TRILLIUM vocalist Amanda Somerville is featured in a new interview with Germany-based online webzine, Stalker. She discusses her career this far and her new Trillium album, Alloy. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Your new baby is called Trillium, why did you choose a new band name and did not just release another solo record?

Somerville: "The motivation to make my own metal album came when I was working on HDK with Sander Gommans a few years ago. I loved writing and performing metal music and had planned to make my next solo album more uniformly in that direction. But after some careful consideration, I decided to make it a project to keep it totally separate from my solo music, so that I can still put a jazz ballad or Jamaican drinking song on my next solo album and not have to explain or apologize to anyone. ;-) It´s still 100% me and those who know me as a solo artist are used to me being rather musically schizophrenic, but since I´m relatively new in the metal scene, I wanted to keep it more clear-cut."

Q: The record features a very beautiful duet named 'Scream It' with Jorn Lande (MASTERPLAN, AVANTASIA): why did you choose Jorn as partner and can you tell us a bit more about the story behind it? What is the song about?

Somerville: "I´m glad you like it! Since working with Jorn on Avantasia in 2008, he´s become a very good friend and won my utmost respect as a musician and vocalist. The man is an incredible talent and I adore his voice! He´s also a wonderful person and can play a role perfectly. I had him in mind when I wrote the antagonistic role in 'Scream It' and I was fortunate enough to have him gladly take part. He did an incredible job and it was exactly what I had in mind. The song is kind of a metal Romeo and Juliet tragic love story. In the beginning, everything is wonderful (as it always is when you´re newly in love ;-), but then things hit a bump in the road and it turns out that Jorn is a psychopathic killer who was trying extremely hard to be 'normal,' but it´s just not working out for him, so he keeps warning me that he´s no good for me. My character kind of knew he had a dark past, but still is optimistic and keeps brushing off his warnings, naively thinking that love conquers all. Well, he ends up killing me, so it didn´t quite work out the way my romantic character hoped!"

Q: How do the plans look with Trillium for the upcoming months, do you think we finally get you to see on tour with this band?

Somerville: "Though I can´t quite announce them yet until everything is 100% nailed down, there are plans for touring with Trillium. I´ll announce them as soon as they are!"

Click here for the complete interview.

The Alloy tracklist is as follows:

'Machine Gun'

'Coward'

'Purge'

'Utter Descension'

'Bow To The Ego'

'Mistaken'

'Scream It'

'Justifiable Casualty'

'Path Of Least Resistance'

'Into The Dissonance'

'Slow It Down'

'Love Is An Illusion' (bonus track)

Alloy was released on November 4th in Europe and November 1st in North America. The first video from the album is for the track 'Coward' which can be viewed below: