EPICA
I've previously said that all Epica sound is the same, and it kind of still is, but what I marvel about is their consistency in proving high quality and catchy material with so many 70-minute-plus albums to their credit. However, a lyric video was released instead, which features footage originally filmed for the music video. Any review of Epica is going to bring forth a comparison with Nightwish, and I found myself doing exactly the same thing throughout.
While the bonus tracks are not prog, they really showcase how great Simone Simons' voice sounds. The album's single 'Unchain Utopia' is a rather interesting choice for a single. The Fifth Guardian interlude is a very nice outfit in mellow style that represents a reasonable break after full blast of metal music from prior tracks.
EPICA - Other tracks, like the title track that closes the album come close to this, but only the one really impresses me. The album was produced by Joost van den Broek and recorded in the Sandlane Recording Facilities in The Netherlands.
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Lastly, this album seems to be their proggiest yet. With an epic choir adding to the bands epic sound, the songs real highlight is the chorus which shows off some very impressive vocals from Simone. Still under the name Sahara Dust, they produced a two-song entitled Cry for the Moon in 2002. Recorded last March in front of thousands of ecstatic fans at Klokgebouw Bell Building in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, the three-hour concert which included accompaniment from the seventy piece Extended Rem'nyi Ede Chamber Orchestra and The Miskolc National Theatre Choir was a very special night indeed. It's a very nice melodic mellow track where the drums are not typical double pedal speed tempo as this is a slow track.