After Forever – Energize Me

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Energize me with a simple touch or with an open heart
Energize me, fire up this flame that’s burning between us

It’s not a fantasy, another mystery
It’s just what I can feel, it’ something I can see
It’s like a memory, an inner melody
It’s just what we all know, and we all hear

I was blind, I was closed down
Could not feel or set it free

Energize me with a simple touch or with an open heart
Energize me, fire up this flame that’s burning between us

It lies in everyone this whirling energy
It’s all around us too, electrifying you
So dare to set it free, this virtue is the key
To something we all know and we all use

I can feel it’s inside me
Open up enlighten me!

Energize me with a simple touch or with an open heart
Energize me, fire up this flame that’s burning between us
Energize me with a simple smile, open up your mind
Energize me, activate the light that’s given and taken

Can you believe in the power that’s burning between us?
Would you believe if you open up your mind, open up your heart

Energize me with a simple touch or with an open heart
Energize me, fire up this flame that’s burning between us
Energize me with a simple smile, open up your mind
Energize me, fire up this fire that’s burning forever
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After Forever was a Dutch symphonic metal band with strong progressive metal influences. The band relied on the use of both soprano vocals and death growls.

In February 2009, it was announced that After Forever had disbanded. Singer Floor Jansen and keyboardist Joost van den Broek both collaborated again in ReVamp and Star One, before Jansen eventually joined Nightwish as lead singer in 2013. Former rhythm guitarist Mark Jansen founded Epica in 2002 after his departure from After Forever and, in 2010, founded MaYaN, which included former After Forever members Sander Gommans and Jack Driessen. Floor Jansen has appeared as a session or live vocalist for both Epica and MaYaN.

After Forever was originally assembled in 1995, under the name Apocalypse. They were originally a death metal cover band with harsh male vocals. With the joining of vocalist Floor Jansen in 1997, their style and sound shifted towards symphonic gothic metal, in order to give emphasis to her soprano voice, in contrast with the grunts and screams provided by Sander Gommans and Mark Jansen. Their line-up at this point comprised Floor Jansen, Mark Jansen (no relation to Floor), Sander Gommans, Luuk van Gerven, Jack Driessen and Joep Beckers. Soon, the band began composing their own songs, and then they changed their name to After Forever, after the Black Sabbath song. In 1999, the band recorded two demos entitled Ephemeral and Wings of Illusion, which drew the attention of the Dutch Transmission Records label, with whom the band signed a contract.

Their debut album Prison of Desire was recorded in 2000, featuring a guest appearance of Sharon den Adel of the Dutch band Within Temptation on the song “Beyond Me”. The album obtained very good reviews in Europe. By the end of the year, drummer André Borgman and keyboardist Lando van Gils joined the band, replacing Joep Beckers and Jack Driessen.

During the year 2000, Floor Jansen was invited to guest sing in Ayreon’s Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer album. Ayreon is the most successful of the many projects by Dutch guitarist Arjen Anthony Lucassen and that album is only the first of many other collaborations with Floor Jansen…
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After Forever – Energize Me

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