Sander Gommans

Sander Gommans
Born	August 15, 1978 (1978-08-15)
Genres	Symphonic metal
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Nuclear Blast Records
Associated acts	After Forever, HDK

Sander Gommans (born August 15, 1978) 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 was one of the main writers of After Forever's music.

He has undertaken a project called HDK, which is signed to Seasons 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.

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 will have the first album Alloy released in fall 2011 by the record company Frontiers Records.

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

External links

• Sander Gommans @ Myspace
• Sander Gommans @ Facebook
• Project HDK Official Site

New title	Vocalist for After Forever Guitarist for After Forever 1995–2009	Disbanded
	Vocalist for HDK Guitarist for HDK since 2009	Incumbent