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The very next day we tested another vocalist canditate [sic]. She came to the studio to sing some new songs. Sounded astonishingly good! She sang one of the new slower songs with such soul it made the songwriter bite his lip instead of producing.

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When I got back home I checked through all the new lyrics. 13 ready so far, 2 still under way. I felt content to realize this is the best I can do. 3 lines of the lyrics were cencored [sic], though. I received a very polite note from London saying that these lines would be far too unappropriate [sic] to sing, since we are not doing another "Exorcist"-sequel here... I got the point and rewrote the lines with a bleeding heart. The artist was again misunderstood. Or actually he was understood all too well this time.

Napalm Records have been doing a brilliant job for their bands. Since last year they have been making a great effort to sign us and therefore we are extremely happy to work together with them for the next years to bring Edenbridge to the next level together. It's nice to see again that a label has one hundred percent trust and therefore invests into a band. Thank you also to all the other labels who were making offers to the band and showed their big interest, and to Massacre Records for the cooperation in the past years.

When you picked up the guitar again, was it like having to start from scratch?

It definitely wasn't like from scratch. It's kind of like the knowledge is there. My mind would tell my hand what it should do, but it wouldn't do it. The knowledge was still there, it's just training my hand to do what it's supposed to do.

• Deceptive Mirrors
• My Comfort
• Venom Inside My Veins
• Decadence Becomes Me
• She Weaves Shadows
• The Closing Walls
• Empty Room
• Poisonous Tongues
• As It Penetrates
• Shades of Yesterday

Commented guitarist Sander Gommans about the signing: "After Forever has grown a lot the past years. We've done more and more shows and festivals worldwide and also experienced a lot of improvement musically. I feel that After Forever is stronger than ever, as a group but also musically. this is the right time to choose for a label that can help us realising our dreams! Because the core of the After Forever songs is metal-orientated, it's a very natural decision for us to choose Nuclear Blast!"

However we cannot hide from the fact that we have grown apart from each other as persons and we have different views of how we want Beseech to work as a band. This has taken away all the inspiration to continue and we see this as the only solution in the end. This way we can all part as friends and wish each other good luck with new endeavors that will follow.

The as-yet-untitled disc will include a complete movie with a lot of interesting background information. Moreover, the band is planning an indoor and an outdoor show with special stage and show elements exclusively for the DVD. More information will be made available soon.

On Tuesday morning we woke up with a smile in our faces knowing that there were only two more songs to be recorded and after that... PARTY! We started by recording a calm ballad in which we needed to focus on getting the beat running smoothly because tempo is really slow. When playing beat on a slow tempo, the beat easily sounds unsteady which makes the whole song to sound unsteady. We succeeded really well, and after a little break it was time to take over the last song. It was a song which in Nightwish-scale is extremely fast and goes on the very limits of player's abilities. After being sure this song was well recorded it was time to party. First we took a fast trip to the nearest liquer store and then went to sauna. In the early hours we again recorded some great stuff which might be released someday, somehow.

Octavia has now finished a pre-prod for our next album. This weekend we went to MOF studios in Sandefjord, with Morfeus (Dimension F3H and Limbonic Art) behind the desk. We have to say we are really happy with the results!! The recording of the album will start next weekend. We will use Herbrand Larsen (Enslaved, x-Audrey Horne) and Arve Isdal (I, Enslaved and Audrey Horne) as we did on Winter Enclosure album. The release is scheduled for April 2007.

Jeroen has decided to concentrate on an other musical career and will therefore leave Epica. We want to thank him for everything he has contributed to the band for the last 4 years and want to wish him all the best in his new musical career!