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Exordium (EP)

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Released
  
October 17, 2003

Length
  
26:39

Artist
  
After Forever

Label
  
Transmission Records

Recorded
  
April-June 2003

Producer
  
Hans Pieters

Release date
  
17 October 2003

Genre
  
Symphonic metal

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Exordium (2003)
  
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Exordium is a 2003 EP album by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. Another version of this album was released in 2004, with a bonus DVD entitled Insights. "The Evil That Men Do" is a cover of the Iron Maiden song, while "One Day I'll Fly Away" is a metal version of a ballad originally sung by Randy Crawford. This is the first recording of the band with new guitarist Bas Maas, who replaced Mark Jansen. Exordium is the first After Forever album to enter the Dutch Top 100 chart, where it remained for two weeks, peaking at #56.

Contents

After forever line of thoughts


Track listing

  1. "Line of Thoughts" (instrumental) (Sander Gommans) – 2:15
  2. "Beneath" (André Borgman, Gommans, Floor Jansen, Bas Maas, Luuk van Gerven, Land van Gils) – 4:54
  3. "My Choice" (Borgman, Gommans, Jansen, Maas, van Gerven, van Gils) – 4:54
  4. "Glorifying Means" (Borgman, Gommans, Jansen, Maas, van Gerven, van Gils) – 5:01
  5. "The Evil That Men Do" (Bruce Dickinson, Steve Harris, Adrian Smith) – 4:52 (Iron Maiden cover)
  6. "One Day I'll Fly Away" (Will Jennings, Joe Sample) – 4:43 (Randy Crawford cover)

Exordium [Bonus DVD]

  1. My Choice (Multimedia Track)
  2. Making Of (My Choice) (Multimedia Track)
  3. Studio Recordings (Multimedia Track)
  4. Slide Show (Multimedia Track)
  5. Artwork (Multimedia Track)

Songs

1Line of Thoughts2:15
2Beneath4:54
3My Choice4:55

References

Exordium (EP) Wikipedia
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