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ZumoDeMelotocon - 21.12.2007 at 06:20
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Your first review, really? Nice job, keep it up  |
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Written by Guest on 21.12.2007 at 06:20
Your first review, really? Nice job, keep it up
Thx, yeah it is my first  |
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Good review...
IMO, this is absolutely the best Epica album... great music indeed! |
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duyhung - 21.12.2007 at 22:13
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| They have improved a lot recently, this album is really a masterpiece, i don't see any boring song here... And one of the most amazing points of The Divine Conspiracy is the drums part by Arien of God Dethroned.., this guy is a genius! |
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Written by Guest on 21.12.2007 at 22:13
And one of the most amazing point of this album is the drums part by Arien of God Dethroned.., this guy is a genius!
And he is their full-time drummer now. So that is great news for Epica fans. So, he is a busy man drumming as full member in two bands now. |
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duyhung - 21.12.2007 at 22:23
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 21.12.2007 at 22:14
Written by Guest on 21.12.2007 at 22:13
And one of the most amazing point of this album is the drums part by Arien of God Dethroned.., this guy is a genius!
And he is their full-time drummer now. So that is great news for Epica fans. So, he is a busy man drumming as full member in two bands now.
Awesome!!  Isn't it time to edit their profile page?  |
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Written by Guest on 21.12.2007 at 22:23
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 21.12.2007 at 22:14
Written by Guest on 21.12.2007 at 22:13
And one of the most amazing point of this album is the drums part by Arien of God Dethroned.., this guy is a genius!
And he is their full-time drummer now. So that is great news for Epica fans. So, he is a busy man drumming as full member in two bands now.
Awesome!! Isn't it time to edit their profile page?
I just checked the profile page and Ariën is already mentioned there as a regular band member, so someone already edited it, apparently/ |
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 Pétur - 22.12.2007 at 02:54
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| great album, the more I listen to it the better it becomes. |
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Written by Pétur on 22.12.2007 at 02:54
great album, the more I listen to it the better it becomes.
Yeah I agree |
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| This album is quite good I must say,I checked it thanks to these comments and review. Was never interested in those female fronted bands but oh well... |
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| Nice review for one or probably "the" best Epica's album. |
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| Just read the funniest thing in the latest Terrorizer live review of Epica. They were compared to Nightwish musically. What? Was the reviewer DEAF, okay I can understand Epica being compared to old After Forever musically but totally not to Nightwish. The only thing Nightwish and Epica have in common is a female vocalist. |
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 27.12.2007 at 12:45
Just read the funniest thing in the latest Terrorizer live review of Epica. They were compared to Nightwish musically. What? Was the reviewer DEAF, okay I can understand Epica being compared to old After Forever musically but totally not to Nightwish. The only thing Nightwish and Epica have in common is a female vocalist.
haha..yeah, you dont need much, as long as a female is the frontsinger they are compared. lol
But yeah, there have nothing in common. |
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Duy Hung - 28.12.2007 at 13:33
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 27.12.2007 at 12:45
Just read the funniest thing in the latest Terrorizer live review of Epica. They were compared to Nightwish musically. What? Was the reviewer DEAF, okay I can understand Epica being compared to old After Forever musically but totally not to Nightwish. The only thing Nightwish and Epica have in common is a female vocalist.
Lol i think i've read that, they said something like " ... heavier Nightwish ", didn't they? |
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Written by Guest on 28.12.2007 at 13:33
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 27.12.2007 at 12:45
Just read the funniest thing in the latest Terrorizer live review of Epica. They were compared to Nightwish musically. What? Was the reviewer DEAF, okay I can understand Epica being compared to old After Forever musically but totally not to Nightwish. The only thing Nightwish and Epica have in common is a female vocalist.
Lol i think i've read that, they said something like " ... heavier Nightwish ", didn't they?
I'll quote what it said:
But there's an underlying element of trying desperately to see them for their music and not their singer, as hard as you try you can't escape that they're a sub-par, albeit heavier Nightwish. Great while the FInns were on hiatus but now they're back who wants to bet Epica secretly shitting themselves?
