She is just so fantastic to watch performing...I LOVE her smile and her eyes and the way she moves... she is so sensual without being provocative - she doesn't try to be sexy, she just is, yet in a wholesome way.
I've been listening to this song for 15 years now. It seems like the music comes from another dimension. True musicians, magical and genius. Still in love with Anneke's voice .
Don't mind me commenting on a 13 year old video. I just wanted to say that this video depicts perfectly all the things that made The Gathering great. When they started out they were imo just a pretty average band. In '94 they just happened to stumble across Anneke who would become one of the greatest metal vocalists of her generation. Yet a pretty average Band with a great vocalist is still just a pretty average band with a great vocalist. What made them great was that they had the balls to reintroduce ambience and a for their time quite unique symphonic sound into the scene. Having a great vocalist helped. The Gathering are one of the most influential metal bands of the 90s, pioneers of gothic, ambient and symphonic metal. To summarize, what made them great were balls and Anneke :)
I so totally fail to see any faint hint of gothic style in The Gathering songs. Slightly metal-ish here and there, yes. All in all I think they are much closer to Pink Floyd, Genesis, Talk Talk and their likes. More a proggy rock and pop machine. There's no Iron Maiden, Metallica, Mötley Crue, Meshuggah or anything in The Gathering's music, just like there is only remote resemblance to The Cure, Cinema Strange, Lacrimosa and their likes. Balls and Anneke, yes. That. ^^)
Mandylion and Nighttime Birds kind of have that gothic aesthetic. Maybe my understanding of what Gothic metal entails is flawed. I don't know shit about gothic metal, so I don't quite know why I claimed the gathering were pioneers of said Genre I know next to nothing about... The one about ambient metal I'm sticking with though.
@@luisheidegger7853 …and what are those labels anyway? The Cure would call their music pop, The Sisters of Mercy are called Godfathers of Goth, but see themselves as a rock and pop band with some industrial. If I remember right, the term Goth was invented by some music journalist when describing Joy Division. (But wouldn't you call their style something like post punk today?) Lemmy's Rock'n'Roll band Motörhead was called metal, but never by Lemmy. Should we ask him? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A6ThAr-saUE.html Cheers&have a ball, mate! :oD
Yes, i saw her in january and i was standing just couple of meters away from the stage. That smile is really like pure sunlight. Anneke and Sharon should team up with Floor from Nightwish, Simone from Epica and Charlotte from Delain. Now, there would be the first "girlband" ever that I would pay money to see :)
IMHO her smiles adds to the song as its showing how much of her beautiful spirit is into it. Also I take from this a sense of rebirth but this could just be my interpretation.
She seems so happy to be performing, yet her songs (lyrically) were hella tragic in the mid 90s... I think she was trying to prove she wasn't a depressed person because I always thought she was due to her extremely sad vibe and lyrics in the albums Night Time Birds and Mandylion.
No. Unfortunately, in these songs, beautiful and brilliant, there was little Anneke as a person. The texts were written at the request of the brothers. The real Anneke in solo albums.
@@NiVinny Yes, but the brothers (that founded The Gathering) made Anneke sound like a depressed singer with the lyrics. I think she liked it (at first) otherwise she wouldn't have accepted to sing for the band... Even Heavy Metal magazines said "she was in love with dying" and that "The Gathering was depressing music." I hated the music critics for saying this like it was suppose to be bad music.
I love this band... their capability of taking a great song and play it in new stunning versions focusing on music and not on themselves... Just a couple of days and I'll see them again in concert with the new singer... it will be strange without Annie...
Ich durfte damals The Gathering auf der Nighttime Birds Tour (hab das Jahr vergessen) zusammen mit Lacuna Coil (die damals gerade am Anfang ihrer Karriere standen) sehen. Anneke hat einem bei jedem Lied mitgerissen. Ich hab die Band danach noch getroffen, wirklich nette Leute.
Sadness... to me TG music potentialize the feelings, sometimes for hapyness other for the oposite. For those who thing this music is saddening I recomend "Liberty Bell"
@DirtyThing20 She left the band but she's still singing. She has different projects now, including solo stuff, and it's all great ♥ I remember when I got the first Gathering CD, it was a bit death metalish, and then she joined the band and made it all better :)
Same band, different periods. The first album had low pitched growls, the second one a goth-like male singer, and from that point onward they used female singers, but their music has always been in constant change.
lol, we gotta 1 dislike, lol. anyways, i've been tracking TG bootlegs from 1994 to 2007, and i concluded that someone should eventually tell this lady to make that lone error we've been waiting for so long, so we can be sure we're dealing with human affairs after all.
