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EPICA Launch New Music Video For ‘Universal Love Squad’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 6, 2018
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Dutch symphonic metal giants EPICA have launched a brand new music video for the track ‘Universal Love Squad’. The video was filmed at their recent sold out 1000th Show Anniversary at 013 in Tilburg, Netherlands in front of 3000 ecstatic fans! ‘Universal Love Squad’ shows a different and more intimate side to the band, as it is the acoustic version of another EPICA track entitled ‘Universal Death Squad’, released earlier in 2016 on the album »The Holographic Principle«. In occasion of their 1000th show anniversary, EPICA performed this track for the very first time live, which resulted in this astonishing music video! Watch the new video here:

EPICA’s Mark Jansen (band founder & guitarist) comments:
“At the 1000th show we performed for the first time ever the acoustic version of ‘Universal Death Squad’ which became ‘Universal Love Squad’.  As many fans kept asking us to play something acoustic live, we couldn’t resist any longer. We want to thank our fans from all over the world for all these fantastic shows and hopefully there will be a 1000 more to come! :)”

After two years of literally non-stop touring worldwide, this summer EPICA will perform their last batch of festivals of their current touring cycle! With performances on the legendary Hell & Heaven Festival in Mexico City, Wacken Open Air in Germany or at Slovenia’s magical Metaldays, among other festivals, EPICA will give all metal fans one last party before their well-deserved touring break!

Tickets & info: http://www.epica.nl/tour

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Festival shows of EPICA:
05.05. MX Hell & Heaven Festival
15.06. E Zamora – Z! Live Rock Fest
21.06. N Halden – Tons of Rock
05.07. CH Pratteln – Z7 Open Air (w/ ELUVEITIE, EXCELSIS)
06./07.07. RO Bucharest – Metalhead Meeting
25.07. H Székesfehérvár – Fezen Festival
27.07. SLO Tolmin – Metaldays
03.08. D Wacken – Wacken Open Air
11.08. B Kortrijk – Alcatraz Metal Festival
17.08. CZ Moravský Krumlov – Rock Heart
18.08. A Graz – Metal on the Hill

Order EPICA ‘s latest EP, »The Solace System«, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaSolaceSystem
EPICA Webshop: http://smarturl.it/thesolacesystem
Purchase the digital version or stream the EP, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaDigital

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EPICA Launch New Video For ‘Decoded Poetry’, Currently Touring Latin America

Posted by tarjavirmakari on March 2, 2018
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Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA have launched the video for ‘Decoded Poetry’ which is taken from the band‘s latest EP “The Solace System”. The animated video was created/produced by anime-master Davide Cilloni and completes the video trilogy of EPICA‘s masterful title track ‘The Solace System’ and ‘Immortal Melancholy’, all taken from “The Solace System” EP which was released worldwide in September 2017 via Nuclear Blast. Watch the new video now here:

EPICA‘s Coen Janssen (keys) comments: “It has been a great pleasure working with the talented Davide Cilloni on this unique video trilogy. In this final part we finally find out what will happen to our dimension and if the Universal Death Squad will conquer our planet…. Let‘s hope for the best!! I hope you enjoy this last part as much as I have enjoyed seeing myself as a cartoon haha!”

This Thursday, EPICA kicked off “The Ultimate Principle Tour – Latin America” in Montevideo, Uruguay. On this tour, EPICA will perform 8 dates in Brazil including cities where the band has never performed during their 15-year career, next to additional dates in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The band is excited to perform tracks of »The Holographic Principle« and »The Solace System« for their Latin American fans for the first time.

EPICA guitarist Mark Jansen comments: “We are very happy to announce we are finally returning to Latin America! As I have noticed many fans are so much looking forward to that as well. We are all very excited and can’t wait to party with you guys!!!“

Order EPICA ‘s latest EP, »The Solace System«, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaSolaceSystem
EPICA Webshop: http://smarturl.it/thesolacesystem
Purchase the digital version or stream the EP, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaDigital

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EPICA Announce “The Ultimate Principle Tour – Latin America 2018”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 25, 2017
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Dutch symphonic metal giants EPICA are more than proud to announce their return to Latin America. Upcoming March, the band will finally return to Latin America for the first time since 2015! On this tour, EPICA will perform 8 dates in Brazil including cities where the band has never performed during their 15-year career, next to additional dates in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

The band is excited to perform tracks of “The Holographic Principle” and “The Solace System” for their Latin American fans for the first time.

EPICA guitarist Mark Jansen comments: “We are very happy to announce we are finally returning to Latin America! As I have noticed many fans are so much looking forward to that as well. We are all very excited and can’t wait to party with you guys!!!“

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Tickets + VIP packages will go on sale this Friday and will be available via http://www.epica.nl/tour!

On September 1st, EPICA proudly unleashed their long-awaited EP »The Solace System«. This EP includes six brand new tracks, which were written and recorded during the process of their latest album »The Holographic Principle«, which charted worldwide!

