Former VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Singer, Guitarist To Tie The Knot

January 29, 2008

Former VISIONS OF ATLANTIS singer Melissa Ferlaak has issued the following update:

"Well, after months and months of waiting for a fiancé visa, Wolfgang [former VISIONS OF ATLANTIS guitarist Wolfgang 'Wops' Koch] and I can finally announce we will be getting married on May 3, 2008 here in Minnesota in an intimate ceremony.

"He will be moving here at the beginning of March (I know, verrrrry fast, but we only get three months of this type of visa for him to come to the country and get married. (I could go into the whole details of it, but it's long, boring and frustrating even thinking about what we have had to go through for this.) But the waiting is over! And finally, we can see each other every day instead of having to wait months before getting to see each other for a week or so, like it has been for the last year and a half that we have been together. It is the most cruel fate to be placed so distant from your muse.

"So that's all! If you are in Minnesota, I guess you will be seeing a lot more of my 'boyfriend' Wolfgang around here! And we should be able to turn out songs a bit faster as well."

Ferlaak and Koch left VISIONS OF ATLANTIS late last year due to "musical differences." As a result, the band's previously announced participation in the upcoming KAMELOT European tour has been cancelled. Koch has since been replaced by the returning guitarist Werner Fiedler, who was responsible for much of the songwriting on the group's first two records.

VISIONS OF ATLANTIS's latest album, "Trinity", was released in May via Napalm Records. The CD was recorded at Dreamscape Studios and was mastered at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finland. The CD's cover artwork was created by Anthony Clarkson, who has previously worked with BLIND GUARDIAN, HYPOCRISY and EXODUS, among others.

Watch fan-filmed video footage of VISIONS OF ATLANTIS performing the song "Lost" on September 26, 2007 performance at The Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, California:

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