History Music / AfterForever

* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted in ''Invisible Circles''. The couple argues at the beginning ("Between Love and Fire", the man focused on his career while his wife believes a child can mend the growing rift between them. It doesn't.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The first four albums were rereleased in TheNewTens with a number of bonus tracks and session versions of most of the songs on a second disc.

* DeathGrowl

* MaleBandFemaleSinger: Thanks in large part to Music/{{Nightwish}}, which Floor joined permanently after After Forever's dissolution, it's quite common in SymphonicMetal to have a female lead singer for an otherwise all-male band.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Though their earlier work does show signs of OohMeAccentsSlipping (A good example is the pronunciation of "Amnesia" in "Intrinsic.")

-->[[ArchnemesisDad My father's will in here, it doesn't mean a thing]]
-->[[AbusiveParents And I don't fear his violent rage]]
-->[[TheAce I am the queen; you know I'm loved by everyone]].

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Sander Gommans encountered many abused children while working as an art teacher, which inspired ''Invisible Circles''.

* CoverVersion: "Who Wants to Live Forever" from the "Emphasis" single, and "One Day I'll Fly Away" and "The Evil That Men Do" from the ''Exordium'' EP. (Originally performed by Music/{{Queen}}, Music/RandyCrawford, and Music/IronMaiden respectively.)

After Forever (1995-2009) was a Dutch SymphonicMetal band. They started out playing DeathMetal under the name Apocalypse, but had shifted styles by the time they released their first album in 2000. (They did continue to use death metal-style HarshVocals in addition to operatic female vocals.) They released five albums before disbanding in 2009, due to burnout.

Members (as of breakup):

!Tropes that apply to After Forever

* CoverVersion: "Who Wants To Live Forever" from the "Emphasis" single, and "One Day I'll Fly Away" and "The Evil That Men Do" from the ''Exordium'' EP. (Originally performed by {{Queen}}, Randy Crawford, and Music/IronMaiden respectively.)

* DownerEnding: The two songs constituting "My Pledge of Allegiance", which deals with a wife planning to leave her husband.

* GreenAesop: "Equally Destructive"

* MesACrowd: Floor in the video for "Digital Deceit".
* ThePowerOfLove: "Energize Me".
* RockOpera: ''Invisible Circles''
* ReligionRantSong: ''Prison of Desire'' contained the introduction and first three chapters of "Embrace That Smothers," a musical suite which flew over onto {{Epica}}'s work through the Mark Jansen connection.

* SiameseTwinSongs: "Intrinsic"/"Zenith" from ''Decipher''. The latter almost comes off as a separate song if it weren't for the fading "eeee" at the start.

* StartMyOwn: Mark Jansen (no relation to Floor), their original guitarist, left due to CreativeDifferences and went on to form {{Epica}}.
** Floor formed Music/{{Revamp}} sometime after the splitup.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: though their earlier work does show signs of OohMeAccentsSlipping (A good example is the pronunciation of "Amnesia" in "Intrinsic")
* SymphonicMetal

-->[[TheAce I am the queen; you know I'm loved by everyone]]

* Joost van den Broek (keyboards)

* Jack Driessen (keyboards, 1995-2000)
* Lando van Gils (keyboards, 2000-2004)

** Floor formed Music/{{Revamp}} sometime after they splitup.

Afterwards, Floor announced a new band called Music/{{Revamp}}.

After Forever (1995-2009) was a Dutch SymphonicMetal band. They started out playing DeathMetal under the name Apocalypse, but had shifted styles by the time they released their first album in 2000. (They did continue to use death metal-style HarshVocals in addition to operatic female vocals.) They released five albums before disbanding in 2009.

Afterwards, Floor announced a new band called Music/{{ReVamp}}.

Afterwards, Floor announced a new band called Music/ReVamp.

* AGoodNameForARockBand: The band is named after a Music/BlackSabbath song.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Sander Gommans encountered many abused children while working as an art teacher, which inspired ''Invisible Circles''.

* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Floor Jansen definitely has the "tall" bit down, standing at a lofty ''six feet''.

* AbusiveParents: The theme of ''Invisible Circles''. The workaholic father refuses to compromise his chances at his dream career to help raise his daughter, leaving the mother to give up her job completely to spend time with the girl. With the father rarely around, the mother resorts to taking out her frustrations on their daughter at first, and things go FromBadToWorse when the father walks out on both of them...

After Forever (2000-2009) was a Dutch SymphonicMetal band. They started out playing DeathMetal under the name Apocalypse, but had shifted styles by the time they released their first album in 2000. (They did continue to use death metal-style HarshVocals in addition to operatic female vocals.) They released five albums before disbanding in 2009.

* AbusiveParents: The theme of ''Invisible Circles''.

* CoverVersion: "Who Wants To Live Forever", "One Day I'll Fly Away", and "The Evil That Men Do". (Originally performed by {{Queen}}, Randy Crawford, and Music/IronMaiden respectively.)

* GratuitousGreek: The cover to the SelfTitledAlbum [[http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/4/1/0/141096.jpg simply has the band's name and the letter Omega]]. [[HarsherInHindsight Accidentally symbolic]], as they weren't planning to break up after its release.

* AbusiveParents - The theme of ''Invisible Circles''.
* AGoodNameForARockBand - The band is named after a Music/BlackSabbath song.
* CoverVersion - "Who Wants To Live Forever", "One Day I'll Fly Away", and "The Evil That Men Do". (Originally performed by {{Queen}}, Randy Crawford, and Music/IronMaiden respectively.)

* EpicRocking: Dreamflight on their self titled album.
* GreenAesop - "Equally Destructive"
* RockOpera - ''Invisible Circles''
* ReligionRantSong: Their "Embrace That Smothers" which flew over onto {{Epica}}'s work through the Mark Jansen connection.
* SelfTitledAlbum - Oddly enough, their ''last'' album.
* SopranoAndGravel
* StartMyOwn - Mark Jansen (no relation to Floor), their original guitarist, left due to CreativeDifferences and went on to form {{Epica}}.
* StepfordSmiler - "Strong" is about a Type A.

* TallDarkAndBishoujo - Floor Jansen definitely has the "tall" bit down, standing at a lofty ''six feet''.
* WriteWhatYouKnow - Sander Gommans encountered many abused children while working as an art teacher, which inspired ''Invisible Circles''.

* TallDarkAndBishojou - Floor Jansen definitely has the "tall" bit down, standing at a lofty ''six feet''.

* ReligiousRantSong: Their "Embrace That Smothers" which flew over onto {{Epica}}'s work through the Mark Jansen connection.

* SymphonicMetal

After Forever was a Dutch SymphonicMetal band. They started out playing DeathMetal under the name Apocalypse, but had shifted styles by the time they released their first album in 2000. (They did continue to use death metal-style HarshVocals in addition to operatic female vocals.) They released five albums before disbanding in 2009.

* FaceOfTheBand - Floor, arguably. Helps that she's got one of the best voices in metal.

* Floor Jansen (lead vocals)