Chronique de l'album

  La pochette de Remagine en aura surpris plus d’un. En effet After Forever nous avait habitué à des livrets au design recherché avec de belles illustrations. Or, ici la pochette de ce nouvel opus est beaucoup moins travaillée, cela fait un peu amateur et cette première impression aurait pu nous inquiéter quand à la qualité de la musique mais heureusement, cet album n'a rien à envier aux précédents !

  Remagine est différent des autres albums et il risque de dérouter les fans de la première heure.
  Les parties orchestrales et symphoniques sont moins présentes, Floor utilise moins sa voix de soprano et chante de façon plus variée. Les grunts de Sander et le chant clair de Bas sont présents sur plusieurs morceaux et complètent à merveille ceux de Floor.
  Dans l’ensemble l’album sonne plus rock que métal. Sur cet opus l’accent est mis sur les guitares qui sont puissantes et heavy.
Si "Invisible Circles" marquait une transition par rapport à l'époque Mark Jansen, "Remagine" poursuit cette évolution du groupe et nous annonce ce que Sander présente comme un nouveau style musical, qui s'écarte du style gothique à voix féminines.

  Remagine est très accrocheur et contient des refrains faciles à mémoriser (comme le single "Being everyone" et "Face your demons"). Les chansons sont faites pour être jouées sur scène et le groupe le démontre bien à chaque concert.

  Bien sûr, le groupe ne coupe pas totalement les liens avec son passé orchestral et nous offre plus de six minutes grandioses avec la chanson "Only Everything".
  Ce morceau démarre lentement avec la voix de Floor sur un fond de guitare acoustique et de piano agrémenté de quelques sons électroniques. Peu à peu l'ambiance change et les autres instruments entrent en scène. Le morceau continue alors sur un rythme plus rapide avec un refrain assez puissant. Des chœurs viennent ensuite renforcer l'ambiance déjà très explosive et nous portent jusqu'au refrain final. Il est intéressant de noter que les chœurs ont été enregistrés par Sascha Paeth (Rhapsody, Luca Turilli, Kamelot, Aïna, …) dont on connaît bien le talent de producteur.
  "Strong", la ballade de l’album, est chargée en émotion (c’est la maladie de la mère de Floor qui a inspirée les paroles et André a enregistré la batterie durant son traitement pour combattre le cancer), on sent de l’émotion dans la voix de Floor. C’est une chanson très belle avec un superbe solo de guitare à la fin et elle s'inscrit parfaitement dans l'album pour nous reposer l'esprit après le déchainement musical de "Only Everything".
  "No Control" est la chanson la plus violente de l’album et est dépourvue du chant de Floor. Le duo de Bas et Sander sur cette chanson est efficace.
  "Forever" clôture Remagine en beauté avec une ambiance orientale un peu dans le style de l’album Decipher.

  Remagine est une réussite, et un album grand public avec des ambiances variées.
A posséder absolument !


A propos du DVD :

  L'édition limitée de Remagine contient un DVD bonus.
  Un documentaire nous montre le groupe en studio. Il s'agit plus d'images filmées pour avoir un souvenir de l'ambiance que d'un documentaire et on n’apprend pas grand chose sur la conception de l’album même si c'est amusant à regarder. On nous montre surtout le groupe en train de s’amuser et de délirer. On voit également Sander à l’hôpital car il doit se faire opérer de l’appendicite et un très petit extrait d’un concert. Il y a possibilité de voir ce documentaire avec des sous titres en anglais (mais malheureusement pas en français).
Un diaporama nous montre des photos promos pour Remagine.
  C’est un DVD sympathique mais pas marquant.

  Aurélie (Arwen)

Enter
Music: Sander Gommans/Joost Van der Broek

Come
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

Come join your inner wonderland
A place of all you don't understand
Come join this labyrinth deep within
The place of all miracles of your mind

Come join the magic, the power that you create
Come be aware it's an illuion you have made

Come join the flow that guides you through a restless mind
Come join the flow that moves the night

You've passed the gates now, the door to inner wonderland
you've passed the gates made to create the borders of your dream

Come enter further, do you dare?
Come face the hell you daily bear
Come pass the borders of what's real
Come touch and see and feel

Come join the flow that guides you through a restless mind
Come join the flow that moves the night

Come join this flow
Come join us, all here within your mind
Come join the magic, your body is weightless
You roam and you are anyone you can be
Come join this flow
Come join us all, here beyond your mind

As you enter this inner flow, your second part begins
And while the night enbraces you, you deal with the day

Come join the flow that guides you through a restless mind
Come join the flow that moves the night

Boundaries are open
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen/Bas Maas

I see clearly all my dreams
(you can imagine your whole life)
I know chance is always near
(with a mind full of conceit)
Make my own reality
(do you even know the truth)
just imagine

Boundaries are open

Cause you cannot control this
(dreams keep slipping from my hands)
My reality differs from yours
(I must do just what I feel)
The power of imagination is strong
(keep trying, again and again)
So we only try to imagine

