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Octavia Sperati , formerly known as Octavia , is a gothic metal ___MASK49___ from Bergen , Norway . Noord Brabant , also unofficially called Brabant , is a province in the south of the Netherlands . It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north , Limburg to the east , Zeeland to the west , and the Belgian provinces of Antwerp and Limburg to the south . The northern border follows the Meuse ( Maas ) river westward to its mouth in the Hollands Diep strait , part of the Rhine  Meuse  Scheldt delta . History . The Duchy of Brabant was a state of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183 or 1190 . It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries , part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482 , until it was split up after the Dutch revolt . After the War of Independence , Catholics in the Southern Netherlands were systematically and officially discriminated against by the Northern Protestant government until the second half of the 20th century , which had a ___MASK60___ influence on the economic and cultural development of the southern part of the Netherlands . Present - day North Brabant ( Staats - Brabant ) was adjudicated to the Generality Lands of the Dutch Republic according to the 1648 Peace of Westphalia , while the reduced duchy remained in existence with the Southern Netherlands until it was conquered by French Revolutionary forces in 1794 . Marjolein Kooijman ( born May 3 , 1980 in ' s - Hertogenbosch ) is a Dutch bass player . She was a member of The Gathering from 2004 to 2014 and worked on four studio albums , Home , The West Pole , Disclosure , and Afterwords . Marcela Alejandra Bovio García ( born October 17 , 1979 in Monterrey , Nuevo León ) is a Mexican soprano ___MASK85___ , songwriter and violinist . She was one of the founding members of the Mexican ___MASK49___ Elfonía , she responded to a " casting call " of sorts for relatively unknown singers to be featured on Arjen Lucassen ' s Ayreon album " The Human Equation " where she landed the part of " Wife ". She also sang on the bonus disc of the re - release of the first Ayreon album " The Final Experiment ". Later , she was picked as the lead ___MASK85___ of another Lucassen project , Stream of Passion ( in which she also plays the violin , one of the defining sounds of the ___MASK49___ ) who have released four full - length albums ; " Embrace the Storm ", " The Flame Within ", " Darker Days " and " A War of Our Own ", as well as a live album , " Live in the Real World ". They amicably disbanded in December 2016 . The West Pole is the ninth studio album by The Gathering . It is the first album to feature the new ___MASK17___ Silje Wergeland , previous front woman of Octavia Sperati . This album also includes two guest singers , Dutch Anne van den Hoogen and Mexican Marcela Bovio ( Stream of Passion ), as well as other guest musicians . Music videos were made of the songs " All You Are " and " No Bird Call ". A municipality is usually a single urban administrative division having corporate status and powers of self - government or jurisdiction as granted by national and state laws , to which it is subordinate . It is to be distinguished from the county , which may encompass rural territory and / or numerous small communities such as towns , villages and hamlets . The term " municipality " may also mean the governing or ruling body of a given municipality . A municipality is a ___MASK90___ - purpose administrative subdivision , as opposed to a special - purpose district . The term is derived from French " municipalité " and Latin " municipalis ". Stream of Passion was a Dutch progressive metal ___MASK49___ with symphonic , latin and gothic influences founded by ___MASK19___ and composer Arjen Anthony Lucassen and Mexican singer , violinist , and songwriter Marcela Bovio . The Netherlands is the main constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands . It is a densely populated country located in Western Europe with three island territories in the Caribbean . The European part of the Netherlands borders Germany to the east , Belgium to the south , and the North Sea to the northwest , sharing maritime borders with Belgium , the ___MASK80___ , and Germany . The largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam , Rotterdam , The Hague and Utrecht . Amsterdam is the country ' s capital , while The Hague holds the Dutch seat of government and parliament . The name " Holland " is used to refer informally to the whole of the country of the Netherlands . ' s - Hertogenbosch ( literally " The ___MASK47___ ' s Forest " in English , and historically in French : Bois - le - Duc ), colloquially known as Den Bosch ( literally " The Forest " in English ), is a city and municipality in the southern Netherlands . It is the capital of the province of North Brabant . Silje Wergeland ( born November 9 , 1974 in Bergen , Norway ) is a Norwegian ___MASK85___ , songwriter and pianist . She is best known as the current the lead vocalist of the Dutch progressive / alternative rock ___MASK49___ The Gathering since 2009 . She was also the frontwoman of Norwegian doom / gothic metal ___MASK49___ Octavia Sperati .