Decipher (After Forever album)

Decipher
Studio album by After Forever
Released	27 December 2001 (2001-12-27)
Recorded	June–September 2001
Studio	RS29, Waalwijk, Netherlands
Genre	Symphonic metal gothic metal
Length	54:35
Label	Transmission
Producer	Stephen van Haestregt
After Forever chronology
Prison of Desire (2000) Decipher (2001) Exordium (2003)
Singles from Decipher
"Emphasis" / "Who Wants to Live Forever" Released: 4 April 2002 "Monolith of Doubt" Released: 2002

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Lords of Metal	96/100[2]
Metal Hammer (GER)	[3]
Metal Storm	[4]

Decipher is the second album by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever, released on 27 December 2001. In this album, the band make use of live classical instruments and a complete choir to back up the soprano voice of lead singer Floor Jansen. Thrown in the mix are also a duet of soprano and tenor voices in "Imperfect Tenses" and the recording of the late Israeli PM Yizhak Rabin's voice during the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty signing ceremony in "Forlorn Hope". This is the last After Forever album with guitarist and founder Mark Jansen, who left the band soon after its release.

In 2003, the album was reissued in a limited edition of 5,000 copies worldwide. The limited edition in digipack had an extended booklet, a sticker with new artwork and two live bonus tracks.^[5] It was again reissued in 2012 by the re-financed Transmission Records, this time as a two-disc set containing previously unreleased studio sessions, single edits and a handful of demo recordings.