Epica

[Dream Thief]

Didn't I buy you a beer on Friday??

I think that mean the beers are on you!!! Don't you be forgetting this.

 

[Stormwarrior]

Didn't I buy you a beer on Friday??

I think that mean the beers are on you!!! Don't you be forgetting this.

Sorry i have totally forgotton what you said!!!!!

 

[chazzyf]

From Blabbermouth

EPICA Win Holland's ESSENT Award - Nov. 19, 2003

Holland's EPICA (formerly SAHARA DUST), the new group formed by ex-AFTER FOREVER guitarist Mark Jansen, ex-CASSIOPEIA guitarist Ad Sluijter and keyboardist Coen Janssen, have won the Dutch "Essent Award".

"This award is meant to give young promising bands some extra support in developing their talent," reads a post on the band's web site. "This means EPICA will be playing on the Noorderslag festival in January and will also be appearing on the '2 Meter Sessies' program by Jan Douwe Kroeske (not to mention the €5000 accompanied with all of this!). Of course we are very glad with this honor (this being our first award)and we want to thank all our fans for their support!!!"

EPICA's debut album, "The Phantom Agony", was recorded at Gate Studio in Wolfsburg, Germany under the expert guidance of the renowned producer and technician Sascha Paeth (RHAPSODY, KAMELOT, ANGRA) and was released in June through Transmission Records.

The group, which is completed by vocalist Simone Simons, ex-CASSIOPEIA drummer Jeroen Simons, and ex-AXAMENTA bassist Yves Huts, worked with Norwegian singer Helena Michaelsen (ex-TRAIL OF TEARS) during its embryonic stage before settling on Simons, a classically trained opera singer whose style is said to perfectly complement the complex, progressive nature of the band's material.

 

[chazzyf]

Epica On TotalRock Posted Thursday, 20 November, 2003

Dutch operatic metalheads Epica are to be the special guests on the next edition of ‘Lizard’s Viking Hordes’. Tune in from 9pm to midnight (UK time) to hear the popular band’s very first interview with a British radio station – and see whether Lizard can avoid the temptation of mentioning chocolate!

http://www.totalrock.com/

Friday 21st Nov, 2003 9PM -midnight (GMT)
Excellent news! Way to go Karen!

 

[Joe5now]

I've never heard Epica... a shame because I think they sound like exactly my sort of thing. I will go see if I can get some off the site now or something. Then it's onto albums... though the only Epica album I've ever seen is Kamelots' :-/ I will make efforts to buy and here's another vote because that lady is pretty damn nice!

and a vote for more women in metal, why aren't there more?

 

[zinescene]

If you can't wait to see them you can always go to the Piorno Festival in Spain in February. They've got a killer lineup which includes Epica, Cage, Evergrey, Kamelot, Iron Savior, Fintroll, Moonspell, Sepultura, Vanden Plas, Destruction, Dark Funeral, Battlelore (awesome band that reminds me of Samael) Amon Armarth and more....now THAT"S a killer lineup.

They have a link at http://www.piornorock.com/inglesmarco.html (english version).

John

 

[sal666]

I agree..... its just too bloody far way!!!

On the up side..... I received my Epica parcel today with both copies of the single, and the After Forever EP too.....

 

[chazzyf]

I agree..... its just too bloody far way!!!

On the up side..... I received my Epica parcel today with both copies of the single, and the After Forever !! EP too.....

Would that be courtesy of Transmission Records by any chance - I know that they sent out stuff for review - I got the Epica Ep to review, but missied out on the AF single *darn it*

I ordered 2 copies of the supposedly 'Ltd Ed' Epica single separately and received 2 'normal copies' in the mail this morning *double darn* - which means I know have 3 copies of it.

When is your mate going to start shipping those Exordium singles you encouraged us to buy from his site?

 

[sal666]

I got my Exordium yesterday, and i know he shipped them all at the same time..... so any time now

And I got the Ltd edition Epica from him cos I asked him nicely!!! You don't think Transmission would have given me anything would they (after all i do for them!!!)

 

[chazzyf]

I got my Exordium yesterday, and i know he shipped them all at the same time..... so any time now

OK I'll beleive you Its just I'm going to Paris this weekend and I was thinking of picking up another copy there (is the French version any different?)

And I got the Ltd edition Epica from him cos I asked him nicely!!! You don't think Transmission would have given me anything would they (after all i do for them!!!)

Well, as I understand it, Transmission, don't like sending anything outside of Holland.