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Break for After Forever
As you might have noticed, After Forever experienced a lot in 2007.
A new deal with Nuclear Blast and The Entertainment Group, the release of a new album, gigs in Europe and the U.S.A./Canada, all thanks to your support.
Unfortunately, 2007 also had a negative side. Sander experienced the symtoms of a burn-out and had to stop playing with After Forever for a few months.
After Forever did a good job doing the scheduled gigs with mainly George (ex- Orphanage) as grunter, making possible the album could still be promoted.
After that, a European and an American/Canadian tour followed, with Sander this time, and his condition seemed to be ok.
Unfortunately, just recently, Sander fell victim to a seizure attack in an airplane, and after research that attack seemed to be stress related.
The doctors think this is a very serious matter, and they strongly advised him to not be involved with any After Forever activity for at least a year, to prevent a worse health situation.
Because Sander is one of the formers, songwriter and co manager of After Forever, an After Forever without him is no option.
The band has been able to solve his absence in 2007 live, but another year full of compromises would not be positive for the quality After Forever wants to offer.
After Forever is a band that wants to give 100% and that's just not possible now.
With pain in our hearts, we had to decide that After Forever has to take a break of at least a year and hope you will all repect that.
It's terrible not to be able to do all the great gigs and activities we were planning, but it's even worse for After Forever to do those things with a compromise.
We highly value everything the band has achieved, and we don't want to lose that.
We also realise we ask a lot of our fans since we know what our gigs and music means to them.
However, we will all still be active in the music scene. Because of this break everybody gets the chance to focus on projects.
On our site and myspace sites we'll keep you updated about those projects.
Not a very good start of the year, but thanks a lot for all your support and understanding, for now, for the future, but also for the past year.
We won't forget you and hope to meet you again if After Forever returns in full shape!!!
Floor, Sander, Bas, Joost, Luuk and Andre
Biography Bas Maas
I started to play live music when I was about 16 or 17 years old. When I was young I never listened to Hard Rock. But after my brother bought a guitar I started to listen to Hard Rock. The bands I listened to were Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden.
The first bands I played in were coverbands, mainly playing old rocksongs of the 70’s and 80’s. Next to playing guitar I always used to somehow end up as the leadsinger. We played in bars and small venues, nothing big. But I had a lot of fun during this period. During these gigs I learned a lot about putting on a good liveshow.
During my study to become a teacher, about 10 years ago, I met Sander Gommans. We had the same taste in music and soon we became good friends. When his band After Forever recorded their first cd and started to become famous I offered him to become his guitartech during liveshows. I ended up doing that for 2 years. When Mark left the band, I was offered to become one of the band’s guitarplayers. An offer that, of course, I couldn’t refuse. It was the beginning of the best time of my life and still it continues! Not only are we playing around the world, but the bandmembers became very good friends.
Next to playing in After Forever I’m working on some material of my own that I hope to record and play live sometime in the future. It has nothing to do with the After Forever-sound, but it’s more rock ‘n roll, like the music I used to play before I joined After Forever.
Next to playing in After Forever, a special moment for me personally was a gig I did with Doro Pesch. It was an honour for me to share the stage with this wonderfull woman who I see as an example. And a few weeks after this gig she shared the stage with After Forever to perform our new song Who I Am.
In my free time I like to read a lot of science fiction and fantasy books and I’m even trying to write a book myself, but I guess it’ll take about ten more years for me to finish it =)
ROCK ON!!!!
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