. Trisomy decided to record a few songs on a CDDemo to deliver representative material instead of the Entanglement EP. For vocals on this CDDemo Trisomy asked Martine Thijs to take up the task. During the summer of 2004, the CDDemo V was recorded at the studio of Marc Bruijn. The intention was to only record a simple CDDemo for the sake of promotion for the Dutch battle of the bands. However, V was very well received by both the press and the public. Trisomy decided to provide the songs for download for free. Up til now, approx. 30.000 downloads have been registered from the Trisomy website alone.

Because of the good combination of Martine Thijs and Trisomy, the band asked Martine Thijs to join as a vocalist. However, Martine was living in the east of the Netherlands, which caused a lot of practical problems getting this to work out. At that time Martine decided to not persue this. After having had a lot of auditions of vocalists, Trisomy was unable to find a suitable vocalist. At the same time Martine's doubt about her decision and her craving for Trisomy grew. As a result, Martine decided to join Trisomy in the winter of 2004.

2006 - 2008 More changes...
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2008 - An album...
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Style
Trisomy plays a combination of rock and metal fronted by female vocals. Instead of using typical classical / soprano style vocals, Trisomy's vocals are more rock oriented and less angelic / opera like than other bands in the scene. Furthermore, the band is guitar oriented instead of synthesizer oriented, and uses the synthesizer more for as a sequencer and for FX. The music itself bares resamblances with for example The Gathering, Evanescence and Lacuna Coil. Trisomy combines rock and metal by joining atmospheric and tranquil passages with heavy rocky guitars without loosing the song in the process.

Current members

 * Eva Kokken - Vocals (2006)
 * Michiel van Veen - Guitars (1997)
 * Maarten Siem - Synthesizer (2001)
 * Pieter van den Berkmortel - Bass (2002)
 * Marc Bruijn - Drums (2006)

Past members

 * Laura Schoegje - Vocals (1998 - 2002)
 * Irene Visser - Vocals (2002 - 2004)
 * Martine Thijs - Vocals (2004 - 2006)
 * Hans Koets - Guitars (1997 - 1998)
 * Eric Hazebroek - guitars (2003 - 2008)
 * Jelle Splinter - Bass (1997 - 2001)
 * Frank Kraak - Drums (1997 - 2006)

Discography

 * 1998 - Words Irrelevant (6 songs)
 * 2000 - Under Your Skin (4 songs)
 * 2002 - Teaser (2 songs)
 * 2003 - Entanglement (4 songs)
 * 2004 - V (3 songs)
 * 2010 - Breathe (9 songs): to be released

Achievements

 * Supported bands on stage, amongst others:
 * Paradise Lost
 * My Dying Bride
 * The Gathering
 * After Forever
 * Epica
 * Delain
 * Winner of the various band battles, amongst is the Noord Hollands Glorie 2004
 * Semi finals of the band battle Grote Prijs van Nederland.

Endorsements

 * Mayones Guitars