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Remagine is the fourth studio album released by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. It was released on 8 September 2005 by Transmission Records and followed the 2004 concept album Invisible Circles. It was the band's first album with keyboardist Joost van den Broek, and their last released under Transmission Records.
Initially, the album was made available in three versions: a regular one, an SACD with three bonus songs in 5.1 surround sound and a special edition with a DVD containing a making-of documentary and a photo gallery. On 24 November 2015, Transmission Records reissued the album as a two-disc set containing the SACD bonus tracks, rare single edits, remixes and previously unreleased studio sessions. Although this edition included liner notes by former guitarist Sander Gommans, former lead singer Floor Jansen took to Instagram to denounce the label, claiming that she had never been made aware of the re-release.[2]
Track listing
All lyrics are written by Floor Jansen, except where noted; all music is composed by After Forever, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Enter" |
| 1:06 | |
| 2. | "Come" | 5:02 | ||
| 3. | "Boundaries Are Open" |
| 3:44 | |
| 4. | "Living Shields" | 4:11 | ||
| 5. | "Being Everyone" | 3:37 | ||
| 6. | "Attendance" | 3:27 | ||
| 7. | "Free of Doubt" | 4:40 | ||
| 8. | "Only Everything" | 6:33 | ||
| 9. | "Strong" |
| 3:38 | |
| 10. | "Face Your Demons" | 4:57 | ||
| 11. | "No Control" | 3:17 | ||
| 12. | "Forever" |
| 5:10 | |
| Total length: | 49:22 | |||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13. | "Taste the Day" |
| 2:54 | |
| 14. | "Live and Learn" |
| 4:16 | |
| 15. | "Strong" (piano version) | 3:40 | ||
| Total length: | 60:12 | |||
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 13. | "Being Everyone" (single version) | 3:09 |
| 14. | "Taste the Day (Remagine)" | 2:55 |
| 15. | "Being Everyone" (acoustic version) | 3:23 |
| 16. | "Face Your Demons" (alternative version featuring Marko Hietala) | 4:59 |
| 17. | "Live and Learn" | 4:24 |
| 18. | "Strong" (piano version) | 3:41 |
| Total length: | 71:55 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Enter" (session version) | 1:06 |
| 2. | "Come" (session version) | 5:06 |
| 3. | "Being Everyone" (session version) | 3:41 |
| 4. | "Forever" (session version) | 5:21 |
| 5. | "Live and Learn (The Key Part 2)" (session version) | 4:42 |
| 6. | "Boundaries Are Open" (session version) | 3:46 |
| 7. | "Free of Doubt" (session version) | 4:40 |
| 8. | "Taste the Day (Remagine)" (session version) | 3:00 |
| 9. | "Attendance" (session version) | 3:26 |
| 10. | "Only Everything" (session version) | 6:34 |
| 11. | "No Control" (session version) | 3:17 |
| 12. | "Living Shields" (session version) | 4:10 |
| 13. | "Strong" (session version) | 3:40 |
| 14. | "Face Your Demons" (session version) | 4:57 |
| 15. | "Two Sides" (alternative version) | 3:17 |
| 16. | "Boundaries Are Open" (single version) | 3:30 |
| 17. | "Attendance" (industrial remix) | 3:04 |
| Total length: | 67:17 | |
Personnel
Band members
- Floor Jansen - vocals, soprano vocals in the choir
- Sander Gommans - electric and acoustic guitars, grunts, engineer, producer
- Bas Maas - electric guitars, clean male vocals
- Luuk van Gerven - bass guitar
- Joost van den Broek - synthesizers, piano, orchestra and choir arrangements, engineer, producer
- André Borgman - drums
Additional musicians
- Thomas Glöckner, Gregor Dierck, Benjamin Spillner - violins
- Swantje Tessmann, Marisy Stumpf, Thomas Rühl - violas
- Saskia Ogilvie, Jörn Kellerman - cellos
- Rannveig Sif Sigurdardottir - mezzo-soprano
- Amanda Somerville - alto, vocal coach, vocal producer
- Previn Moore - bass and tenor
Production
- Hans Pieters - engineer, producer
- Andreas Grotenhoff, Alfred Meinstedt - engineers, producers for the piano tracks
- Sascha Paeth, Philip Colodetti - vocal producers, engineers, mixing
- Miro, Olaf Reitmeier - engineers for the orchestral tracks
- Peter van 't Riet - mastering
References
- ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "After Forever Remagine review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
- ^ Jansen, Floor (23 April 2016). "Floor Jansen's Instagram profile post: "Just found out this exists....I had no idea. I cannot tell you how horribly screwed over and defenseless this make me, one of the musicians…"". Instagram. Archived from the original on 21 September 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2020.