In the year After Forever exists ten years, the fifth self-titled album by the Dutch gothic metal group is released. It is their first CD on Nuclear Blast, a very large metal label. Because After Forever is not only popular in the Netherlands. The group has a large following worldwide, so that in 2005 and 2006, for example, South America (including Mexico, Argentina and Brazil) was visited. All the
… familiar gothic metal elements can be heard on this CD: the hard metal guitars, influences from classical music and the interaction between deep male grunts and (classical) female vocals. The genre seems to be so bound by strict, fixed rules that these should never be broken, at most a little deeper. And that's what After Forever does: this time with the help of The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The listener can therefore count on a decent portion of bombast, which comes to a head in songs such as Withering Time. (IV)more
