Meet Timo Renaissance Somers, Man

enjoying one of the busiest years in the guitar galaxy, but you’d be forgiven for not realizing it. Over the course of a career that stretches back to the early 2000s, he’s made a name for himself as a consummate guitarist in the Dutch symphonic metal band Delain. In January he made a stop in Anaheim, California, to demo several brands (Napalm Records) and festival dates are on the horizon. That’d be enough to keep most musicians busy, but Somers also has a long-in-the-works solo album on his mind and a new album from Arrow Haze, a band he describes as “modern metal, like Periphery meets Pink Floyd.”