The Gathering release Echoes of Mandylion live album
The Gathering’s Echoes of Mandylion captures the Mandylion lineup’s 2025 reunion shows with Anneke van Giersbergen.
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AI-assisted archival editorial illustration based on Erik Luyten’s 2006 photograph of Anneke van Giersbergen. It does not depict the 2025 reunion concerts. Full credits and CC BY-SA 2.0 terms below.
The Gathering have released Echoes of Mandylion, a 16-track live album drawn from five shows at Doornroosje in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It arrived on October 12, 2026.
Recorded August 27–31, 2025, the performances reunited the lineup that made Mandylion, with Anneke van Giersbergen on vocals. The set includes the entire 1995 album, plus songs such as “Travel” and “Saturnine.”
A reunion that kept going
Van Giersbergen spent thirteen years fronting The Gathering before beginning her solo career in 2007. Her official biography describes the anniversary concerts as five sold-out shows whose response led to more concerts and festival appearances around the world in 2026.
That continuing live activity gives the release its wider context: listeners can return to the opening chapter of a reunion that has since expanded beyond the Netherlands.
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