Just think - this was around the time young Floor Jansen joined After Forever. It was seeing Anneke that made her decide what she wanted to sing. The rest is history.
It is not that she did not want to sing, she did, but her realization that it is possible to sing well in this type of music and it was possible for her to make the music she loved, while singing the way she wanted. At the time there were few women and most voices were 'interesting', but not skilled. Anneke and, a few years later, Tarja pioneered the voice as an instrument in metal, as opposed to someone shouting some lyrics.
In an interview on Dutch TV Floor Jansen said that after hearing The Gathering she decided she wanted to be in a female fronted metal band! The rest is history........!
She's like a fine wine, better with the years. Love that woman. Haven't listened to her new album yet. Love her work with Agua de Annique, VUUR, solo and acoustic stuff... maybe it is easier to say everything. LOL.
The best song from "The Gathering" is for me at least "Travel". It is about Mozart, who besides being a fantastic composer was also a bit off the rails, like so many genius people. Definitely worth a listen, and an expression of admiration for Mozart. So you see, musicians respect all kinds of music. I hope you experience the same as I do when I listen to this song, enjoy and pay attention to the lyrics. Live at Doornroosje.
I had such a crush on her, still adore her today, logically because she's such a great front lady and genuine person who did not let fame change her in any way or form, she's truly loves what she does. And more importantly, she and her band have paved the way for many of the people we adore today. (Like Floor Jansen for instance) Thnx for the react Mike and Ginger, it's always a good day when you hear Anneke sing :)
She is my favorite female vocalist and of course Floor is 2nd. Here is a song from their 25th anniversary tour for your listening pleasure on your own time. It is a tour they did with all the members new and old together. This is probably my favorite song from those days. It is about Mozart. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y46Lft_BZxo.html
My first exposure to The Gathering was this video. Been hooked ever since with their entire body of work, from goth, to alt-prog, to trip rock. Incredible band.
Great song from a great album! Saw them live for the first time in December 1995 and still have got the poster with the cover artwork which was handed out to everyone attending the concert. If I were to suggest a live song, it would be the version of "Rescue Me" from the "A Sound Relief"-DVD, especially because of the awesome theremin solo - something you don't get to hear very often, especially not in metal music. This version is also to be found on youtube (with Spanish subtitles), but I don't know if it would be safe for a reaction-video. You might still watch it for your own pleasure.
The Gentle Storm was an interesting band that Anneke fronted and “The Storm” is a brilliant song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_qpseRKIYuE.html
"the gathering" has made an awesome cover of dead can dances "in power we entrust the love advocated". one of the best covers ever. but I´m double biased. :)
The Gathering is in my top ten favorite bands. Anneke van Giersbergen sings on many albums by Ayreon and she sings in the two live concerts: Ayreon Universe live, with Floor Jansen The electric castle live and other tales, with Simone Simons.
I was 21 when her with this concert on the television. Her voice, smile, energy and her cuteness. I was in love. I'm still a great fan of her. She played with a Icelandic band called Árstíðir and it's the most beautiful thing that i heared of her.
Sorry, this ain’t grunge at all. This was their most accessible song (it was a radiohit over here) but their roots are atmospheric doom metal. Oh, and it is not her band. In fact when she joined they were already working on their third album. Most of the music was already written. If it is anyone’s band then it sure is the band is the brother Hans and Rene Rutten (drums and guitarplayer on the left) as they formed the band. Together with keyboardplayer Frank Boeijen they are the original members that have been with the band since inception. Regarding their influence: their debut (without Anneke but with a line up featuring a male grunter and female vocalist) is the one album that has been hugely influential on the European metal scene closely followed by that first album with Anneke. It was the contrast between make grunts and ethereal female vocals that was pretty unique at that time. It spawned the whole Beauty & The Beast style. I don’t know if you watched it already but there is great video of The Gathering playing the song Travel at their TG25 anniversary show. Anneke guested there as well almost all vocalist who ever had sung with The Gathering. At the end of the song they all come out and join in on the end chorus.
