I have written about the Dutch Gothic scene before, they brought some great singers to our musical footprint. Like Within Temptation, the conquered the world with their massive songs and stage presence....

The Gathering

One of the first bands to follow a Gothic movement in the Netherlands was The Gathering with volcalist Anneke van Giersbergen.

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She still sings in different projects but her breaktrough was with The Gathering. Although it wasn't Gothic 100% , some metal elements in it, they were quiet populair in Holland and in asia. one of their biggest hits is "Strange machines"

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The song has a mystic vibe with those heavy riffs on guitar.

You can say that The Gathering is one of the first bands who opened doors for this type of music...Which later on some other came trough :)

Anneke is still going strong, she participate in the dutch show "Beste zangers" Which means Best singers. 2 seasons back there was Floor Jansen with the same show and it brought her more recognition in the mainstream musical public..

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Within Temptation

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Sharon den Adel is the vocalist of one of Holland's most famous bands "Within Temptation". The trademark of Within Tempation (actually for a lot of Gothic singers) are the dresses Sharon wears and of the bombastic music course.

One of their biggest hits in the charts was certainly "Ice Queen"

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The Netherlands was or is too small for this band. We have a large and wide audience, but in continents such as Asia the audience and fans of this music are many times larger. As in Germany too, by the way.

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After forever

After forever is the first band of which Floor Jansen was in the spotlights. She joined the band when the band was already a long time busy with trying to get recognition but with only deathmetal it didn't work out that good.

When Floor sang in After Forever she was asked to become the vocalist of NightWish (which is not Dutch). From there on she (and the band) got famous in the circle of metal / Gothic with a big fanbase.

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For Floor her particpating in the show "The Best Singers" is I think such a good move for her but also for the things she does.NightWhish has been shown many times during the show and Floor sings a lot of different repetoire.

Epcia

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Simone Simons is the front-woman of the Dutch band Epica. It's a classical / Gothic band whith (also) a great fanbase. In fact a lot of fans visit the concerts of all bands in this post :)
I do like the music of Epica but I have a little less with the grunting of the male singer.

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The band has a long trackrecord in albums, they have release 13 albums already.

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Have a great evening,

Peter