Melissa Ferlaak received her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls and her Master’s degree from New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, both in Vocal Performance-Opera Emphasis. From 2001 through 2005, she performed around the United States, Canada and Mexico with Minnesota based symphonic/operatic metal band, AESMA DAEVA and performed on three CDs released worldwide.

In the Autumn of 2005 she was awarded a record contract with Napalm Records to sing with Austrian symphonic metal band, VISIONS OF ATLANTIS. To date, they have performed on the Romantic Darkness Tour in Germany and Festival Holledau, Dok’kem Open Air in the Netherlands, Summer Breeze Open Air in Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, Hörnerfest in Hamburg, Germany and Metal Female Voices Festival IV in Wieze, Belgium, Masters of Rock Festival in the Czech Republic. and an Asian Tour through China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, all with audience sizes ranging from 1,000 to 30,000. They released their third album (first with Ms. Ferlaak) entitled Trinity in May 2007 reaching the Top 50 in the German Trend Charts. Most recently, the group completed a 20-show tour through North America in September 2007. The band has graced the covers of Mindview Magazine, Crypt O Goths, Orkus, Sonic Seducer, Scream Magazine and Power Play UK, Rock Hard and Metal Hammer, along with United States magazine features in Hit Parader, Metal Maniacs, Zero Tolerance, Unrestrained!, Explicitly Intense, Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles, Hails and Horns and The Pit. Ms. Ferlaak left the band in 2007 to pursue her classical career more fully as well as begin her own music group in Minnesota. In 2008 and 2009, Ms. Ferlaak has served as a guest vocalist for WITHERING SOUL, DRACHEN, RISING DREAM, and, ADYTA. She gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Carmen AnnaRose on February 26, 2009.