.: Epica Interview at SoundShock.com

terça-feira, 7 de fevereiro de 2012

Epica Interview at SoundShock.com

Nesta sexta-feira passada ( 03/02/2012 ), a banda Epica lançou um de seus novos singles, “Storm The Sorrow”, em formato digital.

A música pertence ao álbum “Requiem For The Indifferent”, que será lançado no dia 09 de março na Europa, via Nuclear Blast Records.

Segundo o grupo, a faixa foi uma escolha óbvia para o primeiro single já que possui todos os ingredientes do estilo dos Epica, mas com “groove” bem cativante sem perder o peso que os retrata . A letra fala sobre como lidar com as críticas .

Para baixar o single com a arte da capa, acesse:

http://www.itunes.com/epica

O primeiro teaser para o novo álbum do EPICA, "Requiem For The Indiferente", pode ser visto em baixo

Comentário da banda: "Aqui estamos com o primeiro teaser oficial. Desta vez, estamos fazendo algo que ninguém fez antes, a cada semana vamos mostrar uma pequena amostra das músicas, dando aos nossos fãs uma visão um pouco mais complexa e diferente da música do Epica".

"Como este é o primeiro vídeo da série, você só vai ouvir Arien (Van Weesenbee) na bateria. No entanto, nas próximas sete semanas, vamos adicionar camada por camada, e divulgar mais samples. Através destes vídeos vamos colocar também fotos do backstage, pedaços da capa do álbum, atualizações de digressão, etc, para deixar a espera do novo álbum mais toleravel!"

"Requiem For The Indiferente" será lançado no dia 9 de março na Europa e quatro dias depois na América do Norte via Nuclear Blast Records. O CD foi gravado no Gate Studio, em Wolfsburg, Alemanha, sob o olhar atento de Sascha Paeth.

"Requiem For The Indifferent" track listing:

01. Karma
02. Monopoly On Truth
03. Storm The Sorrow
04. Delirium
05. Internal Warfare
06. Requiem For The Indifferent
07. Anima
08. Guilty Demeanor
09. Deep Water Horizon
10. Stay The Course
11. Deter The Tyrant
12. Avalanche
13. Serenade Of Self-Destruction

Faixas Bônus para a América do Norte:

14. Twin Flames (Soundtrack Version)
15. Nostalgia

O vídeo da música "Storm The Sorrow", uma das que compõem o novo álbum da banda, "Requien For The Indiferent". O concerto aconteceu no dia 12 de janeiro de 2012 no Metropool Hengelo, na Holanda.

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Biography of EPICA

Ever since EPICA emerged on the scene, the band has been caught in a whirlwind of studio recordings, interviews, screaming fans, world wide live performances and the rock 'n roll lifestyle. The loss of both a record company and a drummer in 2006 seemed to have stopped the band on their rise to the top. But all is not what it seems. EPICA is back with a mighty new album called 'The Divine Conspiracy', an exiting new chapter in the history of the band.

The Dutch female fronted symphonic metal band EPICA was founded in 2002. Mark Jansen had left After Forever to pursue his own dreams and found that guitar player Ad Sluijter, bass player Yves Huts and keyboard and piano player Coen Janssen shared his vision. Drummer Jeroen Simons and singer Simone Simons completed the band. The band name is derived from an album of Kamelot of whom several band members are big fans and musically EPICA stands out by not only taking influences from the world of rock and (symphonic) metal, but also from film music as composed by the likes of Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer.

Within a few months EPICA had the material to record the stunning debut album 'The Phantom Agony'. The album was released worldwide in 2003 and was followed by a lengthy tour. EPICA's efforts were rewarded in 2004 with an Essent Award (an important Dutch award for talented young bands). While touring continued throughout the year, EPICA recorded and released their second full length album 'Consign To Oblivion' in 2005. The album made it to #12 in the Dutch charts and remained in the Top 100 for 7 weeks. This release also features a guest appearance by Kamelot frontman Roy Khan. With the creative juices flowing, that same year the album 'The Score: An Epic Journey' also saw the light of day. The album consists of the music EPICA wrote for the Dutch movie 'Joyride'. This album is marked by the absence of guitars, drums or even vocals and contains mainly instrumental symphonic songs. After four years of hard work, the band took the time to reflect on the impressive career that took the world by storm. So in 2006 the photo-sound book 'The Road To Paradiso' saw the light of day. It's a detailed description of the band's history in words and images and contains lots of pictures taken by the band members, professional photographers and even hundreds of fans that contributed their best pictures and words. This book comes together with a unique bonus-cd that features unreleased songs, live material and demo recordings.

The year that started on a high ended in a low when drummer Jeroen Simons decided to quit the band. But it's not in the band's nature to be taken aback. After hundreds of shows in dozens of countries all over the world (including the US, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, most European countries, Israel, Tunisia ...) this band had become a well oiled metal machine that is unstoppable. In 2007 EPICA signed a new record deal with Nuclear Blast and the year will see the release of EPICA's third full length album 'The Divine Conspiracy'. "More" is the best word to define this album. More choirs, guitars, grunts, speed and songs. 'The Divine Conspiracy' will be more guitar oriented. This time four guitar tracks were recorded instead of the usual two. Thanks to the skills of talented God Dethroned drummer Arien van Weesenbeek EPICA was able to make faster and more complex songs. As with all of their releases, the music on this album was brought to a higher level by the dream team at the Gate Studio: Sascha Paeth, Amanda Somerville and Miro Rodenberg. This new opus is more than 75 minutes long and is EPICA's first concept album. It deals with the theory that, as a test, God created all kinds of different religions and released those upon humanity to see if they would be able to find the true nature of them. The question is whether mankind can realize that all religions are basically the same. But there's more to it. The album also concludes the 'Embrace That Smothers' concept that could already be found on 'The Phantom Agony', but started on the After Forever-album 'Prison Of Desire'. It seems only fitting that the conclusion of the concept features a guest appearance by After Forever grunter Sander Gommans. The circle has closed, the journey continues ...