Eat Sleep and Breathe Metal
About ATER MADNESS
Āter started in 1996 as a solo project. It didn't do much because the artist, Wesley Beernaert, often had the opportunity to join touring artists as lead vocalist. Wesley has been joining (full time and as hired artist) bands like Lemuria, Persephone’s Blade, September Syn, Elusion, Fabulae Dramatis and many more. Both as performing, recording and touring artist. Somewhere in 2004 it seemed as if Āter was going to turn into a band, in reality it only left Wesley Beernaert with sesion guitarist Mantorok. They both finished the ep + Wesley wrote some 12 extra songs.... Then the worst happend, a flood... All pc's were broken. Years later while moving Wesley found an old hard drive, broken, and recovered 4 songs, remastered them and replayed the bass and some guitar parts. And there you go. The EP "Vullighied", written in an almost 1000 year old dialect of Flanders. A bonus song was added to the end. The ep was released on most digital platforms (see link below) but the ph
Meanwhile Āter is no longer a solo project. Wesley has had the incredible luck to have had been approached by people way more capable than himself to write songs and record them. This EP has been released because history should not be lost, and it interludes the new Era of Āter as a new band. Expect similar music but with an emphasis on melody x 100, 2 (sometimes 3) guitars instead of one, and goose-bump inducing-melodic riffs. Link to listen to samples and buy the album + info on which platforms "Vullighied" is available:
Physical editions available (with optionla patch, custom band plectrum and stickers) through: Atermadness@gmail.com or through https://www.facebook.com/AterMadness
All my lyrics are written in ancient dialect dutch, specific to my region, it has been spoken for over a 100 years in it’s current form and goes back as far as the 16th century and probably even to the 1300’s. Translating them would be very hard without losing the beauty of the words, so I have decided to just give meaning to them by describing the content in short form. The first track is a song a about a whore, who does not want to be a whore, but has to be so her children can be fed and she can have a life. She allows herself to be "raped" by countless men every night until festering wounds are caused by the abuse and they never go away, this woman is in constant pain but has to endure it. She cries every day, the whole day, because she can't take it anymore but has to do it to meet "end's meet".... the men who do it to her either don't care or aren't aware such situation might exist within prostitution so they just take their pleasure from it. It is a tale of a woman, willingly ta
