Sander Gommans Discography of CDs

Sander Gommans CD discography Personnel: Amanda Somerville (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); Sascha Paeth (guitars, keyboards, drums); Sander Gommans (guitars); Olaf Reitmeier (acoustic ...

Sander Gommans songs HDK's 2009 offering, the appropriately titled SYSTEM OVERLOAD, features headbanging fury of the highest order. Everything is cranked to ten throughout; however, with the vocals often veering off into melodic territory, SYSTEM OVERLOAD cannot be considered a true extreme metal release (although their full name, Hate Death Kill, has "extreme metal" written all over it). A side project for Dutch goth metallists After Forever guitarist ...

Sander Gommans music CDs Dutch symphonic metal act After Forever's 2001 album includes "Ex Cathedra." The import limited pressing reissue from 2003 features 2 bonus tracks. After Forever's second album, 2001's Decipher, saw the Dutch sextet making great strides toward developing a distinctive and personal sound, and it vaulted them to the very forefront of Europe's operatic metal scene to boot. Sounding like a distant cousin of "Carmina Burana," the symphonic ...

Sander Gommans CD discography Dutch sextet After Forever seemed to come out of nowhere in the year 2000, their two fine albums, Prison of Desire and Decipher, ably exploring and even redefining the extent to which the whole operatic/symphonic metal subgenre could be developed. But a series of internal issues and personnel changes temporarily derailed the group's incredible momentum, forcing them to fill the three-year void leading up their ...

Sander Gommans albums Recording information: Soundsuite Studio, Tristania, Green Carnation (04/2005-05/2005). Arranger: Terje Refsnes. Personnel: John Amore, Floor Jansen, Sander Gommans (vocals); David Amore (drums). Audio Mixer: Terje Refsnes.

Sander Gommans discography After Forever once again went the concept album route with their third full-length effort, 2004's Invisible Circles. Only this time, the Dutch gothic-operatic-death-power-prog metal band (yes, all that!) arguably placed as much emphasis on their lyrics (discussing a young girl's coming of age tale in all matters of faith, love, loneliness, and even technology) as they did the music. Almost too much, some might argue, since the challenges of making sense of such an overwrought story line and numerous characters often distracted listeners from the band's concurrent attempts to uncork the same sort of complex yet fluidly composed prog epics heard on prior efforts. To wit: certain songs, like excellent first single "Between Love and Fire" and the conversely tepid "Blind Pain" actually break down for lengthy bits of dialogue; while special guests like Aina and Ayeron siren Amanda Somerville and Rhapsody ...