Exordium is a 2003 EP album by Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 symphonic metal

Symphonic metal

Symphonic metal is a term used to describe heavy metal music that has symphonic elements; that is, elements that are either borrowed from classical music or, as with progressive rock music, create a style reminiscent of it, e.g...

 band After Forever

After Forever

After Forever was a Dutch symphonic metal band with strong progressive metal influences. The band relied on the use of both soprano vocals and death grunts. In February 2009, it was announced that After Forever had disbanded.-Biography:...

. Another version of this album was released in 2004, with a bonus DVD entitled Insights. "The Evil That Men Do

The Evil That Men Do (song)

"The Evil That Men Do" was released in 1988 by Iron Maiden. It is the band's seventeenth single and the second from their Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. The single debuted at number six in the UK charts and quickly rose to number five...

" is a cover of the Iron Maiden song, while "One Day I'll Fly Away

One Day I'll Fly Away

"One Day I'll Fly Away" is a song with music by Joe Sample and words by Will Jennings, performed by Randy Crawford and released in 1980.Joe Sample created the chorus based on Impromptus, D...

" is a metal version of a ballad originally sung by Randy Crawford

Randy Crawford

Randy Crawford is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist...

. This is the first recording of the band with new guitarist Bas Maas, who replaced Mark Jansen

Mark Jansen

Mark Jansen, , is a heavy metal musician.As guitarist, Jansen founded After Forever with Sander Gommans, and was one of the main songwriters since their debut album Prison of Desire. He left After Forever in 2002, and after his departure the band took a new musical direction...

. Exordium is the first After Forever album to enter the Dutch Top 100 chart, where it remained for two weeks, peaking at #56.

Track listing

1. "Line of Thoughts" (instrumental) (S. Gommans) – 2:15
2. "Beneath" (A. Borgman, S. Gommans, F. Jansen, B. Maas, L. Van Gerven, L. Van Gils) – 4:54
3. "My Choice
   My Choice/The Evil That Men Do
   My Choice/The Evil That Men Do is a 2003 single by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. It is taken from their EP Exordium and was the band's first single after the departure of co-founder Mark Jansen.-Track listing:...
   
   " (A. Borgman, S. Gommans, F. Jansen, B. Maas, L. Van Gerven, L. Van Gils) – 4:54
4. "Glorifying Means" (A. Borgman, S. Gommans, F. Jansen, B. Maas, L. Van Gerven, L. Van Gils) – 5:01
5. "The Evil That Men Do
   The Evil That Men Do (song)
   "The Evil That Men Do" was released in 1988 by Iron Maiden. It is the band's seventeenth single and the second from their Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. The single debuted at number six in the UK charts and quickly rose to number five...
   
   " (B. Dickinson, S. Harris, A. Smith) – 4:52
6. "One Day I'll Fly Away
   One Day I'll Fly Away
   "One Day I'll Fly Away" is a song with music by Joe Sample and words by Will Jennings, performed by Randy Crawford and released in 1980.Joe Sample created the chorus based on Impromptus, D...
   
   " (Will Jennings
   Will Jennings
   Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic .-Life and education:...
   
   , Joe Sample
   Joe Sample
   Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample is an American pianist, keyboard player and composer.He is one of the founding members of the Jazz Crusaders, the band which became simply The Crusaders in 1971, and remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991 .- Biography :Sample began playing the piano...
   
   ) – 4:43

Exordium [Bonus DVD]

1. My Choice (Multimedia Track)
2. Making Of (My Choice) (Multimedia Track)
3. Studio Recordings (Multimedia Track)
4. Slide Show (Multimedia Track)
5. Artwork (Multimedia Track)

Personnel

Band members

• Floor Jansen
  Floor Jansen
  Floor Jansen is a Dutch singer, who was the lead singer of the symphonic metal band After Forever which disbanded in 2009, and is the current singer for ReVamp.-After Forever:...
  
   - vocals
• Sander Gommans
  Sander Gommans
  Sander Gommans 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...
  
   - guitar, grunts
• Bas Maas - guitar
• Luuk van Gerven - bass
• Lando van Gils - keyboards
• André Borgman - drums

Production

• Hans Pieters - producer, engineer
• Dennis Leidelmeijer - engineer
• Sascha Paeth
  Sascha Paeth
  Sascha Paeth is a German guitarist, bassist, musical producer, and mixer known for working with heavy metal bands such as Avantasia, Edguy, Angra, Shaaman, Rhapsody of Fire, Kamelot, After Forever, Epica, et al...
  
  - mixing
• Angelique Wassink - camera operator, screenplay
• Arne Pelgrom - camera operator
• Eric Pelgrom - set design
• Mirko Pelgrom - special effects, video editor
• Hans van Vuuren - executive producer
• Peter van 't Riet - mastering

Additional musicians

• Cees' Kieboom - piano, keyboards, strings and choir arrangements
• Ana Tudor - violin
• Jeanneke Biessen - violin
• Yvonne van de Pol - viola
• Sander van Berkel - violoncello
• Frans Grapperhaus - violoncello
• Ellen Bakker - choir
• Hans Cassa - choir
• Caspar De Jonge - choir
• Marga Okhuizen - choir
• Yvette Boertje - announcer