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The Rock Files
3+ albums
ProgressiverockProgressive metalProgressive rockdutch
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TRF - THE ROCK FiLES A LiFE ON EARTH is a concept album written by Adjan Emmen. It tells the story of life, of birth and desire but also of deep desperation and destruction gradually evolving into healing and hope. This theme is appealing and certainly identifiable for many people. The concept album A LiFE ON EARTH by THE ROCK FiLES has been released ten years after the first songs were written by Adjan. All of his life he has been playing music. In 1990 he passed his exam at the Arnhem Conservatory. He has played in various bands. He is also a guitar teacher. In 2000 he founded the band Omsk with the legendary dutch rock bassplayer Peter Vink (Q65, Finch, Star One, Ayreon). There were several concerts between 2000 and 2003 but the band could never find the right singer and so Omsk fell apart. Peter and Adjan continued to elaborate the songs of Omsk, but when Peter got too busy with another project he set aside his work with these songs. The name of the band THE ROCK FiLES refers to the name of the files Adjan saved his unreleased music in. He still continued to work on these songs from time to time. When singer Jerry ten Bhömer heard of this project he enthusiastically proposed to participate. It turned out that he had the right voice for this kind of music. He and Adjan together renewed the project and Jerry took care of the lyrics. Step by step the separate songs turned into a coherent story in which each song is a chapter on its own. The story holds eleven songs:
