History Music / Delain

* Ronald Landa – guitars, backing vocals (2006–2009)

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Martijn
** TheLancer: Otto
** TheSmartGuy: Timo
** TheBigGuy: Joey
** TheChick: Charlotte

When you’re pretty and young\\

* YouAreNotAlone: "We Are the Others", title track of the group's third album. [[WordOfGod According to an interview with Charlotte]], after drawing inspiration from the case of Sophie Lancaster (a young British woman attacked and killed in a violent hate crime for expressing her gothic fashion), Charlotte said she wanted ''"a song about “we are the others” and a feeling of togetherness. On the one hand, being proud of whoever you are, whether you divert from the norm in whatever way you divert from the norm. But on the other hand, it is also kind of a song for “others”. We just wanted a song about acceptance"''.

* RefrainFromAssuming: On your first listen to "The Glory and the Scum," you'd be forgiven for thinking it was called "Monster."

Three years later, joining forces with singer Charlotte Wessels and signing a contract with Roadrunner Records, Martijn restarted Delain, envisioning it as a musical project featuring various guest musicians from symphonic metal bigwigs Music/{{Epica}}, Music/WithinTemptation, Music/{{Nightwish}}, and others. This vision came to bear fruit as ''Lucidity'', released in 2006 despite delays. The live band was then formed as Delain accepted offers to tour around the Netherlands and Europe, and has undergone frequent lineup changes since.

* [[Music/{{Tarot}} Marco]] [[Music/{{Nightwish}} Hietala]] – bass (2006), co-lead vocals (2006, 2009, 2014)

* SymphonicMetal: The band wanders between GothicMetal, PowerMetal, and occasionally ProgressiveMetal but is centered here. They're usually more on the synth end of the symphonic metal spectrum with the focus on the guitars rather than the keyboard backing, but songs like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJ1ma3I0Ag "Burning Bridges"]] would not be out of place on an Music/{{Epica}} or Music/{{Nightwish}} album.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: From a 1 ("Scarlet") to an 8 ("The Tragedy of the Commons", "Hands of Gold"). Usually hovers around 6 or 7.

* SocialMediaIsBad: "Generation Me" depicts an obsession with social media, targeting Website/{{Twitter}} and Website/{{Instagram}} in particular.

* Sander Zoer – drums (2006–2014)

* SocialMediaIsBad: "Generation Me" depicts an obsession with social media.

** "Lullaby" can be read as one of those, whith a sinking ship[[note]] No, not [[{{Shipping}} this one]] [[/note]] as a metaphor for ending relationship.

[[https://www.loudersound.com/news/delain-splinter-as-four-band-members-depart On 15 February 2021]], Martijn Westerholt announced on the band's Facebook page that the members would be going their separate ways. Delain will be continuing as his solo project.

* Charlotte Wessels - lead vocals (2005-present)
* Otto Schimmelpenninck van der Oije - bass, harsh vocals (2010-present)
* Timo Somers - guitars, backing vocals (2011-present)
* Joey de Boer - drums (2017-present)

* DissonantSerenity: The album cover for ''Apocalypse & Chill'' features a woman on a beach chair looking indifferently through her glasses [[https://img.discogs.com/9TI3u-IGbFJHm3n4m6SmdeTF3UE=/fit-in/600x537/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-14717994-1581097045-9641.jpeg.jpg while her surroundings are on fire]].

* DestructiveRomance: Oh boy, is it ever - whoever the protagonist of the various relationship-related songs is, you do ''not'' want to get on her bad side. Special mention goes to "No Compliance", "[[YourCheatingHeart Milk]] [[WomanScorned and]] [[BreakUpSong Honey]]," "[[{{Yandere}} I]] [[LoveHungry Want]] [[IfICantHaveYou You]]," and "[[SlapSlapKiss Hit Me]] [[LoveMartyr With Your Best Shot]]."

* RefrainFromAssuming: On your first listen to "The Glory and the Scum," you'd be forgiven for thinking it was called "Monster."

* DramaticThunder: Featured in "Lullaby."

* OneWomanWail: Charlotte lets out an incredibly '''epic''' one on "Masters of Destiny".

* SelfBackingVocalist: "No Compliance," most of ''Hunter's Moon'' and ''Apocalypse & Chill''. Charlotte sings with herself a lot.