I know they answer to that last question: No, they're not? |
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| this album is the best of epica simone sings better than ever and the symphonic orchestration is awesome |
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Mark Jansen continues his symphonic metal revolution
perhaps the best yet (since Decipher) |
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Ernis - 15.08.2008 at 00:58
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| A thorough and fine review about a very strong album....the only thing I'd like to remark would be that Epica has got very little or almost nothing to do with gothic style....gothic style, that's Fileds Of The Nephilim, Christian Death, Gothic Sex etc....you can find strong gothic elements in Beseech, Tristania and Mandragora Scream....But Epica is just pure symphonic metal...and they have developed this style to its purest and best quality form....for sure one of the strongest symphonic acts of our time.... |
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Written by Ernis on 15.08.2008 at 00:58
A thorough and fine review about a very strong album....the only thing I'd like to remark would be that Epica has got very little or almost nothing to do with gothic style....gothic style, that's Fileds Of The Nephilim, Christian Death, Gothic Sex etc....you can find strong gothic elements in Beseech, Tristania and Mandragora Scream....But Epica is just pure symphonic metal...and they have developed this style to its purest and best quality form....for sure one of the strongest symphonic acts of our time....
I'm absolutely agree with you, Epica shows a pure and excellent symphonic metal (by the hand of Mark Jansen). The Divine Conspiracy is a piece of art...
PS. congratulations to Princ_Of_Horror... keep writing!! |
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| Epica wonderful album of songs and especially The Obsessive Devotion |
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Nowdays is very difficult to maintain a certain level of quality and creativity in this kind of music, but this band is not an example of lacking such values. Instead they keep presenting us pure magical symphonic Metal, with a voice so beautiful of Simone Simons contrasting with the brutal growls of Mark Jansen. The album is very constant and all the songs are equal in terms of quality. But we always have a favourite song, and mine from this album is "Fools Of Damnation", Killer Song indeed.
Stay Metal |m| |
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| Yeah the song Fools of Damnation is great |
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| Good review. Also nice the Fear Factory cover |
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| Awesome album, you just gotta love it Beautiful vocals, choirs plus some cruel, deep growls...pretty original staff. I also realy like drums, which are very diverse comparing to most of other symphonic metal bands. Of course the orchestral parts and keyboards makes the whole atmopshere breath taking. |
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| These guys along with Therion keep the symphonic metal genre to its roots! one of the best combinations of classical music with metal.. |
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 GT - 14.11.2009 at 15:46
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 28.12.2007 at 13:49
Written by Guest on 28.12.2007 at 13:33
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 27.12.2007 at 12:45
Just read the funniest thing in the latest Terrorizer live review of Epica. They were compared to Nightwish musically. What? Was the reviewer DEAF, okay I can understand Epica being compared to old After Forever musically but totally not to Nightwish. The only thing Nightwish and Epica have in common is a female vocalist.
Lol i think i've read that, they said something like " ... heavier Nightwish ", didn't they?
I'll quote what it said:
But there's an underlying element of trying desperately to see them for their music and not their singer, as hard as you try you can't escape that they're a sub-par, albeit heavier Nightwish. Great while the FInns were on hiatus but now they're back who wants to bet Epica secretly shitting themselves?
I know they answer to that last question: No, they're not?
Just read this and like you I find that comment hilarious. I like Nightwish no doubt about that, but comparing the two bands are like comparing...well two things you can't compare
...and calling them sub-par? Wtf. If anything par it must be above-par (if that term exist) |
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Masterpiece! 10
Comparing this to Nightwish is a joke!
Epica is so far better than those guys that is a crime making a sentence like that |
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I like Epica much more than Nightwish.
I suppose you could say they're a "heavier version" of Nightwish, due to the [usually] heavier/faster drumming, generally faster song tempo, rather common death growls, etc.
As far as singing ability, I think Simmons and Turunen are about equivalent... they sing in the same vocal range also [mezzo-soprano].
And I give this album a 10/10, of course. |
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