It's odd to say, but it's kind of a new beginning." And now even Ariën joined in and that made it all feel refreshing. With the previous album, it was mostly Mark, Coen and me writing a lot. Everyone brought songs to the table, which was very cool. It was working together, rather than reacting. But now we sat down together and discussed a lot more, it was more of a band effort. And after that we would go into the studio and that's it. Previously, we just did everything in our home studios and sent each other the parts. This time we did a long pre-production in the studio and we got to check out a lot of different combinations of amps and then we could record it. Previously, we used to go to the studio, tune our stuff and then we recorded an album. It's become a heavy album, yet all the details are there. We tried out several people and had them do a test mix of certain songs and he came out on top. And, of course, Jacob Hansen mixed it and he knows how to do these things. It was because we started with putting a lot of effort into the basics and we gave a lot of attention to the band part, more so than before. In a recent interview with LiveReviewer, EPICA guitarist Isaac Delahaye stated about the making of "The Quantum Enigma": "It was very much our intention to really make songs. ITunes additional track: "Banish Your Illusion"Ġ4. The Quantum Enigma (Kingdom Of Heaven Part II)ĭigipack additional track: "In All Conscience" Sense Without Sanity (The Impervious Code)ġ3. "The Quantum Enigma" will be released in five different configurations:Ġ5. The album was mixed by Jacob Hansen ( VOLBEAT, HATESPHERE). "The Quantum Enigma" was produced by Joost van den Broek at the Sandlane recording facility in the Netherlands. The only goal we had in mind: creating the album that could lift EPICA up to the next level." Says the band: "More than any of our previous albums, this album is a group effort. Where the 2013 "Retrospect" performance reflected on a decade as one of the leading bands in the symphonic metal scene, "The Quantum Enigma" marks the beginning of a new EPICA: modern, heavy, and without compromises. The official lyric video for the song "The Essence Of Silence" can be seen below. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below.ĮPICA will release its sixth studio album, "The Quantum Enigma", on May 2 in Europe and May 6 in North America through Nuclear Blast. Tom of "The Metalheadz" radio show recently conducted an interview with vocalist Simone Simons of Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA.
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