Awwright ... so this it where it started. Doomy and gloomy with their landmark album Mandylion. And from this point on they evolved to give Mike that more Floydy metal touch with an even more melodic and,melancholic sound to eventually end with kinda shoegazing / trip hoppy 2006 album Home, and Anneke's final tour with them 'A Noise Severe', after which their ways parted but neither ended. I bet their 2005 concert 'A Sound Relief' in which they produced a breathtaking trip hoppy soundscape will please Mike the most. The Gathering paved the way for many, many bands with most of their albums marked 'innovative' in one way or another. For Anneke's vocals this was just the beginning and in later albums, collabs and concerts she developed her unique sound that made her one of the most wanted featured vocalists in metal and related genres. Nightwish's Tuomas was looking for a vocalist 'like that chick from The Gathering'. And Devin Townsend tagged her his hero and Metal Tinkerbell. So much more vocal and musical experiences to explore when you go further down Anneke's and The Gathering's rabbit holes. Enjoy! Do note the most recommended reaction videos elsewhere in this comments section to get a feel of the true force of nature Anneke would become when belting and wailing it out loud. That especially holds for tracks she wrote herself with The Gathering and then especially those performed during their TG25 concerts in 2014, and in the numerous performances with Devin and Arjen, as both these musical geniuses also realised how to optimally utilise her vocal capabilities. Ofc, there's more, much more. And for Gathering and Anneke fans it has always proven to be a tough decision to pinpoint their best or most signature songs and performances ... as there are so many tasteful dishes they served.
Anneke is awesome- she is an influence for many female metal singers such as Floor. Speaking about influence: Please check out Doro, she is around since the 80s and is the mother of all female singers and bands. One of our German exports ^^
Thanks for your great choice. Good old, sorry still young, Anneke van Giersbergen as inspiration for excellent female fronted metal singers from the Netherlands; Floor and sister Irene Jansen (After Forever, Revamp, Nightwish), Simone Simons (Epica), Charlotte Wessels (Delain), Dianne van Giersbergen (ao. Xandria and not directly family related), Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation), Zora Cock (Blackbriar), and a lot of other talented Dutch girls.
Hi guys, great reaction! I was trying to find reaction to Gathering's Liberty Bell. No one does it! Which is mind-blowing, as song is considered a masterpiece. Maybe you can do it - don't do the video version. It's considerably shortened.
I love a lot of Anneke's works, but for someone looking to focus on her vocals, some of her more current works are better. She has an incredible ability to smile all the time while performing. Hurricane - Darkest Skies are Brightest (2021) (Rock) The Endless Sea (gentle version) - The Gentle Storm (2015) (Arjen side project) My Champion - Vuur (2017) (Metal) Can't wait for you to discover more of Ayreon's works. Arjen really gets so much out of her skill. Cheers for the reaction!
Honestly was never a big fan of "strange machines" as i feel it`s not very representative of the band. They were very atmospheric and trippy. More recent is difficult as she unfortunately left the band many years ago... but they did a 25 years reunion concert and i would start there. For a more trippy one start here(Travel): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y46Lft_BZxo.html For a more rocky one here(On Most Surfaces): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UpEm0YZWI8k.html For one off the Album before she left the band(Waking Hour): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pUKBV8M_XXE.html Also "Amity", "Saturnine" and "The Big Sleep" are must hears. After that she had solo albums as "Agua de Annique" later as "Anneke Van Giersbergen" and a more heavy band called "Vuur". Also a one album symphonic metal projekt called "The Gentle Storm". If you want VERY recent she just released a solo Album called "The Darkest Skies Are The Brightest" in which she reflects her divorce (Hurricane): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T8PA4w1iSug.html Sorry for the long comment but i just love her very much and got excited seeing a reaction from you guys. By the way love your reactions and your taste in music!
'Her Band' could mean The Gathering. Her Solo stuff, The Gentle Storm or Vuur. I think my favourites are her many live spots with just her and her acoustic totally charming the audience.
Anneke released a couple of new MV's for her new solo album this year. You should check them out. It has more of a poppy sound but hearing Anneke sing is always a delight.
