Niels Duffhuës (born 8 January 1973 in Oss) is a Dutch

multi-instrumentalist A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency. Also known as doubling, the practice allows greater ensemble flexibility and more efficient employment of musicians, where ...

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and

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. From 1993 to 1994 he was the

vocalist Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

and

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

ist in the then

Doom metal Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres.K. Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' ...

band The Gathering, and he played on their album ''

Almost a Dance ''Almost a Dance'' is the second studio album by the Dutch doom metal band The Gathering, released in 1993 on Foundation 2000 Records. Tom Holkenberg, one of the producers, later became better known as the electronic musician Junkie XL. On th ...

'', released in 1993. From 1997 to 1998, he played drums in U-Charger. In 1998 he founded the

experimental rock Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with ...

band Enos, and he recorded the album ''Tremolo'' with them, before they split in 2001. From 2000 to 2002 he was also a member of Blimey!. After that he started a solo career, and he released several albums. He released ''The Village'' in 2018.

Discography

* The Gathering - ''

'' (1993) *Enos - ''Tremolo'' (2000)

Solo albums

*''Piranesi's Rome'' (2001) *''Jacky the Stripper'' (2002) *''Harem'' (2005) *''Man on Fire'' (2007) *''Songs of Mystery'' (2009) *''Among the Ruins'' (2011) *''There's a Storm coming'' (2014) *''The Village'' (2018)

External links

Official websiteThe Gathering official website
1973 births Living people Dutch heavy metal singers Dutch multi-instrumentalists People from Oss 21st-century Dutch male singers 21st-century Dutch singers {{netherlands-singer-stub