- Through the Looking Glass Aftershock Rock 1999 Preview SONG TIME Prelude To Forever. 7:45 PREVIEW Through the Looking Glass. 3:21 PREVIEW Jabberwocky.
- USA metalcore, Type: Group, Founded: 1992, Dissolved: 2001, Area: United States.
- 'Through the looking glass' (cd) 2000-08-09: Label: Goodlife records ยป Additional informations: Hits: Country: U S A Website: AFTERSHOCK pictures.
Besides an early version of 'Traversing The Gap', which would later be re-recorded for their 'Through The Looking Glass' full-length, AFTeRSHOCK do a cover of Youth Of Today's 'We Just Might' on here. Weird choice perhaps, but they pull it off well, giving the song an AFTeRSHOCK make-over. Aftershock Prelude To Forever lyrics & video: Innocence of a child.child of pure, unclouded brow. Through The Looking Glass / Original. Reciting wonder.
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Through the Looking Glass for the most part has much better quality and production than what Letters offered. Not only the production is of quality but the instruments also sound better, more technical or challenging, the drums are more intriguing and the bass is more audible. As for the vocals, either Tobias or Adam, one of the two have incorporated death growls, so this record isn't just an improvement, but it's also heavier.
This album also features new members of this current and final lineup: the blasting, shredding duo from Killswitch Engage that we (the fans) all know and love; one of them obviously being Adam D., but the other one - and the one that replaced Jonathan Donais after he already helped established Shadows Fall, the 19-year-old Joel Stroetzel joined the band. On drums, and seemingly underrated, Tom Gomes also joined the band during that time and he was also with the band during Killswitch Engage's opus magnum and another blueprint to more modern bands, Alive or Just Breathing. And the bassist, Chris Fortin wasn't exactly a full-time member until the second split (with State Craft) was released with the former bassist, Neil Gadbois. Thought after the second split was released, this lineup was solid up until they finally disbanded in 2004, when they returned live to Japan.
Exactly like Letters, there are four tracks which were bad only with this record, it's the two instrumental tracks: the title track and Awaking the Dream. They both sounded like two fillers that didn't complement the music. As for the other two songs, which are Jabberwocky and Impenetrability, they were both straight up bad and didn't sound as good as the other six songs available on this record (and by six I'm also mentioning the vinyl version of this record, which contains the cover of We Just Might by Youth of Today - originally released on the split with the band Dive).
While this album isn't necessarily bad compared to Letters - and the fact that it has a stellar production, the music sounds great, the instruments are top-notch for the genre, that choice of an album cover - whatever, found it interesting, and that it really roots of the music that Adam D. eventually took with him when he formed Killswitch Engage, it didn't strike me with its power like Letters have. As I said, props to the production, the instruments, and even the atmosphere that features some chorus-effected guitars and bass, Letters was more fulfilling and the riffage alone beats Through the Looking Glass. The best songs are Prelude to Forever, Traversing the Gap, and My Own Invention.