Get your physical copy, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaSolaceSystem
Or from the EPICA webshop, here: http://smarturl.it/thesolacesystem
Purchase the digital versions or stream the songs, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaDigital

EPICA Win Dutch “Metropole Orkest Contest”

Posted by tarjavirmakari on August 5, 2017
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After an intense 6-month voting campaign, Symphonic Metal titans EPICA are honored to announce that they’ve won the contest of Holland’s famous and most prestigious “Metropole Orkest”! Over 650 artists of all possible music genres competed, amongst them popular Dutch acts like WITHIN TEMPTATION, CARO EMERALD and KENSINGTONS, yet it was none other than our dearest Dutch Symphonic Metallers EPICA who pulled the longest straw!

After working with world’s top artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Bono and Dizzy Gillespie, “The Metropole Orkest” is being considered the biggest professional pop and jazz orchestra in the world. Now remarkably, it’s up to our very own Symphonic Metal sextet EPICA to show what they’re made of and who will have the privilege to write and record an EPICA track together with this amazing orchestra.

By winning the “Metropole Orkest Contest”, EPICA has proven once again that they can righteously claim their place among Holland’s top music acts!

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Recently, EPICA proudly announced their upcoming long-awaited EP, »The Solace System«! This record will include six brand-new numbers, which were written and recorded during the process of their latest album »The Holographic Principle«, which came out in late 2016 and charted worldwide. The EP release is due for September 1st, 2017 via Nuclear Blast.

EPICA Announce EP “The Solace System”, Release Music Video

Posted by tarjavirmakari on June 24, 2017
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With their latest masterpiece, EPICA set new standards. 2016’s “The Holographic Principle” is the most epochal, multi-layered, courageous and successful record of the band, reaching top 10 chart position entries in the German, Dutch and Swiss album charts. Accordingly, all the tracks written for the album process are high-quality, but not all songs have been put on the album. “This is only based on the fact that the record should not exceed 76 minutes,” explains Mark. Since the band didn’t like the idea of a double CD, they finally decided to release an EP with six brand-new numbers, which were created during the creative phase of “The Holographic Principle”.

Said and done. Now, EPICA proudly announce their upcoming long-awaited EP, “The Solace System”! It is scheduled to be released on September 1st, 2017 via Nuclear Blast.

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Mark tells about the songs: “The listeners can expect a high-quality EP – with songs that are far too good to use them only as bonus tracks. We wanted to publish these songs together in a context. It is always hard to decide at the end of a recording process which songs will be on the album, because this means that you have to miss some songs with best quality, just because they do not fit quite well into the overall flow of the record or because there are other songs that are more suited to the lyrics”.

So much the better then that EPICA have chosen to publish those songs in an EP. Due to this EP, no one has to miss these damn strong songs that, just like the album, consist from a contrasting versatility, equally opulent, bombastic moments, as well as filigree emotionality!

This is proven in the new music video to the title track ‘The Solace System’, which you can see here:

“The Solace System” was recorded, mixed & mastered by team Joost van den Broek and Jacob Hansen. The video clip was produced by anime-master Davide Cilloni. The splendid artwork is once again by the hand of Stefan Heilemann.

Simone Simons (vocalist) comments on the EP:
“During the early writing process of »The Holographic Principle« we found out that we were blessed with a huge amount of songs. The songs that didn’t fit on our album are now available for you on this special EP! I hope you guys will enjoy these songs as much as we do!”

And if that wasn’t enough, you’ll be also able to purchase the new EP “The Solace System” together with the CD of their recent studio album “The Holographic Principle” as a box set!

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It will be called “The Holographic Principle – The Ultimate Edition”.

The box set “The Holographic Principle – The Ultimate Edition” as well as the EP »The Solace System« are now available for pre-order.
Get your physical copy here: http://nblast.de/EpicaSolaceSystem
Or through the EPICA Webshop: http://smarturl.it/thesolacesystem
Or get the digital version and get the title track ‘The Solace System’ instantly: http://nblast.de/EpicaDigital

And there are some more good news! Nuclear Blast is going to re-release two ancient albums of EPICA, »Design Your Universe« and »The Devine Conspiracy«, on vinyl on August 18th. Each album is available in two different colours, the pre-order has already started last week.

Get those two albums on vinyl, here: http://nblast.de/EpicaSolaceSystem
EPICA webshop: http://smarturl.it/thesolacesystem

METALHEADS FOREVER: May Issue Available, Feat. Interviews With MEGADETH, DARK FORTRESS, EPICA, GOATWHORE, RAVEN And Many More!

Posted by tarjavirmakari on May 10, 2017
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METALHEADS FOREVER, one of the biggest metal entities out there (having today more than 96000 members), led by David Maloney, have posted online their May issue, featuring interviews with MEGADETH, DARK FORTRESS, EPICA, GOATWHORE, RAVEN + several album reviews, and many more!

To read all the interviews and the whole METALHEADS FOREVER May issue, go here: http://www.mhf-mag.com