![]() ![]() So now I don't have the pressure of knowing people are waiting for me, and they don't have the inconvenience of working with someone who has a main band next to theirs."įans of Kamelot-flavoured symphonic metal locked into Ad Infinitum at first listen, as they offer up a similar brand of symphonic metal. It wouldn't have been possible for Rage Of Light to release anything this year, and I felt it was unfair to tell them, 'Sorry, you have to wait until 2022 or 2023.' At that point I decided it might be better if we went our separate ways. The guys were in a better place to do that and wanted to push forward, but I was buried in work with Ad Infinitum because we were preparing a new album. We decided to take things slow, possibly record a single or two and shoot some videos, but one year later Napalm asked if we were ready to record a new album. "When I was on tour with Rock Meets Classic (in March 2020) we had a call, and everyone was at a different place in their lives at the time. "Because of all the work with Ad Infinitum, we decided it was better for them to have someone who could really focus on Rage Of Light," she says. The resulting success was more than Melissa expected, and it signalled the end of her time with Rage Of Light Melissa released the solo single "I Am The Storm" in 2018, but this quickly evolved into a band dubbed Ad Infinitum, who unleashed their debut album, Chapter I: Monarchy, in 2020. Her true focus, however, was to write and shape her own music. Sure enough, along with Rage Of Light releasing their Napalm Records debut, Imploder, in 2019, Melissa was hired for guest vocal appearances on songs from Warkings, Feuerschwanz, Beneath My Sins, and was a guest vocalist the 2020 Rock Meets Classic tour through Germany (sadly cut short by a pandemic). Previously unknown trance / melodic death metal outfit Rage Of Light released a cover of the Amon Amarth classic "Twilight Of The Thunder God" independently, with an accompanying video, and her fate was sealed as someone to watch for in the future. Vocalist Melissa Bonny officially entered the professional metal scene in 2017 with a roar. ![]()
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