Sander Gommans

Sander Gommans
Sander Gommans playing live with After Forever
Background information
Born	(1978-08-15) August 15, 1978
Origin	Dutch
Genres	Symphonic metal, death metal, heavy metal
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, record producer, art teacher
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Nuclear Blast, Seasons of Mist, Frontiers Records
Associated acts	After Forever, HDK, Trillium, Scheepers, Kiske/Somerville, MaYaN
Website	http://www.myspace.com/sandergommans

Sander Gommans (born August 15, 1978^[1]) is a Dutch musician. He founded the symphonic metal band Apocalypse with Mark Jansen in 1995, which later changed its name to After Forever. He played guitar and did the grunting parts in the band. He managed the band and was the main writer of After Forever's music.

After recording all guitars for the album Rise of the Warrior by Anna Phoebe, he has undertaken a project called HDK, which is signed to Season of Mist; HDK's debut album, System Overload, was released on February 23, 2009.

He is also the additional lead guitarist on Kiske/Somerville, an album by the German singer, keyboard player and guitarist Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween) and the American singer-songwriter and vocal coach Amanda Somerville. In 2010 he co-wrote the album Scheepers, a solo album of Primal Fear's lead vocalist Ralf Scheepers.

Resulting from his partnership with Amanda Somerville on HDK and Kiske/Somerville, Sander became one of the main members of Amanda's self heavy metal-oriented project called Trillium, which first album Alloy was released in fall 2011 by the record company Frontiers Records.^[2]

Currently, he's working on a new HDK album and he's setting up a music company called "The Rockstation" which will consist of a music academy/a music studio/music management/music merchandise.

Discography

With After Forever

• Prison of Desire (2000)
• Decipher (2001)
• Exordium (EP) (2003)
• Invisible Circles (2004)
• Remagine (2005)
• After Forever (2007)

EPs

• Exordium (2003)

Singles

• "Follow in the Cry" (2000)
• "Emphasis/Who Wants to Live Forever" (2002)
• "Monolith of Doubt" (2002)
• "My Choice/The Evil That Men Do" (2003)
• "Digital Deceit" (2004)
• "Being Everyone" (2005)
• "Two Sides/Boundaries Are Open" (2006)
• "Energize Me" (2007)
• "Equally Destructive" (2007)

Demos

• Ephemeral (1999)
• Wings of Illusion (1999)

Compilations

• Mea Culpa (2006)

With HDK

• System Overload (2009)
• Serenades of the Netherworld (2014)

With Trillium

• Alloy (2011)

Other credits

• Epica - The Divine Conspiracy (2007) - vocals on "Death of a Dream ~ The Embrace That Smothers part VII"
• Anna Phoebe - Rise of the Warrior (2008) - guitars
• Kiske/Somerville - Kiske/Somerville (2010) - writing credits and guitars
• Ralf Scheepers - Scheepers (2011) - writing credits and guitars
• MaYaN - Quarterpast (2011) - writing credits on "Bite the Bullet"
• Aeverium - The Harvest (2013) - producing on "Heaven's Burning (Harvest Time)"

References

External links

• Sander Gommans @ Myspace
• Sander Gommans @ Facebook
• Project HDK Official Site (Currently unavailable)
• The Rock Station