EPICA - Consign To Oblivion | First Time Reaction | Live at the Zenith
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- First Time Reaction to EPICA - Consign To Oblivion - Live at the Zenith
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Hello Inna! Welcome to the amazing world of Epica. We are Epicans 🙂
You've just discovered one of the greatest symphonic metal bands ever! Yes, it's the same subgenre as Nightwish, however, Epica also incorporate elements of death metal, as you could hear, and generally it's heavier than Nightwish. I'm glad it didn't discourage you. Not everyone likes growls and screams.
Epica is a Dutch band formed in 2002 by Mark Jansen, he's to guy doing most growls. Mark is the main songwriter, but all 6 band members contribute to songwriting and 4 of them have degree in music. Epica songwriting is really great. Beautiful melodies. Wait till you hear some of their breathtaking ballads!
The gorgeous female lead singer is Simone Simons, a classically trained soprano, so yes, she uses operatic vocals too. In this particular song, you heard mostly Mark's growls, not so much Simone, but in almost all other songs, it's mostly Simone singing and just some growls here and there. Epica often use this duality between Mark's harsh vocals and Simone's angelic soprano, which is called "beauty and the beast". In addition to that, there's also a whole choir with their own melodies and lyrics, which can be considered a third character or third voice in their songs.
Yes, Simone and Floor performed together as well. Mark Jansen's first band was After Forever and Floor was their lead singer. Simone was Mark's girlfriend at the time, he brought her to the band rehearsal where she met Floor and they became friends. When Mark left After Forever, he formed Epica and a teen Simone became their lead singer. I think you should see some of their earliest performances. 🙂
Can you tell me what would you like to hear next? Something heavy? Something more radio-friendly? Some of their wonderful ballads?
Kyle, my friend, u are the best ambassador we Epicans have! 🤘🏻
@@fritsyt2090 Thanks Frits 😄
@@cancelled_user ur welcome friend!! That dude about Epica being simple, oh good Lord. He can better listen to the "talent" i named there lol😅
A few examples of Epica's ballads are : EPICA feat. APOCALYPTICA - Rivers (Live At The AFAS) & EPICA - "Sirens - Of Blood And Water" feat. Charlotte Wessels & Myrkur (Official Music Video). But there a lot more to dive into.
@@argantyr5154 People usually don't mention older beautiful ballads 🙂
- Feint (metal + acoustic version)
- Trois Vierges
- Safeguard to Paradise
- Higher High
- White Waters
- Delirium
- Twin Flames (2 versions)
- Dreamscape (+ acoustic Live)
- Canvas of Life (+ acoustic)
Epica forever and ever! For me by far the best symphonic metal band out there! I love that they make heavier stuff with black/death metal elements, beautiful eye watering ballads and everything in between, yes only Epica has this for me and that's why they are one of my two absolute favourite bands besides the kings of folk metal Eluveitie! Have fun with ur journey!
"A lion in the best possible way?" Yes I see it too ;)
I was there ! Their best show so far !
So lucky!
Welcome to the world of Epica, it only get’s more epic the more you explore. Enjoy the ride.
10:40 Absolutely love your face when that majestic choir starts. Such a spine-tingling moment in the song!
Epica are some of the best performers on the world! Thank you giving them much-deserved reaction love! Another fantastic one from them is Victims of Contingency from their Omega Livestream Show: th-cam.com/video/aT1JsH2_97c/w-d-xo.html
Inna, the singer of EPICA is called Simone Simons. I love your videos, above all, many of them are from bands that I love. Keep it up genius. Greetings from Argentina
Inna, how about a duet between Simone Simmon (Epica's lead and your old friend Floor Jansen (the two are fast friends, roommates several years ago) subjecting their thrilled symphonic metal audience to an operatic duet from Pergolese, "Sabat Mater, Dolorosa." The band is accompanied by a smallish orchestra and a full choir! You will love this!
The musical interlude with the piano and brass is part of the French National Anthem played especially for this performance in Paris, that's why the crowd goes wild.
Every performance had at least one added bonus for fans of particular countries.
Hi Inna, yes Epica is a bit like Nightwish but heavier more like a hybrid between Nightwish and Jinjer.
