The Alchemy Project

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EPICA: 'Victims Of Contingency' Video Released". Blabbermouth.net. 30 October 2014 . Retrieved 2014-10-31. With "The Alchemy Project", EPICA sets another highlight in the band's 20th-anniversary year. Graced by a vivid and witty artwork by graphic wizard Heilemania, visual partner in crime for more that 15 years, EPICA embarks on a journey through seven extraordinary new songs. Co-written and performed with diverse guests ranging from extremists like FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, Niilo Sevänen ( INSOMNIUM) and Björn "Speed" Strid ( SOILWORK) via melodic masters like Tommy Karevik ( KAMELOT),keyboard legend Phil Lanzon ( URIAH HEEP) and Roel Van Helden ( POWERWOLF) to a once-in-a-lifetime song with Simone Simons, Charlotte Wessels and Myrkur, the EPICA members have really outdone themselves once again. The result is a mind-bending EP that even surpasses the usual broad scope of an EPICA record. Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band, founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen after his departure from After Forever. Epica: "Music is always a result of other music". Interview". Metalscript.net. 16 February 2013 . Retrieved 28 November 2013. See also: Amahiru, ex-Sahara Dust, ex-DragonForce (live), ex-Kamelot (live), ex-After Forever (live)

Epica – The Essence Of Silence (OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO)' ". youtube.com (EPICA channel) . Retrieved 2015-08-20. Nuclear Blast Records (2017-06-23), EPICA - The Solace System (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) , retrieved 2017-08-24 The first single from the album was released on August 10, 2007 entitled " Never Enough", accompanied by a music video and the second single, " Chasing the Dragon," was released in 2008 without an accompanying video. On September 16, 2022, the band announced their third EP, The Alchemy Project, a collaborative effort with each song featuring at least one guest artist. It was released on November 11, 2022 via Atomic Fire. [81] It was accompanied by official music videos for the songs "The Final Lullaby" and "Sirens – Of Blood and Water".Comprising seven songs which have been co-written and performed by a range of artists, this EP sees the band divert from their usual symphonic pathway to embrace the opportunities these collaborations provide. But there is also a serious message of cooperation that links the songs. Founder member Mark Jansen explains. “The idea behind this concept is cooperation. In the world of today with all its chaos and challenges we as humanity will need to work together to solve and rise above the problems to create a new world where we can all shine again. We are all connected, and when a part of humanity is suffering, we are all suffering from it”. Epica weren’t joking around when it came to celebrating their twentieth anniversary. In this year alone, they’ve released remastered versions of two hard-to-find live albums from their earliest of days ( We Will Take You With Us and Live at Paradiso), they completed a world tour, and they delivered an excellent livestream of their sold-out twentieth anniversary show featuring opening band Sahara Dust (which is really just Epica under their original name playing some old classics). As 2022 ends, it seems Epica aren’t finished with what has certainly been a flurry of activity. Epica’s final offering of the year comes in the form of the The Alchemy Project, and it's not just some half-baked EP. Their former guitarist Ad Sluijter having described the band as "a bridge between power metal and gothic metal." [99] Vocalist Simone Simons has expressed a preference for the group to be described as symphonic metal [100] though the founder of the group Mark Jansen notes that they do not mind being called gothic metal. [101] Mark Jansen having described the band also as "symphonic death metal" and a bridge between death metal and symphonic metal. [102] [103]

EPICA - EDGE OF THE BLADE (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)' ". youtube.com (EPICA channel) . Retrieved 2017-07-21.

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For all its inherent aesthetic messiness, the charming and surprisingly substantive The Alchemy Project finds Epica absolutely nail the execution. In hindsight, believing that the band wouldn’t go full Epica on the mash-up concept was colossally foolish. Even so, the approach that it takes here isn’t so much a 50/50 split. Rather, it’s Epica taking certain signatures from other bands and working them quite naturally into its very specific brew of symphonic metal. The Miner [feat. Asim Searah (DAMNATION PLAN),Niilo Sevänen (INSOMNIUM),Roel Van Helden (POWERWOLF)] The band announced on July 17, 2019 that a Gold Edition of their album Design Your Universe would come out on 4 October 2019 in support of its tenth anniversary, along with a tour. [66] [67] Omega and The Alchemy Project (2020–present) [ edit ] Simone Simons performing with Epica in 2023 In the 20 years of their existence, EPICA has never shied away from challenges, twists and turns, weathering every storm and pushing the symphonic metal genre to heights no one even dared to believe in. Since 2002, the band featuring singer Simone Simons and her longtime musical partner Mark Jansen has released eight highly innovative and cinematic albums, has toured the world over and has left its mark as one of metal’s most prolific, most cherished and most admired success stories forever.