HDK PROJECT FINISHED!!!



Hello everybody,

first of all, again, I'd like to mention that I really appreciate your great support the past weeks! I know the break of After Forever was a surprise and disappointment for many of you, but the way you deal with that is simply amazing!

This has given me, and also the rest of the bandmembers, a lot of energy! It always sucks when you have to quit with something you put all your efforts in, but it helps a lot if people react respectful, and that's what you did! Like I mentioned, this is a possibility for all After Forever members to explore their individual talents, and already some really interesting projects have started!



Obviously, this is a blog about my HDK project, that I started already 3 years ago;-) Yesterday, Joost (van den Broek/keys After Forever) and I finally finished the mix of the album (in my own Eternia Studios), wich will be called SYSTEM OVERLOAD.

Mixing the album wasn't easy, since the songs have all kinds of vocals and styles, but the main goal was the make an agressive project with more dynamics than the hardcore thrash/death/heavy metal bands. Don't get me wrong, I love the common extreme metalstyles, but I thought it would be cool to give it a different approach. Due to the awesome singers and instrumentalists who have contributed, I can honestly say this has become the album I was hoping for with lots of brutal moments but still enough melody and emotion.

I'd especially like to thank Amanda Somerville, Peter Vink, Joost van den Broek and my friend John Holterman who constantly gave me advice and support in finishing HDK, without their help and of course the talents of the people I worked with, I'm sure it would have taken even longer:-) I'd also like to thank the people over here in myspace who always showed their interest in this, you rule!

Now it's time to definately find a label, create the album artwork and RELEASE these lullabies:-)

Next time, I'll give you the definite list of people who contributed and in which song, but I can already tell you that Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon/Star One) played an incredibly cool solo on one of the songs!!! That's not all though, more info about some other Dutch solomonsters later!

I think that the After Forever fans can also enjoy this record, it's certainly different but due to the collaboration with Amanda Somerville, who wrote the lyrics/lot of the vocallines AND the only female singer on the project, the vox play a very important role in the project! The topics of those lyrics are very important to me, and I'll be giving the songtitles and a describtion of what they're about soon!

We'll stay in touch, more news and soundclips soon, in the meantime: Keep the After Forever spirit alive!!!

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HDK features contributions from the following musicians:

Amanda Somerville: Vocals
André Matos (ex-ANGRA, SHAAMAN, VIRGO): Vocals
Ariën van Weesenbeek (GOD DETHRONED): Drums
Joost van den Broek (SUN CAGED, AFTER FOREVER): Keyboards
Jos Severens (SUSTAIN): Vocals
Patrick Savelkoul (CALLENISH CIRCLE): Vocals
Paul Niessen (I WITNESS): Vocals
Peter Vink: Bass
Sander Gommans: Guitar, Vocals

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