Floor and Simone are very good friends, they trained in their skills together, a great duet between them is the classical piece Stabat mater dolorosa, also Sancta terra is really good!
Like your reaction, you’re very observant! New sub!
I could listen to Simone on repeat for eternity………..
I got to see Epica last October when they opened for Sabaton on their U.S. Tour. It was an amazing show. You should check out Sabaton as well. The drummer from Sabaton is married to Floor Jansen. Sabaton are a Swedish power metal band with most of their songs being based on military history. I would suggest the music videos for "Bismark" or "Christmas Truce" and then the live performance "En Livstid I Krig (Live - The Great Tour - Gothenburg)"
Love your reactions.
Plenty of Epica to enjoy. Nightwish too.
I think you would really enjoy Ayreon "The Day the World Breaks Down". Both Simone and Floor appear, and many other fantastic vocalists and musicians. It opens many paths to explore for other bands.
Great reaction! Loved it! Welcome to EPICA world :)
Some suggestions to follow:
- Unleashed (Retrospect live)
- Design Your Universe (Retrospect live)
- Beyond the Matrix (Live at the Zenith)
- Cry for the Moon (We Will take you with us studio live)
- Unchain Utopia (Omega Alive)
- Kingdom of Heaven part 3 (Omega Alive)
- Rivers feat Apocalyptica (Official Live)
I have many more, EPICA is so amazing so i will continue suggesting more if you continue this journey :)
Cheers!
@7:52 crowd is saying hey hey hey.. the male vocalist asked them to before you stopped it. He is getting them to chant hi hi hi but jts meant hey hey hey. Keep in mind Epica is a Dutch band so their accents kind of play a part. The male singer started the hi hi hi chant and he meant hey hey hey that rock concerts are known for.
Love epica 😊❤❤❤❤
That ending with Simone's return is glorious.
Inna, soooo glad you joined our world. 😊
Queens of symphonic metal.
Arch enemy - Deciever, deciever. You will certainly like them.
Epica, along with Nightwish and Lacuna Coil, make up most of my playlist. I think now Epica will be on yours as well. Loved your wholesome reaction.
Simone is good friends with Floor and they went through classical training together. Their performance together doing Sancta Terra is a great one.
I wholeheartedly agree, from a Nightwish fan who also appreciates Epica.
Queens
Greetings from Denmark. New subscriber here. I like your reactions. My top 3 bands are Nightwish, Epica and The Warning (3 (young) mexican sisters from Monterey) The first two bands are in the symphonic metal genre with differences like Epica has death metal elements, 3 main singers (Simone, Mark (growl/scream) and almost always a choir) and they incl. symphonic orchestra in most of their tracks. Whereas Nightwish also has a choir and orchestra, but mostly out of Tuomas' keyboard (real voices and instruments from the London Philarmonic Orchestra) but not on scene. Then, The Warning are these very talented ladies now (Dany, guitar and lead lead singer, 23; Pau, drums and part lead part background vocals, 21) and Ale, bass, on occasion lead (ehen her sisters' voice need a break) but masterful backing vocals) great lyrics, great riffs, bass line and drums fills - they play rock (hard/heavy rock with note of punk, k-pop, etc.) If you'd like to react to them, you could start with: Choke (official video and live session): th-cam.com/video/TlOy0XbFVlM/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/dxyRnm-G2PQ/w-d-xo.html
Epica is a Metall Band from the the Netherland s Simone and floor Jansen are big frends have fun
3:45 No, you're perfectly right. Epica is indeed a Symphonic Metal band.
This song makes so much more sense if you have the lyrics on hand while watching.
Hi InnaMusic and good morning from Southern California. I'm a new subscriber and discovered your reactions as you were discovering Nightwish and now Epica. Very cool that you have immediately fallen for this type of music. Those of us that have loved this genre of music for a long time will have fun watching your journey. There are lots to discover and I know your subscriber numbers will increase along the way. Keep up the good work and great attitude to new music. Cheers!
It is a joy to see you are having such a good time listening and watching all these new bands. I think only one word fits the song you react to here and that is indeed: Epic .. what a magnificent show and performance.
Maybe a fun fact I haven't seen in the comments so far: Two of their band members are from God Dethroned (Arien - drummer, and Isaac -bass) a Dutch death/black metal band.