Will the force be so strong it will control one's mind?
Will this power delude or widen the madness that renders blind?
So the frontiers of our conceit
then will become indistinct to vanish in thin air

Boundaries are open
But don't believe it's real

So does faith have roots in imagination?
Who is right in the grim and endless fight for revelation?
I cannot tell what's right or wrong
For we all dwell in imaginary borderland

Boundaries are open
But don't believe it's real
(x2)

Living Shields
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

Weak and frightend
Paralyzed and naked
they are children running for their lives
Lives are taken
Terrorists mistaken for they use the young ones
as refined living shields

Pain and deep fear
Hostage in an ancient rage between people torn by their ideals
Willing to die, willing to kill
Hopeless and blind in their world where innocence dies

Weak and frightend
Paralyzed and naked
they are children running for their lives
Lives are taken
Terrorists mistaken for they use the young ones
as refined living shields

Rage and deep hate
Isolated in an ancient war with people not so different from you
Willing to fight, willing to try to win an endless battle of pride
while innocents die

And then we see them running
See the world is watching this
And we can only try to understand what causes it
And then we see the living
See then crying for their dead
Are we the ones to understand how crazy pain can get

Some people turn in circles
They can never break it through
Some people lost their lives before they died
and now they want it back!

Loss and deep grief
Engulfed in an ever present pain, ancient in practice

Weak and frightend
Paralyzed and naked
they are children running for their lives
Lives are taken
Terrorists mistaken for they use the young ones
as refined living shields

Being Everyone
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

Who am I at night when my eyes are closed tight?
Who am I, and where when eyes see far beyond?
Every border, every dream?
Every hidden memory?
Every nightmare, truth or dare, who do I see now?

Look at me, tell me what you see
Are we just being everyone?

Where am I, tell me what should go, what should stay
Where am I, where am I? And where shall I go tonight?
Every night a different theme
Every time you're in a different dream
Am I me there?
What am I?
Who will I be now?

Look at me, tell me what you see
Are we just being everyone?

Look at me, tell me what you see
Are we being everyone?

I cry, I fall
I love, I hate
I know many, though no face ever stays
I breathe, I fly
I kill, I die
Though there's nothing that I know
No one can recall where I have been or who I was

Look at me, tell me what you see
Are we just being everyone? (x2)

Look at me, tell me what you see
It's me, being everyone.

Attendance
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

Beauty and destruction
Pride and honour
Freedom, elimination
Speek out loud, Hide

Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sights
You can always tell we never learned, we'll never learn

Blindness and silence
No one dares
Action and reprisal
Raise your voice, die

Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sights
You can always tell we never learned, we'll never learn

Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sights
You can always tell we never learned, we never will

Oh how will the earth be; seen for the first time?
Oh how will the earth feel; Touched for the first time?

Entwine and Iconize
Passion ignites
Suspicion and betrayal
the voice of violence speaks again

Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sights
You can always tell we never learned, we'll never learn

Now enter, here is our dreamworld
View the splendid sights
You can always tell we never learned, we never will

Free of Doubt
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

Who do I see?
Mirror let me know
You can't know me in the way I do
Can you see how I feel? I look different every day
I appear in many ways

Mirror please
show my reflection
Free of doubt
the naked truth

It goes deeper
Do you dare to know
What is hidden?
What's behind the superficial and external look
that no eyes will ever see

Mirror please
show my reflection
Free of doubt
the naked truth

Oh, mirror please
show my reflection
Free of doubt
the naked truth

Free of test and youth...

Mirror please
show my reflection
Free of doubt
the naked truth

Oh, mirror please
show my reflection
Free of doubt
the naked truth

Only Everything
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

Couloured chambers, Fine illusions, or a gate to space
Endless stairways, fine delusions, all under my command
I'd change the sky to paint it red
I'd change the colours of life, and play with time
It's all mine!
It's only everything, all that I wanted to be
Cause it's only everything

And wise, wiser than time, wiser than life, wiser than me, only me...

This is the end of all reason, the inner mirror reveals
There's more beyond what you're sure of, the fantasy of dreams
It's always there, the only emotion we all seem to keep down
There, while exploring dimensions
There is more, only everything

Dream! As bright or dark, as warm or hard the mind is set on
Dream! You lose control, you loose your freedom to confine it

I don't want to see this, I don't want this pain I never knew before

Feel, we're on the loose
Impressions are enlarged

I don't want to hear this, I don't want to dream to feel this again
Or to get a taste

This could be the end of all reason, the inner mirror reveals
There's more beyond what you're sure of, the fantasy of dreams
It's always there, the only emotion we all seem to keep down
There, still exploring dimensions
There is more, only everything

