I was looking at several videos on youtube and I wonder I wonder, what happened to After Forever??? Their debut, Prison of Desire (released on 2000) came out, true it is, with a whole wave of new symphonic metal bands, and you know how waves are: A bunch of clones with different faces following the style of three or four role models that have a spirit of their own. One of those role models was After Forever.
Do note the swift changes between soprano and natural tone…sheer poetry!
They used the basis of gothic metal lines, sparkling a bit with a little bit of heavy metal and progressive trash sometimes shadowed in doom, always putting it all together with classical arrangements. Yes, we’ve seen that, but not in their style. They used to have a sound of their own, mixing elements in an ancient, very orchestral way, showing off the Floor Jansen’s marvelous voice.
Decipher, their second album, even better elaborated than first one, with the powerful Monolyth of Doubt and true art pieces as My Pledge of Allegiance 1, was a gift to symphonic metal audience. Pipe organs, violins, cellos, oboe, empowered by guitars, bass and drums as a true metal orchestra; always ancient,classical and dynamic.
They were so good!!!!
And then why….ooooh why they had to have “musical differences” and throw Mark Jansen out of the group? In his grief, he had to go out and make himself better with a new project, Epica, and the Invisible Circles from After Forever comes out with more heavy alternative issues and less art. They used to go in one song from one shape to another just in time, and now can´t seem to put together what looks like a metro stop remix of styles. Remagine is Nightwish’s unwanted son (featuring Susie 4 and a metal hammer version of Celine Dion)… why is she doing that with her soprano register???
Seriously, check this out:
Moderatto style riffs, anyone??
Even worse, has anyone slipped them a memorandum asking to play the same song again and again and again? Or switch on and off their “talent button”? It looks like a “War of the bands” try-out instead of a bonafide rock outfit:
Call me old fashion but I miss After Forever.
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August 21, 2008 at 5:47 am |
Yo, classy girl Emma Lirba… this is a good read.
Can you please do something about those idiots noisy and elvis?
August 26, 2008 at 8:37 pm |
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