I didn’t know! Thanks for the information 😊
Thanks
Great reaction Inna! Really enjoy seeing you hear this great music for the first time. I've listened to music for many decades and really enjoy Symphonic metal.
thank you!
Hi..next time would you react to lacuna coil layers of time. Or Reckless ..👍
Just 7 days ago you listened to Nightwish for the first time now you are already on to Epica. You are in for an incredible ride. Both of these bands are awesome. My two favorite bands. Some people like one or the other better. I consider them to be equals.
To answer your question yes this is also symphonic metal. Nightwish and Epica have many similar characteristics but very different sounds overall.
Recomend this band
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Hey you absolutely should check out their older stuff like The phantom agony, Cry for the moon, Design your universe and they also did more classical stuff like "Feint" and "Memory"
Hi my friend great reaction a few for your list marcelito pomoy the prayer live on the wish bus - home free - man of constant sorrow - pentatonix the sound of silence - Beth and Joe - I'd rather go blind - live in Amsterdam all have fantastic fans and will get you some new subs many thanks love and respect from the UK 👍👍👍👍👍👍🌟😀😀 amazing channel 👍
Audience is just shouting "Hey, Hey!
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Amazing reaction Inna 😊 I love the enthusiasm
EPICA the same genre like Nightwish, but much harder.
Greetings.
Yes, Epica is also symphonic metal.
Here's the link between Nightwish and Epica...
They are sister bands in that they are both symphonic metal bands, however, Floor's first band back in 96 was "After Forever" and Mark Jansen was the guitar player.
Singers Floor and Simone have also been very close since they both went to the same school to take classical vocal training in early 2000s and have remained very close since.
So the link here is that both Mark and Simone are now members of Epica and are extremely close with Floor.
Epica does play with a live orchestra and choir but this is such a bad video to introduce that, in MY opinion, because they're nowhere in sight.
Fans have to break the news in the comments and that's not cool for an intro to such an Epic band, to have to "wish" they could have seen that for their first time watching this band. But again, that's just me.
Thank you for the video, reaction and comments. Stay safe and stay blessed.
😊❤️🤘🤘
They have songs without live performances and clips, but still very good.
For example a criminally underrated song: Epica - Higher High
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I think you'll like this one Inna!
Well done! Молодец! Viele Grüße aus Deutschland 🇩🇪!
Molodec? 😄 Is she Russian?
@@cancelled_userA Language not only spoken in RF 😉
@@cancelled_user I don´t know, where she is from, but the shortcut "Inna" reminds me of a croatian/serbian or bosnian name. I had a colleg named Armina and she used the shortcut Inna.
@@cancelled_userUkrainian
@@cranboogie I thought that has a different letter at the end.
So many things to told. Marc Jansen created EPICA. First of all, Floor and Marc created After Forever. In this time Floor was 16 years old. In their highest time, in my opinion, they are better then Nightwish, because Floor was the better singer. But if you want more, take a look to Wikipedia for the whole story.
Simone Simons ❤
Oh boy this is one the Epica songs with a lot of harsh vocals. They have a huge spread of different songs (from ballads to death metal influenced riffs). You can really see the chemistry on stage and how they love performing. Epica is like a heavier Nightwish. Fun fact: keyboard player is just mimicking the screams from Mark (long hair guitar player). Some favorites (and I always prefer live):
Dreamscape, Rivers, Kingdom of Heaven, Unleashed, Beyond the matrix. Anything retrospect 10y anniversary... So many more
I watched Epica supporting Metallica in Paris.....Epica can command an audience SO much better than Metallica in Europe...James should have sat down and spoke with Simone and listened to her!!
so the pioneers of symphonic metal are rhapsody (of fire) worth checking out. Helloween is also worth mentioning since they were influencing the others a lot. And there are good live videos avaailable with all their singers they ever had. Rhapsody unfortunately doesn't have too much good live video footage available. The music is still worth listening to though. Helloween: Keeper of the seven keys -Pumpkins united tour Rhapsody: epicus furor together with emerald sword in one video might be a good start.
