![]() ![]() If you can put emotions into robots and create sentient artificial intelligence, what’s the difference between a robot and a human? And what if we’re all robots but just don’t know it? Anything is possible!” There have been many science fiction movies about robots who can think for themselves, but now it’s really happening. Mark: “The lyrics are about robots who decide they want to kill that is, artificial intelligence that’s programmed to fight in wars without anyone having to push a button. He’s not a guitarist so he writes from an alternative perspective and it brings something different to the table, although he sometimes comes up with guitar parts that are impossible to play!” Universal Death Squad Mark: “The music is written by our drummer Ariën van Weesenbeek. This song is basically about The Matrix and the idea of manipulating your dreams to create new realities.” Epica’s next full-length outing, 2016’s Holographic Principle, was described by Simons in an interview with Spark TV as their “most ambitious offering to date.Simone: “I’m a bit of a movie freak and there were two main movies that inspired our concept: The Matrix and Inception. ![]() Just a year later, the band issued The Quantum Enigma, its first studio album with Rob van der Loo. The band celebrated its tenth anniversary in March 2013 with a special show in Eindhoven, titled and later released as Retrospect, which even featured former members Sluijter, Simons, and Huts. and U.S., after which another lineup shift found Huts giving way to Rob van der Loo on bass. It charted across Europe, as did 2009’s Design Your Universe, which equaled their best Dutch chart showing at number eight Design Your Universe also featured a new member, with Isaac Delahaye taking over guitar duties.Įpica’s fifth studio album, Requiem for the Indifferent, appeared in 2012. A move to metal powerhouse Nuclear Blast and the addition of Ariën van Weesenbeek on drums was followed by Epica’s first conceptual album, The Divine Conspiracy, released in 2007. The band’s early success paved the way for 2005’s sophomore LP, Consign to Oblivion, which also charted well in the Netherlands. Released by Transmission Records in late 2003, the album spawned a number of singles. After drafting teenaged mezzo-soprano Simone Simons, guitarist Ad Sluijter, keyboardist Coen Janssen, bassist Yves Huts, and drummer Jeroen Simons, Epica entered Wolfsburg, Germany’s Gate Studio with a classically trained choir and string section to lay down their ambitious debut, The Phantom Agony. When all hope is gone Our world will fall to pieces Visions are defeated and beaten All our dreams will come to an end Cannot pretend Another chance for thisĭeep in the night, boundless violence will seethe with the danger Our laws collide not allowing another contender When the wine drinks itself, you will burn to a cinder We'reĮdit bioOriginally calling themselves Sahara Dust, Holland’s Epica formed in early 2003 when After Forever guitarist Mark Jansen decided to break away from the group he had helped found in order to start an operatic metal project all his own. Stay the course Unregarded what the others think Follow through your goals Stay the course Be impassive what all the others want Go your own way Stand focused,įollow your common sense You cannot hide yourself Behind a fairytale forever and ever Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose The soul of this sick bulwark forever and So many days we've spent together Trying to get ahead with our dreams Now we have come to the goal forgotten Hurting within left us torn The road is open We find go Nothing's wrong Long time, no see, I'm doing fine, yeah, thank you That's nice, you look Tonight we're gonna have a social experiment And here we. We're blind and eager Avarice will set us back to blank Those who wager all will have to name a reason If you can't let go, you will end up empty handed If you can't Would anybody dare to know the answer? Would anybody dare to face the truth? We bide the time awaiting our answers To our kind We're all in this apocalypse togetherįollow your common sense You cannot hide yourself Behind a fairytale forever and ever Only by revealing the whole truth can we disclose The soul of this bulwark forever and This time your mind will find a virtual phantasmic paradeĪbandon fear give in before your mind can never escapeīlack was the night when I did surrender I did give in to my weakening sight Now that I'm empty my dreams once were many Soul's bitter cry to unleash the divine When I can sense the eclipse is rising, showing the blood red moon Within reach is a fading horizon, deep down the flames grow Believing worlds below that crushed mankind ![]()
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