Frontiers Records recently announced the release of Alloy, the highly anticipated debut album from TRILLIUM - the new metal project masterminded by American singer/songwriter AMANDA SOMERVILLE - on November 4th in Europe and November 1st in North America.

Somerville has issued Part 2 of a behind-the-scenes video diary documenting the making of Alloy. Check it out below along with Part 1:

Following is an excerpt from a new interview with Somerville conducted by BW&BK; scribe Carl Begai:

Somerville officially stepped out from behind the background vocalist curtain with the HDK debut in 2008, System Overload, a full-on metal experiment with Gommans. With that in mind, were there any left over ideas that were transformed into Trillium songs since Gommans was also involved in the songwriting for Alloy?

“No, because the stuff that Sander does for HDK is so extreme that… I don’t know if it would have worked. There were no leftovers anyway, and the things that he’s written since then, they wouldn’t have fit. I definitely have a vision of where I want my metal stuff to go.”

Folks that are expecting Somerville to follow a similar path to the work she’s done for EPICA and AVANTASIA on Alloy are in for a shock. Some tracks are attitude-laden cousins to melodic rock, others are heavy-edged and bordering-on-Black Sabbath dark. The album is almost completely devoid of orchestral arrangements and features no neo-classical bombast whatsoever, carried through numerous twists and turns instead by the vocals and some almighty riffs. Bottom line: Alloy is loaded with plenty WTF moments.

“Which is a good thing (laughs). Nothing about what I do is contrived; it all comes out the way that it comes out, and sometimes it needs to be a little more conformed, I guess. Literally, as cheesy as it sounds, the music pours out of me the way that I feel it. I don’t like following formulas. My songs have a typical song structure – verse / pre-chorus / chorus – and that’s just in me, but in terms of trying to fit a certain formula, that’s not a conscious thing for me. It’s not something I want to do, either. That’s why there are no Latin choirs on the album (laughs).”
“I’ve actually gotten comparisons to Epica and After Forever. In fact, one guy made the After Forever comparison before he knew that Sander was one of the songwriters on Alloy. That kind of surprised me, but Sander does have a signature sound, but I don’t hear the similarities.”

Click here for more, including Somerville discussing working with Sascha Paeth and Avantasia bandmate Jorn Lande (MASTERPLAN) on the song 'Scream It'.

Alloy will be exclusively released in a lavish digipak CD edition and will include the following songs:

'Machine Gun'

'Machine Gun'

'Coward'

'Coward'

'Purge'

'Utter Descension'

'Bow To The Ego'

'Mistaken'

'Scream It'

'Scream It'

'Justifiable Casualty'

'Path Of Least Resistance'

'Into The Dissonance'

'Slow It Down'

'Love Is An Illusion' (bonus track)

Trillium lineup:

Amanda Somerville - Lead and backing Vocals, Keyboards

Sascha Paeth - Guitars, Bass, Keys, Drums?Sander Gommans - Guitars ?Miro - Arrangements and Keys

Olaf Reitmeier - Acoustic Guitar

Robert Hunecke – Drums

Simon Oberender - Keys

Jorn Lande - Guest Lead Vocals on 'Scream It'

Somerville unveils the CD is the clip below: