Nemesea

Nemesea
Singer Manda Ophuis
Background information
Origin	Netherlands
Genres	Symphonic metal, Alternative metal
Years active	2002 – present
Labels	http://www.napalmrecords.com/
Website	nemesea.com
Members
Manda Ophuis Hendrik Jan de Jong Sonny Onderwater Frank van der Star Lasse Delbrugge
Past members
Chris Postma Martijn Pronk Berto Booijink Steven Bouma

Nemesea is a Dutch female-fronted Symphonic metal band with pop and rock influences, formed in 2002 in Groningen. Their musical style has been compared to that of After Forever^[1]

Biography

The band was founded by vocalist Manda Ophuis and guitar player Hendrik Jan de Jong in September 2002 in Groningen, The Netherlands. In April 2003 the band had their first performance as support act for After Forever, and remained that band's support for a year. They attracted record company interest and signed for small Dutch label Ebony Tears in November 2003. In November 2004 Nemesea released their debut album Mana (meaning 'the magical power of things, given by the gods'^{[citation needed]}), and they later toured the Netherlands and Belgium until December 2005. By this time they were well established in the European gothic/symphonic metal scene. For their second album, Nemesea had talks with some major record labels, but they later decided to sign up to the Dutch crowdsourcing website Sellaband. They were the first band to raise more than $50,000 from the fans, and the album, called In Control, was released on June 21, 2007.^[2][3] A distribution deal was made with Rough Trade Records to bring the new album to music stores in Benelux on October 26, 2007. Also the band signed a booking deal with Dutch agent AT Productions and found a new manager in David Arden, brother of Sharon Osbourne and former manager of James Brown.

The live album Pure Live @ P3 was released on September 7, 2009.

In July 2010, the band announced they were recording a new studio album,^[4] which they hope will be released in early 2011.^[5] The new song "Caught in the Middle" was posted on Youtube, and will appear on the new album. Other songs for the new album The Quiet Resistance are "The Quiet Resistance", "Stay With Me", "Afterlife", "Whenever", and "Rush".^{[citation needed]}

Members

• Manda Ophuis – vocals
• Hendrik Jan de Jong – guitar
• Sonny Onderwater – bass
• Frank van der Star - Drums (2011)
• Lasse Dellbrugge- keys (2009)

Former members

• Chris Postma – drums (2002–2005)
• Sander Zoer - drums (2005–2006)
• Martijn Pronk – guitar (2002–2007)
• Berto Booijink – keyboards (2002–2007)
• Steven Bouma – drums (2006–2011)

Discography

Studio albums

• Mana (2004)
• In Control (2007)
• The Quiet Resistance (2011)

^[6]

Live albums

• Pure: Live @ P3 (2009)

References

1. ^ Archaic-Magazine.com :: Mana :: Nemesea/
2. ^ John Tozzi (September 10, 2007). "Scoring Money from an Online Crowd". BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/sep2007/sb20070910_540342.htm?chan=smallbiz_smallbiz+index+page_top+stories. Retrieved 2007-10-07. 
3. ^ Rupert Jones (October 6, 2007). "Power to the fans - profits to the bands". The Guardian. http://money.guardian.co.uk/investments/alternativeinvesting/story/0,,2184623,00.html. Retrieved 2007-10-07. 
4. ^ Nemesea News
5. ^ twitter post
6. ^ Nemesea Reveals New Album "The Quiet Resistance" Details

External links

• Official website
• Nemesea at Myspace
• Nemesea at YouTube
• Nemesea at Sellaband
• Nemesea discography at MusicBrainz