We are just a few days away from the long awaited 20th anniversary edition of the Download Festival aka Download 2023! There are over 100 bands appearing across the four full days of the festival, plus the five bands in the boardie takeover on Wednesday kicking off the festival. Not to mention loads of the…
The line up for Download Festival 2023 just got a hell of a lot bigger! Some huge names have been added to the already impressive set of bands playing Donington this Summer. With so many great bands joining the fun, it’s difficult to know where to start. So we’ll start with some favourites of ours…
It has been five years since Dutch Powerhouse Symphonic Metallers Epica released a brand-new album (save for reboots, The Solace System EP (2017), Epica Vs Attack on Titan Songs (2018) and The Quantum Enigma B-sides (2020). This is the longest gap between albums in the history of the band, but with the gap comes a rejuvenated Epica in the form of the mighty Omega. With their eighth…
Its Middle Saturday at the 2019 Download Festival. The mixed weather continues, once again the entire field is covered with straw and of course there are the obligatory hangovers (and bangovers) but come 11am thousands of eager metal heads are present in the fields of Donington once again. They are present, ready in expectation of…
It’s high time we updated our Spotify playlist. Now that the craziness of Slam Dunk and Download is out of the way for another year, we’ve got a fresh bands of tunes old and new for our readers and Spotify subscribers! In terms of new tracks, there’s plenty of great stuff. New singles have arrived…
With exactly one month to go before the first day of bands at the 2019 Download Festival, the Download team have one more line up announcement for everyone. Finishing off the line up of bands for 2019 are six more acts, headed by Dutch symphonic metal maestros Epica! The world’s first Nirvana covers band fronted…
Following on from both the addition of a tiny new member to the Epica family (Simone’s little boy Vincent with Kamelot keyboardist Oliver Palotai) and their Retrospect special which covered the first decade of the band (and subsequently recorded for a DVD), Epica have returned with their first bit of new music from their upcoming…
A quick reminder to all of our readers out there and Epica fans everywhere that Epica’s fantastic new album Requiem For The Indifferent, released through our friends at Nuclear Blast is available from today on shelves and from iTunes and all good digital stockists. The album is arguably Epica’s finest, most distinctive album thus far….
In our latest huge exclusive, Rocksins was delighted to be able to have some time with guitarist Isaac Delahaye and singer Simone Simons from Epica, who were in London for a day to promote Epica’s new forthcoming album Requiem For The Indifferent (if you’d like to read a review of Requiem For The Indifferent please…
Band: Epica Album: Requiem For The Indifferent Release Date: 9th March 2012 (13th March 2012 for the USA) Record Label: Nuclear Blast For Fans Of: Nightwish, Kamelot, Lacuna Coil, After Forever, Amaranthe, Symphonic Metal Epica are a band who on record up until this point I’ve not been too familar with, and my main knowledge…
[gameinfo title=”Album Info” album_name=”Quarterpast” publishers=”Nuclear Blast” genres=”Death Metal, Prog Metal” release_date=”19th May 2011″ buy_link=”https://playcom.at/rocksins/19312258.html”] What would happen if distinctive elements of Epica, Amon Amarth, Dimmu Borgir and Skeletonwitch were thrown into a large mixing bowl, stirred around considerably and then poured into an album? You’d get something along the lines of Mayan. The new supergroup…
