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segunda-feira, 19 de março de 2012

Curiosidades sobre os Epica

CURIOSIDADES

Em poucos anos, os Epica não apenas se colocaram numa das posições de maior relevo no mundo do metal gótico female fronted, como construiu um sólido e invejável legado de álbuns. «Requiem For The Indifferent» é o mais recente desse legado, acrescentando intensidade, complexidade e arranjos orquestrais mais… épicos à sonoridade da banda, eis aqui algumas curiosidades acerca deles:


* Simone, no dia 3 de Julho de 2008 participou no Ópera Rock Equilibrio, uma junção da banda de metal holandesa XYSTUS e a mais antiga orquestra sinfónica da Holanda, a US Concert, que foi lançado em DVD/CD.

* A canção Linger é fruto do fim da relação de Simone Simons e Mark Jansen.





* Em 2005, os Epica em Curitiba, Simone teve um ataque de risos em The Phantom agony... Sempre que tentava cantar começava a rir, então o público começou a cantar por ela


* Os Epica gravaram músicas para um filme " The Legend of Troisvierges ", numa das cenas inclusive podes ouvir " Sensorium " durante vários segundos. O Filme é baseado numa série de assassinatos de jovens mulheres na Espanha e Itália...


Quando duas amigas Chantal e Rose estão numa festa ... a "gótica excêntrica" Joy "convida as duas para uma viagem de carro. O destino é Troisvierges, uma vila francesa onde na idade média três virgens assassinaram num ritual uma vítima masculina.
A intenção de Joy de recriar a lenda.  É descoberta pelas duas raparigas quando descobrem que o carro da viagem não é só roubado como o dono está trancado no porta bagagens.

TRAILLER DO FILME



A road thriller wherein three young girls steal a classic car, kidnap its handsome young driver and head off for a supermodel competition in Nice. It’s a holiday to die for, until someone does.

Three young women, Chantal, Rose and Joy steal a classic cabriolet and head off for the annual talent search for supermodels in Nice. Midway through the trip, it’s revealed that Joy has kidnapped the 22-year-old Tim, who all the while has been riding along unconscious in the trunk. Inspired by the medieval Legend of Troisvierges, in which three virgins kill a man to seal their friendship, Joy has hatched a secret plan to involve Rose and Chantal as accomplices in Tim’s murder in order to seal their allegiance as friends forever. The other girls are enraged yet realize that their only choice is to cooperate or face prison sentences. In the course of the joyride, a friendship develops between Joy and Tim, which causes Joy to reconsider the plot she’s set in motion. It’s then that she discovers that there’s no way back, but Chantal is determined to carry out the murder as planned





* Simone Johanna Maria Simons iniciou  seus estudos musicais ainda na infância, aos dez anos de idade, quando passou a assistir a aulas regulares de flauta, instrumento musical que pratica até os dias de hoje. Algum tempo depois passou a frequentar aulas também de canto popular, estudando o repertório vocal jazz... Em 2000, aos quinze, ouviu pela primeira vez a banda de metal sinfônico finlandesa Nightwish, mais especificamente o álbum Oceanborn, apaixonando-se pela voz da cantora lírica Tarja Turunen. Com o fim de se aprimorar ainda mais como intérprete, começou a se dedicar ao estudo do canto lírico. A tradição coral também se fez chave-mestra na formação musical de Simone. Em 2002, integrou o elenco, como coral, de um grupo coral holandês, onde manteve ainda mais contacto com o repertório erudito vocal



* Antes de o grupo se chamar Epica o nome era Sahara Dust.




* Em 2003, ainda intitulada Sahara Dust, lançou a demo Cry for the Moon. No mesmo ano o nome da banda mudou para Epica ("Epica é um lugar do universo onde nós podemos encontrar as respostas para as mais importantes perguntas sobre a vida. A maioria de nossas letras é parecida com o significado de Epica. E os Kamelot acabavam de gravar seu álbum intitulado Epica. Nós adorámos o título. A maioria dos membros, incluindo eu, adora ouvir Kamelot. Então decidimos mudar o nome para Epica". - Simone Simons), inspirado no álbum homônimo da banda Kamelot e em junho a banda lança seu primeiro álbum designado por The Phantom Agony com 9 faixas em que se destacam Cry For the Moon, Feint e The Phantom Agony. O álbum conta uma fortíssima influência da música árabe, nítida na faixa Seif al Din. Os vocais são divididos entre a belíssima mezzo-soprano Simone Simons e a voz gutural de Mark Jansen. A participação de oito vozes compondo o coral atribui um aspecto grandioso, especialmente na faixa de abertura Adyta, cantada em latim. A sétima faixa intitulada Run for a Fall escrita por Mark Jansen, disserta sobre sua saída do After Forever. Façade of Reality aborda os atentados de 11 de Setembro, incluindo um trecho com declarações de Tony Blair.



* A vocalista Simone Simons é classificada como Mezzo-Soprano.

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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 ...