Invisible Circles

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Invisible Circles
Studio album by After Forever
Released	March 25, 2004
Recorded	Excess Studio, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; July-August 2003
Genre	Symphonic Metal
Length	58:56
Label	Transmission / Avalon Records
Producer	Hans Pieters
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
After Forever chronology
My Choice/The Evil That Men Do (2003) Invisible Circles (2004) Digital Deceit (2004)

Invisible Circles (2004) is the third album released by After Forever, the first since the departure of Mark Jansen. It is a concept album (arguably a metal opera, since it has characters and some sort of plot), dealing with issues involved when having children. This can be seen especially in "Blind Pain" which has an outro where two parents argue and wish eachothers death - consequently one leaves during the course of the argument.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Childhood in Minor" (Instrumental) – 1:20
2. "Beautiful Emptiness" – 5:25
3. "Between Love and Fire" – 4:56
4. "Sins of Idealism" – 5:22
5. "Eccentric" – 4:10
6. "Digital Deceit" – 5:38
7. "Through Square Eyes" – 6:23
8. "Blind Pain" – 6:47
9. "Two Sides" – 4:34
10. "Victim of Choices" – 3:21
11. "Reflections" – 5:11
12. "Life's Vortex" – 5:53

[edit] Changes

This is the first full-length album After Forever released after the departure of Mark Jansen (not counting the mini album Exordium), and the changes on this album are very clear. A new sound has been found by the band, one mostly revolving around elements of heavy metal.

Lyrically, After Forever has chosen an entirely different theme, letting go of the dangers of religion, and focusing more on different social problems. Also after Mark Jansen left the band, the band stopped putting the songs in parts [i.e. The Embrace That Smothers, and My Pledge of Allegiance]

[edit] Credits

Floor Jansen - Vocals
Bas Maas - Guitar, Clean Male Vocals
Sander Gommans - Guitar, Grunts
Luuk van Gerven - Bass
Lando van Gils - Keyboards
André Borgman - Drums