After Earth Once

• 1 Act 1 (Overture) 02:04
• 2 Awake 04:20
• 3 My Masterpiece 03:41
• 4 The Allure 03:59
• 5 Distorted Smiles 03:52
• 6 The Hour of Eden's Fall 04:46
• 7 Act II (Intermezzo) 02:12
• 8 My Fairytale 03:55
• 9 Phenomena 04:35
• 10 The Sins of Saints 03:58
• 11 Insane Schemes of Sanity 04:31
• 12 The Final Stage 10:18
• 13 Epilogue (A Memento of Our Hiraeth) 05:51
• Total Runtime 58:02

Info for After Earth

ONCE is a band from North Rhine Westphalia (Germany), whose style can be described as symphonic metal. The music of Once is inspired by neo-romantic soundtrack music and includes typical elements of a classical Aristotelian drama, combined with heavy guitars and drums. The band was formed in 2012, when keyboarder Frank Wypchol, lead singer Alina Lesnik, guitarist Marco Paulzen and drummer Alexander Hey decided to create a full orchestrated metal project. In 2013 Once released acoustic versions of their songs "My Fairytale" and "Distorted Smiles", which were recorded and filmed as a university project at the ArtEZ Conservatorium in Enschede/NL. Afterwards Once worked on their demo EP, which was released 2015. Their music video of the single "The Hour Of Eden's Fall" gave a first impression of what is to come with their first full-length studio album "After Earth".

Alina Lesnik, vocals
Marco Paulzen, guitars, bass, grim vocals
Frank Wypchol, keyboards, piano, orchestrations
Alexander Hey, drums

ONCE
We are ONCE, a German symphonic metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 2012 by Alina Lesnik (vocals & lyrics), Frank Wypchol (keys, piano & orchestrations), Marco Paulzen (guitars, bass & grim vocals) and Alexander Hey (drums).

Our music is inspired by neo-romantic soundtrack music and includes typical elements of a classical Aristotelian drama, combined with heavy guitars and drums, entangled in a complex storytelling.

With "After Earth" we want to invite the listener to sit down, to imagine the world we created and to experience it as a piece of art, in which everything is connected and each detail refers to another. We were weaving a story based web out of music, lyrics, artworks and structure and you will find yourself bringing everything together, discovering our music while wandering through the protagonist's story.

In 2017 you already helped us to fund our first music video for the single "The Hour Of Eden's Fall" and now the time has come to continue visualizing the story of "After Earth"!

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