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System Overload (album)

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Released
  
February 23, 2009

Artist
  
HDK

Label
  
Season of Mist

Length
  
47:38

Release date
  
23 February 2009

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Recorded
  
Excess Studio, Rotterdam, Eterniastudios, Reuver, The Netherlands Gate Studios, Wolfsburg, Germany

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

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Death metal, Thrash metal

Producers
  
Sander Gommans, Joost van den Broek, Amanda Somerville

Similar
  
In the Beginning There Wa, Days of Rising Doom, Invisible Circles, Mentalize, Remagine

System Overload is the first album released by Dutch After Forever guitarist Sander Gommans's side project HDK (Hate, Death, Kill). The music of this album is heavier and more extreme than the usual style of After Forever and Gommans created HDK in order to release the album by himself. The album was released on 23 February 2009 on the Label Season of Mist. The many guest musicians involved in the making of this album produced and recorded their parts separately in various recording studios, following basic tracks provided by Gommans.

Contents

Hdk trailer


Track listing

All music by Sander Gommans, all lyrics by Amanda Somerville.

  1. "System Overload" – 3:02
  2. "Request" – 4:33
  3. "Let Go" – 3:33
  4. "Terrorist" – 4:19
  5. "Pedestal" – 5:23
  6. "On Hold" – 3:23
  7. "Breakdown" – 5:06
  8. "March" – 4:04
  9. "Perfect" – 5:14
  10. "Fight or Flight" – 4:06
  11. "Fine Lines" – 4:55

Personnel

  • Sander Gommans – guitars, vocals, producer, engineer, mixing
  • Peter Vink – bass
  • Ariën van Weesenbeek – drums

    • Guests musicians

  • Amanda Somerville – vocals, vocal producer
  • Joost van den Broek – keyboards, producer, mixing
  • Arjen Lucassen – guitar solos
  • Marcel Coenen – guitar solos
  • Bastiaan Kuiper – guitar solos
  • Andre Matos – clean vocals
  • Jos Severens – clean vocals
  • Patrick Savelkoul – grunts and screams
  • Mike Scheijen – screams
  • Paul Niessen – raps (on track 7)

    • Production

  • Hans Pieters – producer
  • Darius van Helfteren – mastering at Wisseloord Studios – Hilversum

    • Songs

    1System Overload3:02
    2Request4:34
    3Let Go3:33

    References

    System Overload (album) Wikipedia
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