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p.s. Inna, i suggest "Epica - Sancta Terra (feat Floor Jansen) Live Retrospect show" again))
Hi! I just recorded that one! I will the published this week 😊
@@InnaSoloMusic yeeey!
p.s. one more reactions i'd love to see is "KAMELOT - Liar Liar ft. Alissa White-Gluz (Official Video)" and "EPICA - UNCHAIN UTOPIA - (ΩMEGA ALIVE) " 😁
@@InnaSoloMusic Hi Inna.
Can you read my welcoming post please?
I'd like to know what suggestions would best suit you. 🙂
First time I detect your channel.
I love how you are listening closely to the music, making pauses and going back to notice something that you explain.
This brings a good experience and value to seeing your video.
Subscribed 🙂
You now have done some Nightwish and Epica.
If you can do a Therion reaction, it would complete your discovery of the original masters of symphonic metal.
If you like the voices of Floor (Nightwish) and Simone (Epica), you would appreciate Lori Lewis (Therion) too!
Here is a trio suggestion for Therion in case you do it:
song: Schwarzalbenheim, especially from the live called "Miskolc Experience" (you'll understand why :-) )
song: Midgard, especially from the live "Budapest 2007"
song: Birth of Venus Illegitima, from the live called "Live Gothic"
Thank you very much for the suggestion!
hey hey hey hey lol
your so cute
@inna i think they shout hiel like in heik hiedi
lol
Sei troppo Bella per essere Reale 😍🌹
epica its nightwish 2.0 for me loil
sabaton lady of the dark animated story video and Delain the quest and the curse and visions of atlantis pirates will return
You are reacting to Epica? That doesn't really surprise me, because Epica and Nightwish are already well connected through Floor. She was in the band After Forever with Mark Jansen (not related to Floor and guitarist of Epica) and Floor is good friends with the lead singer Simone Simons. Floor has also been on stage as a guest with Epica. Even if I appreciate Simone very much and love her voice, Floor is the more versatile and slightly better singer.
its called symphonic metal just like any other style they tend to use the same things. except epica might be a bit more inventive music wise then nightwish. witch is a bit simpler in terms of riffs and tempo changes. she sounds like opera since thats what she studied :) with Floor even so they had the same study
They don't study "opera" they do "classical"
@@RandallHidalgoS21allas96 One easy way to tell opera singing from classical singing is that for opera singers the minimum distance from mouth to microphone is a meter or two (3-6 ft). If you see the singer holding the microphone near their mouth, it's never opera singing.
Please react to Leprous - Castaway Angels. Cheers!
hae beautiful..😊😊
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Personally, I don't like Epica's music because it's too aggressive for me. Unfortunately, Simone can't change that either. I'm just not a metalhead. Nevertheless, Nightwish is my favorite band, because they make art and not just noise.
It is a matter of taste yes. U just said it right. But Epica is not just noice. I have deep respect for Nightwish and I know that they are way more popular than my favourite band Epica, because a lot of non-metalheads like u are into the softer symphonic metal. Why don't u try to listen to the gorgeous eye watering ballads of Epica like Tides Of Time and Rivers live with Apocalyptica? These songs are without the harsh vocals of Mark. Simone's beautiful crystal clear soprano voice was made for Epica's ballads, well and Apocalyptica's amazing ballad Rise Again too especially the Official live one.
Kelsea, if I may ask, how many Epica ballads do you know? I can give you many suggestions. Not even Nightwish can match the beauty of Epica ballads.
@@fritsyt2090 You'll laugh, but those are exactly the songs I like to listen to from Epica as well. My comment was more about the general direction of the band - and hey; I really love Simone's voice. For me, along with Tarja and Floor, she's one of the very best.
@@cancelled_user I should have made my comment more detailed.Of course I also know the ballads and I like listening to them - I only meant the basic orientation of the band. It might surprise you,but I also don't listen to the most of the After Forever and ReVamp songs - although for me Floor is the best singer of modern times.
@@Kelsea-2002 OK, but both Epica and NW make symphonic metal. Saying that one makes "noise" while the other makes art sounds a bit ridiculous. Epica melodies and overall compositions are beautiful. Even their heavy songs always have some beautiful melodic line. I believe that people who only hear noise, don't have as good ear for music as they may think. I'm saying this as someone who loves orchestral and classical music and even some opera, not just some metalhead who only listens to heavy stuff and nothing else.
You should check whole spectrum of female front metal bands, specially on symphonic genre.