I had a strong schedule of ten days, every day for a couple of hours. Victims Of Contingency 3:31 5. Yet, the song is a bit anti-climactic and drawn out for the sake of being long. Canvas Of Life 5:28 12. Posted Thursday, May 8, 2014 Review 1172775 Well. With a chorus which is channelled by a choir based chorus, it is rather catchy, but I do find better and more obvious examples which could be used as the albums lead single. The Fifth Guardian interlude is a very nice outfit in mellow style that represents a reasonable break after full blast of metal music from prior tracks.
The songs arrangement is also pretty interesting too. Refreshing might be the right word. The power of the human mind has been the main source of inspiration for this record. More than ever, the creation of this album was a group effort and we are extremely proud of the results! One of the bands biggest attractions would have to be the bands lyrics, with the band going in some interesting directions. 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. The Essence Of Silence 4. The music then blasts off beautifully with male back vocal in growling style followed with clean vocal of Simone and female choirs.
Sense Without Sanity — The Impervious Code 6. And singing is very physically demanding. The production on this album seems to have brought everything together at the highest volume possible, so much so that the listener is quite drained by all of it. Yes, they slow it down here and there, but it is when they are at full gallop with the band playing hard and the choir singing their hearts out, and Simone striving to rise above it all, that they are at their very best. Previously, we just did everything in our home studios and sent each other the parts. Best tracks are always hard to call on the most top quality of releases but right from the first listen to Victims of Contingency I couldn't believe how powerful the song was.
Dealing with concepts on humanities inability to deal with aspects of reality which are too hard to contemplate explaining the reference to the id, ego and superego on the album cover. It reminds me the first time I felt in love with Kamelot through their Karma album where it started with an orchestra titled as Regalis Apertura. Musically the band have definitely went into a more heavier direction, with the guitar sound being a lot more prominent and heavier on this album. Sense Without Sanity — The Impervious Code 6. Unchain Utopia, unlike other tracks, starts with a choir an then followed with music blast that contains string arrangement and heavy riffs followed with toning down style when Simone enters her vocal line. This is a real shame, as the album as a whole is an incredible piece of work, much more metallic than the band to which they are most often compared, Nightwish, with the twin guitars locked in and riffing hard. Sense Without Sanity - The Impervious Code changes the mood of the music where now guitar riffs becomes quite dominant and female vocal delivers nice melody.
Jansen, Epica 11:53 Total length: 01:09:27 Bonus tracks No. But, I was talking about small things, wasn't I? I am the kind of person whom very easy and happy to enjoy any kind of music which has orchestra in its composition, be it real or just software manipulation like tons of softwares used in the Tangent's latest album. Although it was initially disappointing that The Quantum Enigma has withdrawn some of this influence again instead of further building on it, such feelings were quickly dispersed as I came to realise that Epica have found the perfect balance here between symphonic progressive metal and symphonic power metal, without really producing an album that belongs to either genre. And while the choral and string arrangements are very impressive, the recording of these sections are not so much. We tried out several people and had them do a test mix of certain songs and he came out on top.
It's a very nice track. Delightfully bombastic and dark in it's arrangement, it veers the farthest away from the cliches I mentioned above, and makes me want to hear more. Leftover or not, Epica has always done tracks like this, with really extreme and intense growling sections that go a step further than is normal for symphonic metal acts, and it just so happens that Victims of Contingency is one of the best tracks on the album. On The Quantum Enigma they've made changes to their sound again. Reverence - Living in the Heart - 5:02 10.
Musically, the emphasis is on energy. The choirs now seem to dominate the song. When it reaches Canvas Of Life, the music is tuned down to the fullest as it's basically a mellow song containing mainly vocal and guitar plus string arrangements. It's odd to say, but it's kind of a new beginning. The album was produced by former keyboard player Joost van den Broek, recorded at Sandlane Recording Facilities in The Netherlands and mixed by Jacob Hansen. Victims Of Contingency kicks off nicely with string arrangements followed with the blast of double pedal bass drums that brings the music into full power metal style with male growling vocal backed with female choirs just before clean female vocal enters. And after that we would go into the studio and that's it.
On 3 June 2015 Epica announced the last venue for their tour in support of The Quantum Enigma to be 22 November 2015 at Klokgebouw in Eindhoven, the Netherlands and revealed that it was a part of the first edition of their very own festival Epic Metal Fest. Of course, Epica have a second singer in Mark Jansen who favours death growls as opposed to the 'proper' singing of Marco Hietala, so there is a very different feel between the two acts. Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band, founded by guitarist and vocalist Mark Jansen subsequent to his departure from After Forever. The music moves beautifully to the second track The Second Stonewith a full blast of power metal style complete with heavy riffs and double pedal bass drums that is running in full speed. I'd say the album draws its cues mostly from The Divine Conspiracy and Requiem for the Indifferent so in a sense is on the level with Design Your Universe but find more middle ground between the two sounds than that album did, as well as having a few different elements such as some folk influences that have a distinct Asian vibe to them. I can consider this as a nice instrumental that bridges the next track.