Who started using female voices was CELTIC FROST (Switzerland) in 1984 and THERION in 1992 [(Sweden) the band formed in 1987, use keyboards, but it was DEATH-BLACK METAL] uses female and choral voices. So the DNA of the bands with WOMEN ON VOCALS is death and black metal - symphonic metal too, but not Nightwish that was a POWER METAL band, inspired by Stratovarius, something like Yngwie Malmsteen in 1984, and the voice of Kari Rueslatten (style folk) of The Third and The Mortal the inspiration for Tuomas to invite Tarja). The Gathering begins ATMOSPHERIC DEATH-DOOM with "Always ..." by the band The Gathering (as Paradise Lost - UK, is Gothic) is also a precursor to female vocals [Marike Groot - vocals (1992-1993; participation in 2014, it was NOT ANNEKE)]. They do not use female vocals throughout the album, but it is something that is never done in DOOM METAL (in death as I said it is Celtic Frost). In songs like "Second Sunrise" and "Stonegarden", it adds textures to the vocals and a lighter approach to death-doom. The Gathering uses this approach more than Paradise Lost and it gives the band more depth. First album of The Gathering "Always ..." is innovative for death-doom-gothic metal. The lyrics are sophisticated and dark and the way The Gathering uses these new features for this metal direction is unique and different for that time. THIS DIRECTION WOULD NOT LAST LONG, as the band would continue experimenting more, and would make cuts in their music and vocals. As in Mandylion, Strange Machines was here. The first album of the Theater of Tragedy (this is the divisive album in terms of musical impact) was released a few months before Mandylion (The Gathering) and is the beginning of the vocal beauty and the beast with Liv Kristine (main vocal, in this case from The Gathering to Marike was supporting vocal and then Anneke was the only voice of The Gathering). The album "Mandylion" helped to inspire many future Gothic Metal bands in the next decade that had a female singer. True, The Gathering's third album (Mandylion) did more than that, it broke the limits that women can do for heavy metal. Even Floor was influenced to sing metal, not vocal style. The Gathering had already made musical revolutions during their death-doom era, especially with "Always ..." They were one of the first doom metal bands to use gothic metal keyboards, and the second to use female backing vocals (behind Paradise Lost, gothic band). When Bart Smits left the band, the guitarist took over the vocals in "Almost a Dance". It would be a musical and creative disaster since the vocals, music and production on this album would be below average and uninspired (female vocals by Martine Van Loon). For "Mandylion", The Gathering places a bet by bringing Anneke Van Giersbergen, 22, to be the vocalist and change her vocal and musical direction. "Mandylion" is undoubtedly one of the biggest and most important Gothic Metal albums. The impact alongside what the Theater of Tragedy was doing was felt during the 2000s and is still today. The cliché characteristic of this term "main female band" was because of bands like Theater of Tragedy, The Third and The Mortal and The Gathering. However, The Gathering caused greater criticism because of the creativity and experimentation that was finally well performed with this album (unfair because The Third and The Mortal was even more avant guard).
I love Anneke and her voice. You should do the song Travel. Anneke is 48.You should listen to her new acoustic album. Travel is with The Gatherings 25 Anniversary and it's about Mozart. It was her brother that got her interested in Metal. Like a Stone a Chris Cornell song and I like the one with Vuur and funny moments.
Anneke at the start of her career ,the gathering at the start with her was doom metal but they changed style later on and anneke left so there is now a new (well shes been there a while now)female singer called silge. I recommend from her solo band “beautiful one” its a stunning song(to me). The gathering:liberty bell, the gentle storm: the storm .vuur : valley of diamonds. Solo :feel alive.
(I do not know if she was there but ...) Imagine Floor as present among Anneke's audience and amazed: Is that also possible for a girl, becoming a singer in a Rock band? Anneke has (according to her own words) been her eye-opener and motivation to start her Modern Music education at the Rock Academy (in Tilburg, NLD) and look where it has taken her. Can you imagine what an honor she thought it was to be invited by Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon) to, among other things, stand on one stage next to her rolemodel Anneke to sing 'The Valley of the Queens' (also with Marcela).
@@ChrisPage68 I love her, she's terrific. I'd just like her to sing a song like, I will always love you. Do you have any suggestions of something like that from her?
Try the 2005 'A Sound relief' concert and tell us if you kept it dry: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9UTusl9Wz9M.html Or her work with Danny Cavanagh, Lorrainville or Arstidir. :^)
