''Afterwords '' is an album by the Dutch rock band The Gathering, released via

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on 25 October 2013. It is referred to as either a studio album or a remix album, containing remakes of five songs from ''

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'', but the band consider ''Afterwords'' more like an EP. Drummer Hans Rutten has stated, "We all see ''Disclosure'' as our last studio album, and ''Afterwords'' was more or less a ''Disclosure'' after-party... It's a mini album, maybe, but it's a long album. But that said, we don't see it as a full-length album of The Gathering, more as sort of an EP kind of thing." The record is the last album before the band went on hiatus and bassist

Marjolein Kooijman The Gathering is a Dutch rock band, founded in 1989 by brothers Hans and René Rutten and vocalist Bart Smits in Oss, North Brabant. The Gathering earliest releases were categorized as atmospheric doom metal with influences from extreme me ...

quit in 2014.

Song information

S.I.B.A.L.D. stands for "Sometimes it's better a little dusty". ''Areas'' is a cover of

synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...

band

New Musik New Musik were an English synthpop group active from 1977 to 1982. Led by Tony Mansfield, they achieved success in 1980 with the top 20 single " Living by Numbers" which was followed up with the top 40 hits "This World of Water", "Sanctuary" ...

from their 1981 album '' Anywhere''. The title track features

Bart Smits Bart Smits (born 17 March 1972 in Oss) is a Dutch heavy metal singer. He was the original singer in The Gathering, and he sang on their first album '' Always...'', released in 1992. The following year he left them to form Wish. After one full- ...

on vocals, in a clean singing style as opposed to his growling in the band's

death-doom Death-doom is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It combines the slow tempos and pessimistic or depressive mood of doom metal with the deep growling vocals and double kick drumming of death metal. The genre emerged in the late-1980s and gained ...

debut '' Always...''.

Reception

Track listing

Personnel

The Gathering

Silje Wergeland Silje Wergeland (born 9 November 1974) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and pianist. She is best known as the current lead vocalist of the Dutch progressive/alternative rock band The Gathering (since 2009). She was also the frontwoman of Norwe ...

: vocals, lyrics (except track 4), piano (on track 8) *

René Rutten René Rutten (born 2 July 1972 in Nijmegen, Gelderland) is a Dutch guitarist for The Gathering. He founded the band with his brother Hans in 1989, and together they released eleven studio albums, four live albums, and four EPs. His latest ...

: guitar, bass (on tracks 2, 3, 4, 6), mixing, recording, engineer, music (on tracks 1, 2, 6, 8), producer *

: bass (on tracks 1, 8, 9), guitar (on track 8) *Hans Rutten : drums *Frank Boeijen : keyboards, mixing, recording, engineer, music (on track 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), vocals (on track 3)

Guest musicians

*Noel Hofman: trumpet on tracks 1 and 9 *

: vocals and lyrics on track 4 *Jakob Johannessen: speech on track 9

Production

*Martijn Busink: design *Carlos Manuel Vergara Rivera: illustration *Paul Matthijs Lombert: mastering *

Tony Mansfield Tony Mansfield (born 19 January 1955) is an English songwriter, musician and record producer. Early work Mansfield was born in Wimbledon, London, and became best known as the main songwriter/producer for New Musik, a synthpop band that perfo ...

: music and lyrics on track 3 *Gema Pérez: photography

References

External links

''Afterwords''
on thegathering.bandcamp.com {{Authority control The Gathering (band) albums 2013 albums