ARJEN LUCASSEN Unveils CD, Vinyl And Art Book Formats Of THE GENTLE STORM Debut Album; Video Available

Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon, Star One, Guilt Machine) and Anneke van Giersbergen (The Gathering, Devin Townsend Project) will release the debut album, The Diary, from their new band The Gentle Storm, on March 24th. They have checked in with the following update:

“We’ve just received our first shipment of the new album on CD and vinyl, together with the artbooks and T-shirts. In this little video Arjen shows you what we have to offer. I can tell you it looks amaaaazing, it really does!”

The Gentle Storm recently released a video for the new song “Heart Of Amsterdam”. Due to an ongoing dispute between YouTube and the GEMA – a performance rights organisation – some fans in Germany are unable to watch the video. The full length clip can be viewed by German fans and everyone else via this link to Muzu.tv. It will begin playing automatically.

Anneke: “The song is a tribute to the city of Amsterdam, the home town of the story’s leading character Susanne. Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a centre of shipping, shipbuilding, and trade. Amsterdam flourished, and a wonderful city was the result. We shot the video in the centre of Amsterdam. It was freezing cold and I couldn’t move my fingers anymore during the last shots, but it was all worth it. I love how the video turned out!”