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symphonic metal band

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 Jans ...

, 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

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. Thrown in the mix are also a duet of soprano and tenor voices in "Imperfect Tenses" and the recording of the late Israeli PM

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's voice during the 1994

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signing ceremony in "Forlorn Hope". This is the last After Forever album with guitarist and founder

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, 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

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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 listing

Personnel

After Forever *

– vocals *

– guitars, grunts *

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 ...

– guitars * Luuk van Gerven – bass guitar * Lando van Gils – keyboards * André Borgman – drums, acoustic guitars Production * Stephen van Haestregt – production, engineer * Oscar Holleman – additional production, mixing * Hans van Vuuren – executive producer, coordination and research * Peter van 't Riet – mastering Additional musicians * Cees' Kieboom – piano, keyboards * Ebred Reijen – solo violin * Noemi Bodden – violin * Janine Baller – viola * Carla Schrijner – violoncello * Roxanne Steffen – double bass * Irma Kort – oboe on "Intrinsic" and "My Pledge of Allegiance #1" * Jack Pisters – sitar on "My Pledge of Allegiance #2" * Rein Kolpa – tenor vocals on "Imperfect Tenses" * Hans Cassa – choral bass vocals * Caspar de Jonge – choral tenor vocals * Marga Okhuizen – choral alto vocals * Ellen Bakker – choral soprano vocals *

Damian Wilson Damian Wilson (born 11 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Wilson works in the progressive metal genre and was the lead singer of Headspace and Threshold. He sang and toured with bands and projects for Star One, Ayre ...

– vocals on "Imperfect Tenses" (''The Album'' bonus track version) and "Who Wants to Live Forever" *

Arjen Anthony Lucassen Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born 3 April 1960) is a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and record producer best known for his long-running progressive metal/ rock opera project Ayreon. Lucassen started his career in 1980 as t ...

– guitar and keyboards on "Who Wants to Live Forever", all instruments on "Who Wants to Live Forever" (session version)

References

{{Authority control 2001 albums After Forever albums Transmission (record label) albums