Afterwords is an album by the Dutch rock band The Gathering, released via Psychonaut Records on 25 October 2013.

[2] The title track features Bart Smits on vocals, in a clean singing style as opposed to his growling in the band's death-doom debut Always....

Taking the elements from the previous album, the band has rebuilt some of the songs, structurally sounding more or less similar.

"Echoes Keep Growing" is just an extension to "I Can See Four Miles", while "Sleep Paralysis" ("Paralyzed"), "Tuning In, Fading Out" ("Missing Seasons") and "Bärenfels" ("Heroes For Ghosts") are more instrumental versions with a lot of emphasis on electronics.

It also features a New Musik's cover of "Areas" and "Afterwords" with Bart Smits (the first vocalist of the band) on the vocals, both songs which are utterly unnecessary as they don't fit into the dynamics of the album.