It’s unlike anything the band has done before, but it is a job well done. With the spoken words in between it’s kind of like a (dark) fairytale, but I think that was exactly what they were going for. Simone really let’s her vocal range be heard. I can see this song being absolute fun song to jump to during a live performance. The lyrics and melody will get stuck in your head after just one listen. This is by far the catchiest Epica song ever. I also love the choir in the middle part. It’s a very fast paced song and a great head banging song. Mark and Simone are singing thought the entire song, but the grunts stand out the most in this song. But a short summary: I didn’t like the song the first time I heard it and it took me a while to listen to it, but now I totally love it. I have already written an entire review on this song. It’s has a nice choir chorus that you can sing along to. I am sure that it will be played live, because it has a nice feel to it that will work very well live. There is not much I can say about this song. It gets broken down in the middle by Simone’s enchanting voice and then Mark blasts though it. It doesn’t come as a surprise that this was made into a single. It was certainly a lot easier to listen to. This song was the second song from this album that we got to hear. I will have a chat about this with Mark one day. I do hear a part in the intro that has a striking resemblance to the soundtrack of Inception and I am not sure if this intentional or pure coincidence. I have said this before and I will do so again: After that comes in the choir very subtly and that quickly builds up the anticipation of what is to come. From the first notes you know that something Epic is about to go down. Hans Zimmer would even be jealous of this. This is probably the most cinematic and bombastic Epica intro song. I am waiting for the earbook of this album to study the lyrics. I did not go into the lyrics, because I have not had the time to pay much attention to them yet. The album sounds enormous and it is almost like one big Epic soundtrack that you will not easily forget. The album is much heavier than ever before and ALL the typical Epica elements can be heard, but multiplied by ten.
Mark Jansen said that this time they wanted to make songs that all could work live and I think they have succeeded. Let me do this track by track as each track is different, but each one is just as strong as the previous and the next. This album is a concept that we could be living in one big giant hologram. The previous record was all about the mind and the mystery around it. I am not even going into the lyrics and sound just yet, but just the hard work and commitment is very noticeable.Īnd now moving on to the content of the record. The music quality keeps getting better and better. You really can tell that Epica has grown over the years. Especially after the previous recode, The Quantum Enigma, which is really-really good, but this one is just as good AND maybe even better. Having said that… The Holographic Principle IS one of Epica’s best records!Įach record I wonder how they can even top themselves. Usually I go “OMG this is the best album EVER” right after one week, but I can be bias and go into ultra-fan-mode. I decided not to write anything about it until I have listened to it for a while. It’s been exactly a month since Epica released their seventh album “ The Holographic Principle”.
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