System Overload (album)
Appearance
System Overload | ||||
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Released | 23 February 2009 | |||
Studio | Excess Studio, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Eternia Studios, Reuver, The Netherlands Gate Studios, Wolfsburg, Germany | |||
Genre | Heavy metal, melodic death metal, thrash metal | |||
Length | 47:38 | |||
Label | Season of Mist | |||
Producer | Sander Gommans, Joost van den Broek, Hans Pieters, Arjen Lucassen, Amanda Somerville | |||
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AllMusic | [1] |
System Overload is the first album released by Dutch After Forever guitarist Sander Gommans's side project HDK (Hate, Death, Kill).[2] The music of this album is heavier and more extreme than the usual style of After Forever and Gommans created HDK in order to release the album by himself.[3] The album was released on 23 February 2009 on the Label Season of Mist.[4] 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
[edit]All music by Sander Gommans, 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
[edit]- HDK
- Sander Gommans - rhythm/solo/acoustic guitars, grunts/screams/whispers on tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 11
- Peter Vink – bass
- Ariën van Weesenbeek – 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
- Arjen Lucassen - guitar solo on track 9
- Marcel Coenen - guitar solo on track 10
- Bastiaan Kuiper - guitar solo on track 5
- Andre Matos - 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 Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum
- Jérôme Cros – artwork at Season of Mist Graphic Desk
- Andrea Beckers, Felix Scharf – photography
References
[edit]- ^ Prato, Greg. "HDK - System Overload review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
- ^ "HDK System Overload". HDK Official Site. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ AFTER FOREVER Guitarist Discusses HDK Project; Audio Available - Jan. 6, 2009 on www.roadrunnerrecords.com
- ^ HDK: "System Overload" - neues Album am 23. Februar on www.vampster.com