Epica

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Epica's performs a blend of progressive metal, gothic metal, and symphonic metal. Another component of Epica's style is power metal with their guitarist Ad Sluijter describing the band as "a bridge between power metal and gothic metal." Vocalist Simone Simons has expressed a preference for the group to be described as symphonic metal though the founder of the group Mark Jansen notes that they do not mind being called gothic metal.

The music of Epica is aggressive, bombastic and excessive with some songs being "epic, grand and majestic" and others "more subdued and introspective." The band is also known to have progressive tendencies while a gothic atmosphere and sentimentality is also present in their music.

Epica uses a "trademark of many symphonic and gothic metal bands" in contrasting "two extremes, death grunts and brutality on one side, airy female melodiousness on the other." Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic notes that the band's "attraction ultimately hinges on exploring the sonic contrasts of light and dark; the punishing intensity of those elephantine guitar riffs and hyperactive drumming cast against the soaring, layered sweetness of the orchestrated strings and keyboards." Simone Simons delivers operatic vocals in a mezzo-soprano range though she has also been known to sometimes sing "with a clear alto voice that has a flawless tone and a lot of emotion."Mark Jansen delivers death grunts "that are secondary to Simons' singing, but very important in terms of balance and variety."The group is also known to employ human choirs and orchestras with additional embellishments such as spoken word recitals and lyrics in Latin and Arabic.

http://www.epica.nl/
http://www.myspace.com/epica

My favourite band of all time, Simone is awesome vocalist, and they are really talented musicians, they are the best! lol

The Divine (oh yeah i took that smiley only to say that LOL)

I fucking love Epica,as being one of the first femme metal bands I heared.Their music is epic in allthe points,the lyrics,the instruments and the choir fit amaizingly pefectly.And of course Simone`s beautiful voice and look.
As for favorite songs I really can`t choose.My favorite albums could be eighter The Divine ( ) or The Phantom Agony

Only tracks on CtO i like are Consign to Oblivion and Quietus lol

But I think Consign To Oblivion is a great album .Althought I`m quite ashamed to say that I listened to it only about 15 times And I like The Score too

The Score is great

I really like Epica. I've only been a fan a year and a half and I love them. And the fact that they are Dutch just tops it of

My fav band... I love these guys! =)

i wanna have SiSi's babies.

and yes they rule.


and should pop in finland soon again.

I really like Epica. The new song rules however I prefer the older stuff from TPA era. TDC is a killer album though

I cant wait to hear ''Design Your Universe''

Me Too

consign is actually my favorite epica album but i love all there songs i cant think of one that i dislike , maybe that punk cover they just did



oh and does anyone have the new lyrics to living a lie ?

^Nope, but i hope Mark uploads them soon to Epica forums, people have asked for it long time

Btw, Simone's latest Myspace ''feeling'' was, ''working on the cover for the upcoming Epica album''

i saw that i cant freaking wait for the new album

Hell yeah, the newest was

''The cover of new Epica album is looking good''

The cover will be designed by the same guy as The Classical Conspiracy, Heilemania! This means the cover will be awesome, he does also all the best Simone pics

Sorry for triple posting , but Mark just said cool thing in the official forum

''hehe we have about 80 minutes of music so the shitty thing is that we have to skip one song
But that's a luxurious position, better too many (strong) songs than not enough.
Before the recording session we (Sascha was the main ripper) dumped already 4 other songs. A matter of natural selection haha.
Some of these songs maybe appear later on as bonus tracks or will be rewritten for a future release.''

too many songs and cutting weak tracks is always a good thing for a album

^Indeed, i'm really excited of hearing the stuff they have created, Arien has written some stuff to the album, same for Isaac, so i think every bandmember has been part of the writing some way this time, not only Mark

I can' wait for this album as soon as it comes out I'll buy hopefully it will be in Asda the Lacuna Coil was I can't wait

Oh well Epica will be about 90% heavier than LC

hmm definitely lol I hope Epica tour around where I live I once had a dream I say them live I really wish it was true

Oh they dont visit UK too often it's true, there are lot of fans there so i'm sure their visit soon , i hope they come to Finland also!

ooh how about right I go and watch them in Finland with you although thats not gonna happen