*** Otto van der Oije, during live performances.

* SelfBackingVocalist: Charlotte sings with herself a lot. "No Compliance," "Masters Of Destiny," "Hunter's Moon," "This Silence Is Mine," "We Had Everything," "Burning Bridges," "Legions of the Lost," "The Greatest Escape" are examples.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: "Burning Bridges."
-->We held on to each other like\\
We held on to life\\
Now why\\
Would you send me out to sea\\
On this battered ship alone?\\
If this is what it seems\\
You're burning your bridges down

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: Timo starts taking on more prominent backing vocals, both clean and harsh, from Moonbathers onwards. He shares vocals with Charlotte on ''Apocalypse & Chill'''s "One Second".

* SelfBackingVocalist: Charlotte sings with herself a lot. "No Compliance," "Masters Of Destiny," "Hunter's Moon," "This Silence Is Mine," "We Had Everything," "Burning Bridges" are examples.

*** George Oosthoek (''Lucidity'', "Tell Me, Mechanist")
*** Marco Hietala (''April Rain'', ''The Human Contradiction'')

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Ever since Merel joined in 2015 it has been this.

* IfICantHaveYou: "I Want You" starts out seeming like a typical unrequited-love song; it gradually becomes clear the narrator is a StalkerWithACrush and in the end, implies that [[{{Yandere she murders her LoveInterest for rejecting her]].

* WeUsedToBeFriends: "Burning Bridges"

* SelfBackingVocalist: Charlotte sings with herself a lot. "No Compliance," "Masters Of Destiny," "Hunter's Moon," "Burning Bridges" are examples.

* HarshVocals: Usually not present. Exceptions include "Hands of Gold" (with Music/AlissaWhiteGluz growling the bridge) and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJ1ma3I0Ag "Burning Bridges"]] which includes a Music/{{Epica}}-esque roared line at the start of the bridge.

* SelfBackingVocalist: Charlotte sings with herself a lot. "No Compliance," "Masters Of Destiny," "Hunter's Moon" are examples.

* ArcSymbol: The [[AnimalMotif hummingbird]] that first appears on ''We Are the Others'' makes appearances on ''Interlude'', Lunar Prelude, and ''Moonbathers''.

** "Virtue and Vice," "Milk and Honey", "Where Is the Blood?". "Lullaby" can be read as one of those, whith a sinking ship[[note]] No, not [[{{Shipping}} this one]] [[/note]] as a metaphor for ending relationship.

* DesignStudentsOrgasm: The ''Hunter's Moon'' cover.

* [[DidNotGetTheGirl Did Not Get The Guy]]: "I Want You". He rejects her. [[{{Yandere}} She]] [[IfICantHaveYou kills him]].

* FollowYourHeart: "April Rain."
* GreenEyedMonster: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Invidia"]]. Goes right into IJustWantToBeYou territory.

* HeavyMithril: "The Gathering" is about, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well]], TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering. Also, [[WordOfGod Charlotte has stated point-blank]] that "Turn the Lights Out" is about [[ComicBook/TheSandman Death of the Endless]].

* HumansAreBastards: A recurring theme on ''The Human Contradiction'', especially on "Stardust" and "Tell Me, Mechanist". "The Tragedy of the Commons" has this vibe as well, as does "The Glory and the Scum".
* IfICantHaveYou: "I Want You."

* MoodWhiplash: The first minute of "Masters of Destiny" is this '''IN SPADES'''.
* NewTechnologyIsEvil: "Generation Me" has hints of this, specifically targeting social media.

* PrecisionFStrike: "Generation Me" and "Sing to Me".
* ProtestSong: "Your Body Is a Battleground" does...let's say ''not think highly'' of the medical-industrial complex.

* SelfBackingVocalist:
** On her version of "No Compliance," Charlotte does "chorus of one."
** On "Masters Of Destiny," the OneWomanWail and the chorus, both by Charlotte Wessels, can be heard at the same time.

* WeAllDieSomeday: "Danse Macabre" uses a variation:
-->Let the earth cover me\\

** "I Want You" might sound like one of their usual SillyLoveSongs at first, [[AntiLoveSong but as it goes on...]]