Source: Bravewords.com
Vocalist Amanda Somerville (TRILLIUM, AVANTASIA) has checked in with the following:
“Today we said goodbye to our wonderful friend. To forever keep him in our hearts as the joyful, talented soul we all knew and loved, here’s this memorial video of our Simonovsky.”
Simon Oberender – Trillium’s live keyboardist – appeared on several albums, including AVANTASIA’s 2010 releases The Wicked Symphony and Angel of Babylon, EDGUY’s Age of the Joker (2011), EPICA’s Requiem for the Indifferent’(2012), RHAPSODY OF FIRE’s The Frozen Tears of Angels (2010) and KAMELOT’s Silverthorn, which will be released next month.
As an engineeer, Oberender worked on albums by Avantasia, Edguy, Epica, Mayan and others.
Oberender was a part of Trillium’s live line-up this past spring for the band’s European tour supporting DELAIN with HALCYON WAY. He was due to hit the road with Trillium again this fall supporting MAGNUM in the UK.









