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Sander Gommans
Sander Gommans (born 15 August 1978) is a Dutch musician and songwriter. He founded the symphonic metal band Apocalypse with Mark Jansen in 1995, which later changed its name to After Forever. He played guitar and performed the vocal grunting parts in the band. He managed the band and was the main writer of After Forever's music. Career After recording all guitars for the album ''Rise of the Warrior'' by Anna Phoebe, he began a project called HDK, which is signed to Season of Mist; HDK's debut album, '' System Overload'', was released on 23 February 2009. He is also the additional lead guitarist on ''Kiske/Somerville'', an album by the German singer, keyboard player and guitarist Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween) and the American singer-songwriter and vocal coach Amanda Somerville. In 2010, he co-wrote the album ''Scheepers'', a solo album of Primal Fear's lead vocalist Ralf Scheepers. Resulting from his partnership with Amanda Somerville on HDK and Kiske/Somerville, Sander beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Forever
After Forever was a Dutch symphonic metal band with strong progressive metal influences. The band relied on the use of both soprano vocals and death growls. In February 2009, it was announced that After Forever had disbanded. Singer Floor Jansen and keyboardist Joost van den Broek both collaborated again in ReVamp and Star One, before Jansen eventually joined Nightwish as lead singer in 2013. Former rhythm guitarist Mark Jansen founded Epica in 2002 after his departure from After Forever and, in 2010, founded MaYaN, which included former After Forever members Sander Gommans and Jack Driessen. Floor Jansen has appeared as a session or live vocalist for both Epica and MaYaN. History First years and ''Prison Of Desire'' (1995-2000) After Forever was originally assembled in 1995, under the name ''Apocalypse''. They were originally a death metal cover band with harsh male vocals. With the joining of vocalist Floor Jansen in 1997, their style and sound shifted towards symphonic goth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Season Of Mist
Season of Mist is an independent record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pagan metal, and death metal records, the label moved on to releasing albums of avant-garde metal, gothic metal and punk bands as well. The label has two offices, one in Marseille, France and one in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Music From the beginning, Season of Mist focused on releasing more extreme metal records by stylistically diverse bands like Oxiplegatz, Bethzaida and Kampfar. With the signing of Norwegian legends Mayhem in 1999, the label's profile clearly shifted towards black metal and attracted internationally renowned artists like Carpathian Forest, Rotting Christ, Arcturus, and Solefald, with the latter two representing a marked progressive and avant-garde side to Season of Mist. While staying close to its black metal roots w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remagine
''Remagine'' is the fourth studio album released by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. It was released on 8 September 2005 by Transmission Records and followed the 2004 concept album ''Invisible Circles''. It was the band's first album with keyboardist Joost van den Broek, and their last released under Transmission Records. Initially, the album was made available in three versions: a regular one, an SACD with three bonus songs in 5.1 surround sound and a special edition with a DVD containing a making-of documentary and a photo gallery. On 24 November 2015, Transmission Records reissued the album as a two-disc set containing the SACD bonus tracks, rare single edits, remixes and previously unreleased studio sessions. Although this edition included liner notes by former guitarist Sander Gommans, former lead singer Floor Jansen took to Instagram to denounce the label, claiming that she had never been made aware of the re-release. Track listing Personnel After Forever * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invisible Circles
''Invisible Circles'' is the third studio album by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. It was released on 25 March 2004, by the small Dutch label Transmission Records. It is After Forever's first full-length album since the dismissal of guitarist and composer Mark Jansen, whose musical tastes had strongly influenced the sound of their first work ''Prison of Desire'' (2000) and their successful second offering ''Decipher'' (2001). In this work After Forever choose a new musical direction, mostly revolving around elements of progressive metal instead of the gothic and symphonic metal of previous albums. The creative process for ''Invisible Circles'' took more than a year and required the use of three recording studios in the Netherlands and Germany. A long tour to support the album brought the band to some of the most important European rock festivals and to Central and South America. ''Invisible Circles'' is a concept album about the dynamics of quarrelsome families and psy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Play
An extended play record, usually referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single but fewer than an album or LP record.Official Charts Company , access-date=March 21, 2017 Contemporary EPs generally contain four or five tracks, and are considered "less expensive and time-consuming" for an artist to produce than an album. An EP originally referred to specific types of other than 78 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exordium (EP)
''Exordium'' is an EP by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever, released on 17 October 2003. Another version of this album was released in 2004, with a bonus DVD entitled ''Insights''. " The Evil That Men Do" is a cover of the Iron Maiden song, while "One Day I'll Fly Away" is a metal version of a ballad originally sung by Randy Crawford. This is the band's first recording with guitarist Bas Maas, who replaced Mark Jansen. ''Exordium'' is the first After Forever album to enter the Dutch Top 100 chart, where it remained for two weeks, peaking at #56. On 11 November 2016, an expanded remastered edition of ''Exordium'' containing previously unreleased studio sessions, single edits and an interview was released to digital download and streaming services. Physically, this edition was released on 2 December as the last disc on a three-disc reissue of the band's third studio album, '' Invisible Circles''. Track listing ''Insights'' ''Insights'' is the name given to the DV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decipher (After Forever Album)
