''System Overload'' is the first album released by Dutch

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guitarist

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 ...

's side project HDK (Hate, Death, Kill). The music of this album is heavier and more extreme than the usual style of

and Gommans created HDK in order to release the album by himself. The album was released on 23 February 2009 on the Label Season of Mist.HDK: "System Overload" - neues Album am 23. Februar
on www.vampster.com The many guest musicians involved in the making of this album produced and recorded their parts separately in various recording studios, following basic tracks provided by Gommans.

Track listing

All music by

, all lyrics by Amanda Somerville. #"System Overload" – 3:02 #"Request" – 4:33 #"Let Go" – 3:33 #"Terrorist" – 4:19 #"Pedestal" – 5:23 #"On Hold" – 3:23 #"Breakdown" – 5:06 #"March" – 4:04 #"Perfect" – 5:14 #"Fight or Flight" – 4:06 #"Fine Lines" – 4:55

Personnel

;HDK *

- rhythm/solo/acoustic guitars, grunts/screams/whispers on tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 11 *Peter Vink – bass *

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– drums ;Guests musicians * Amanda Somerville – female vocals/whispers on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10 *Joost van den Broek – additional keyboards on tracks 7 and 9, lead keyboards on tracks 5 and 11 *

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- guitar solo on track 9 *Marcel Coenen - guitar solo on track 10 *Bastiaan Kuiper - guitar solo on track 5 *

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- clean vocals on tracks 2 and 11 *Jos Severens - additional clean vocals on tracks 1, 4, 9, 10 and 11 *Patrick Savelkoul - grunts/screams on tracks 1, 6 and 10 *Mike Scheijen - screams on tracks 4, 8 and 11 *Paul Niessen - rap vocals on tracks 5, 7 and 11, artwork ;Production *Sander Gommans - producer, engineer, mixing *Amanda Somerville - vocal producer *Joost van den Broek - producer and engineer for keyboards and drums recordings, mixing *Hans Pieters – producer and engineer for drums recording *Arjen Lucassen – producer and engineer for bass recording and guitar solo on track 9 *Marcel Coenen – engineer for guitar solo on track 10 *Darius van Helfterenn – mastering at

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, Hilversum *Jérôme Cros – artwork at Season of Mist Graphic Desk *Andrea Beckers, Felix Scharf – photography

References

{{Authority control 2009 debut albums HDK (band) albums Season of Mist albums