Become me, come feel alog with all you see
Controll me, control the keys
Do you dare to be
So deep, will you surrender now to your sleep?
Re-live your daydreams and
Come join this inner wonderland
Come let every emotion stand
To be right under your command
To let out fantasies
To change them into mysteries
Where time loses all memories
To luck and bitter agony
Re-live your daydreams awake
So join the magic of your life
Just dare to take the inner drive
To see it's only everything you can be doing tonight

Dream! as cool or hot, as smooth or rough the mind's creating
Dream! Enjoy the ride, enjoy the boundless journey you can make

I can be the maker, I can be the queen of time and twisted games

See you're on the loose
Images enlarged

I will need no reason
I just need the mirror inside me to reveal what's down below

This must be the end of all reason, the inner mirror reveals
There's more beyond what you're sure of, the fantasy of dreams
It's always there, the only emotion we all seem to keep down
There, while exploring dimensions
There is more, only everything

Strong
Music: Sander Gommans/Joost Van der Broek/Floor Jansen
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

I see your pain I see it grow
slowly inside you
You cannot control it
The hurting's ruthless, you cannot win

I see every smile you fake
Strong emotion, strong devotion to ignore the pain
To stand strong

Day after day, to be there for us, always
To pretend there's nothing wrong
How you feel or how it feels
No words describe it
Your bory feels like a stranger
We cannot stop it, we cannot win

I see every smile you fake
Strong emotion, strong devotion to ignore the pain
To stand strong

I see every smile you fake
Strong emotion, strong devotion to ignore the pain
to stand strong

Every painful day, I'll be there for you, always
And together we will stand strong

Face your demons
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

Jack in a box and here I am
You're favourite mirror and your only honest reflection and your guide
I am you deepest fear, the one you'll always hear
I am the devil in disguise, I am your dream

I am the sneaky connection to your most devlish reflection
The scary imagination of the real you

I represent what you deny
You're never scared so why are you running away
from the temptation of my words
Oh you don't know what I could do for you
Or I could put you through..
And you don't really understand that only fear leads this game

Face your demons
Hear that inner voice
It calls, it cries for you
Just listen well
I'm the one who'll tell terrifying, scary, dreadful tales

You'd better listen
That's some free advice
So what scares you the most
Let me know, be a good host
I want to tell you how your fear looks and how to play this game

Face your demons
Hear that inner voice
It calls, it cries for you
Just listen well
I'm the one who'll tell terrifying, scary, dreadful tales

War is breaking loose, it cannot be stopped
Cars are racing by and you're getting crushed
Friends are dying slow with a lot of pain
You just fear it all

Bleeding from a wound that you cannot see
And you're seeing things that can never be
God is not made up and he wants revenge
You just fear it all
Fear
You just fear, you can only fear
Face your demons

So did you know that all your memories
Color all you'll ever be in a dark and misty cloud that I am floating on
I'm still the voice that speaks inside your head
The demon under your bed
I'm still the one who haunts your soul with devlish lust for fright

Face your demons
Hear that inner voice
It calls, it cries for you
Just listen well
I'm the one who'll tell scary, dreadful tales

Face your demons
Hear that inner voice
It calls, it cries for you
Just listen well
I'm the one who'll tell terrifying, scary, dreadful tales

No Control
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen

I fight
I sweat
I drag the whole world along
I care
I break
I'm spiritless but strong
My will stands strong
I ache for inspirational and additional hearts to help me fight

Deep in my mind lies the map of my destiny
Deep in my heart lies the strength to conquer myself

In your nightmares
In your dreams lies the deepest fear
In ambitions
In belief lies the deepest strength

I doubt
Don't care
Don't see what has ever driven me
A wall
Will stand
All rending thoughts can't end
I'm paralyzed but strong
In need of comprihensible but sensational plans to fight

Deep in my mind lies the map of my destiny
Deep in my heart lies the strength to conquer myself

Forever
Music: After Forever
Lyrics: Floor Jansen/Bas Maas

Dead Girl:
I can see your pain
I can feel your loss
I can hear your words
I can but you are out of reach and so am I

Man:
You and me living in a dream
This end could not have been foreseen
The pain won't go away

No one understands my grief
All I've got is my belief
Still mis you every day

Dead girl:
I can't heal your pain
I cannot return, I cannot reply
I can't since you are out of reach and so am I

Man:
There is nothing left to be
You were all the world to me
The pain won't go away

No more reason to survive
Why am I the one alive
I miss you every day

Dead girl:
You know I am beyond reach forever

Man:
All these emotions create deeper oceans to drown in
My aspirations became unimportant once you were gone
Now the repression of all my agression is hounding me
And all our devotion to love and each other
Burried with you, Dead!

Bridge:
I feel the same tormenting pain
Don't stay behind so bitter

Dead Girl:
I have paid enough
I would have dries your tears if I could
I would be at your side
I would be there, forever more, that never came

Man:
I pay in pain
You have left me alone
My tears can't dry, I need you
Forever more, that never came

Dead Girl:
I'll love you always
Love me forever!