''Decipher'' is the second album by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever, released on 27 December 2001. In this album, the band make use of live classical instruments and a complete choir to back up the soprano voice of lead singer Floor Jansen. Thrown in the mix are also a duet of soprano and tenor voices in "Imperfect Tenses" and the recording of the late Israeli PM Yizhak Rabin's voice during the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty signing ceremony in "Forlorn Hope". This is the last After Forever album with guitarist and founder Mark Jansen, who left the band soon after its release. In 2003, the album was reissued in a limited edition of 5,000 copies worldwide. The limited edition in digipack had an extended booklet, a sticker with new artwork and two live bonus tracks. It was again reissued in 2012 by the re-financed Transmission Records, this time as a two-disc set containing previously unreleased studio sessions, single edits and a handful of demo recordings. Track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prison Of Desire
''Prison of Desire'' is the debut album by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. It was released on 21 April 2000 by Transmission Records. The album contains the first four installments (three parts and a prologue) of ''The Embrace That Smothers'', a collection of songs by Mark Jansen which deals with the influence and distortion of religion in human society. This theme was carried over to the Epica albums ''The Phantom Agony'' and ''The Divine Conspiracy''. The final track, "Beyond Me", features a guest appearance of Sharon den Adel, lead singer in Within Temptation. The album was reissued in June 2008 by the re-financed Transmission Records, as a two-disc set containing previously unreleased studio sessions, instrumental/a cappella tracks, and a handful of demo recordings. Guitarist Sander Gommans has urged fans not to buy this re-release through the band's official forum. In 2021, it was elected by ''Metal Hammer'' as the 6th best symphonic metal album of all time. Tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floor Jansen
Floor Jansen (; born 21 February 1981) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. Jansen first became known as a member of symphonic metal band After Forever, standing as their lead vocalist from 1997, when she joined at age 16, to their disbanding in 2009. When After Forever disbanded, she formed ReVamp and has released two albums with them. In 2012 following the departure of their lead vocalist Anette Olzon, Nightwish brought in Jansen as a touring member until the end of their Imaginaerum World Tour. In 2013, they announced Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish. In 2018, she and Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad premiered their hard rock duo Northward. A frequent collaborator of Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Jansen is a member of his progressive metal supergroup Star One, and sang in the Ayreon albums '' Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serenades Of The Netherworld
''Serenades of the Netherworld'' is the second album released by Dutch guitarist Sander Gommans's project HDK (Hate, Death, Kill). "Revelation" and "Return from Tomorrow" were released as single tracks, while the entire album itself entered stores on 1 September 2014. Track listing Personnel ;HDK *Sander Gommans (ex–After Forever, Trillium, Kiske/Somerville) – guitars, bass, recording, producing *Amanda Somerville (Trillium, Avantasia, Kiske/Somerville) – female vocals *Geert Kroes (Dead Man's Curse, BlindSight) – clean male vocals, growls, cover artwork *Koen Herfst (Bagga Bownz, I Chaos, Dew–Scented, Armin van Buuren) – drums *Uri Dijk ( Textures) – keyboards ;Guests musicians *Mark Burnash – bass on tracks 2–4 *Paul Owsinski – lead guitar on track 8 *Stephen Pursey – guitar solos on track 2 *Erik van Ittersum (Insomnia, Ethereal) – keyboards on tracks 8 and 9 ;Production *Joost van den Broek ( Sun Caged, ex–After Forever After Forever was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alloy (Trillium Album)
''Alloy'' is the debut album by heavy metal act Trillium. It was released in 2011 by the Italian record label Frontiers Records in Europe. Track listing Personnel *Amanda Somerville - lead & backing vocals, keyboards, engineer *Sascha Paeth - guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, producer, engineer, mixing *Sander Gommans - guitars, bass, engineer * Miro - arrangements, keyboards, engineer *Olaf Reitmeier - acoustic guitars, engineer *Robert Hunecke-Rizzo - drums *Simon Oberender - keyboards, mastering *Jørn Lande Jørn Marumsrud Lande (born May 31, 1968) is a Norwegian hard rock and heavy metal singer and songwriter. He is known for his work with the bands Ark, Beyond Twilight, Millenium, Vagabond, The Snakes, and most notably with power metal band Ma ... - guest lead vocals on track 7 References External linksFrontiers Records official site 2011 debut albums Frontiers Records albums {{2010s-metal-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scheepers (album)
''Scheepers'' is the debut solo album from Ralf Scheepers, lead vocalist of the German heavy metal band Primal Fear. Track listing #"Locked in the Dungeon" - 4:08 #"Remission of Sin" - 4:09 #"Cyberfreak" - 3:45 #"The Fall" - 4:05 #"Doomsday" - 6:28 #"Saints of Rock" ''(Tyran' Pace cover)'' - 4:32 #" Before the Dawn" ''(Judas Priest cover)'' - 3:06 #"Back on the Track" - 4:40 #"Dynasty" - 3:57 #"The Pain of the Accused" - 6:18 #"Play with Fire" - 4:08 #"Compassion" - 3:16 Credits *Ralf Scheepers - Lead & Backing Vocals; Acoustic Guitar; Keyboards * Magnus Karlsson: Lead Guitars; Guitars; Banjo; Accordion; Keyboards *Sander Gommans: Lead Guitar, Guitars *Mat Sinner: Bass, Keyboards *Snowy Shaw: Drums ''Guest Appearances'': * Tim “Ripper” Owens: Lead Vocals on “Remission of Sin” *Kai Hansen; Mike Chlasciak; Alex Beyrodt; Victor Smolski Victor Dmitriyevich Smolski (russian: Виктор Дмитриевич Смольский, be, Віктар Дзмітрыевіч ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
