Dutch symphonic rock outfit DELAIN are set to release their ‘April Rain’ album through Roadrunner Records on 25th January 2010.

The brainchild of keyboardsman, Martijn Westerholt (brother of Within Temptation’s guitarist Robert Westerholt), DELAIN began as a musical collective of guest musicians, but demand for live shows meant that a solid band had to be put together. As a result, DELAIN are now a ‘real band’, comprising Westerholt on keys, Ronald Landa on guitar, Rob Van Der Loo on bass, Sander Zoer on drums and the band are fronted by the fiery-tressed Charlotte Wessels.

To promote April Rain, Delain will be embarking on a massive tour that includes UK dates in December. It is hard to imagine that only a few years ago Martijn Westerholt was forced to leave Within Temptation because Pfeiffer’s disease made it impossible for him to tour. “It may sound like a cliché, but it’s the music that really gives me a massive amount of energy” he says. “Touring still is quite challenging for me, but at the same time I really get a health kick out of it, so over the coming months I’d love to play as many places as possible, especially those where Delain has not played before.”

Meantime, the band is already working on their next album, before ‘April Rain’ is even out of the starting gates! Westerholt says “The moment we were done with this one, we all started talking about the next! We have only just started as a band and at this point in our career there is a constant flow of ideas that we want to explore. We don’t want that source to dry up, so the writing continues. If it were up to me, Delain will be broadening all musical boundaries and we’re curious to see how far this band can take us.”