"AMENRA ARE LIKE MY BIG BROTHERS"

Caro Tanghe, from fellow Flemish band Oathbreaker, explains how she ended up singing on De Doorn

When did you first meet Amenra?

“I don’t remember, but I definitely see them as being like my big brothers. We share a bandmember, Lennart [Bossu, who plays guitar in both Amenra and Oathbreaker], we’ve toured together around the world – they gave us great opportunities. We all became really close friends.”

Have you sung with them before?

“When I was around 15 or 16, I sang with Amenra at a show in Kortrijk [in Belgium] where Colin was doing a body suspension. That was the first time I sang during an Amenra show. It was a very intense experience! Then over the years when we were on tour together I would sometimes go onstage and sing a song with them, as some of their songs have female vocals.”

How did you get involved with De Doorn?

“Colin and Lennart flew over to the States [where Caro now lives] to do some work on De Doorn and they asked me if I wanted to maybe do some vocals on a song. Obviously I was down to do it. I really missed them and I hadn’t been home in a while. I guess after the first session, Colin and Lennart were like, ‘Damn this sounds really good, I think you could be an asset in some other songs too.’ It kind of organically happened. Maybe they had a plan and didn’t tell me! Ha ha! But I was all about it – it felt really good.”

What was it like singing in Flemish?

“It being in our mother tongue was very different for me. I don’t speak it much anymore, and those words really hit close to my heart. We’re always so aware when we speak Flemish, because not many people speak it, and we feel like we have to adapt and adjust to other people’s languages. Sometimes you feel like you can’t fully express the words you’re wanting to say. If you say it in your own language, it just hits closer to home.”