EPICA Crush Rumours Of Vocalist SIMONE SIMONS Leaving Band To Join NIGHTWISH
November 17, 2006, 17 years ago
Online "news" sources have been spreading rumours that EPICA vocalist Simone Simons has been in talks with NIGHTWISH about joining the band. Epica has addressed the issue via their official website with the following statement:
"The last few months there have been a lot of rumours about Simone, implying she would leave Epica to join Nightwish as their new vocalist. With this rumour being published in a Finnish celebrity gossip magazine we are again getting a lot of questions whether or not this is true, so once again: Simone is not in contact with Nightwish nor their management and will not be leaving Epica. Don't believe everything you read, specially not in gossip magazines.Oh and by the way, we are still looking for a new drummer. For more info contact info@epica.nl."
BW&BK; can confirm that Epica's statement is not a whitewash, as we recently met up with backing vocalist Amanda Somerville, who began working on pre-production for the next Epica album at the beginning of the month at Gate Studios in Wolfsburg, Germany. According to Somerville work on the album is due to continue in January.
