Floor and Simone have been very good friends for a long time, and they asked her to join them on this song. Mark Jansen (no relation to Floor) the guitarist and male singer for Epica started out with Floor on her first group After Forever and then created Epica. They all got a long history with each other, and lots of respect. Don't they sound beautiful together.
Hello from Vancouver, Canada guys. Their chemistry on stage is magical. They have been good friends for over 20 years now. Floor always does cameo appearances on Epica's Live Retrospect shows. Both fronting amazing symphonic metal bands and both unique in their own talents. You should also react to Stabat Mater Dolorosa .Note: Simone was 3 or 4 months pregnant during that concert.
Sancta Terra is a song from the 2007 album, The Divine Conspiracy. This performance was from EPICA's Retrospect 10th anniversary show in 2013. A 3 hour show with orchestra and choir, and Simone was about 3 months pregnant. Floor was invited to join them. She did one other song with them here, Stabat Mater Dolorosa.
This was Epica’s 10th Anniversary Retrospect Show - that’s why the had an Orchestra & Choir and Floor invited as a Special Guest for a couple of songs too. A “one of” experience!
Hey!! Good reaction!!! Floor and Simone are old Friends. And you can tell when you see both singing together. They are awesome. Greettings from Argentina
EPICA is a heavier and more “international” feel in some songs than NW. Simone is every single bit the vocalist as Floor. As a band Epica is more intense and heavy than NW…even deathcore heavy in some songs with guys shred voices opposing Simone’s archangel vocals…works SO good. My favorite band by far. Great reaction. Don’t deprive yourselves of much more Epica here. Do them live, they like Within Temptation will at times perform with orchestras and choirs, something that NW never does.
I am so lucky! This year I went to concerts of Epica (20 year anniversary) and Nightwish. Next year I will go to Epica (yes, again), Floor Jansen (solo) and Ayreon 🤩
You are correct Andrei. Sancta Terra is Latin for Holy Land. Correct again Andrei. Floor and Simone are very close friends. They actually live together when they were younger. Simone & Floor are magic together. I love metal! It finally happened. You learned to fully appreciate that not all metal is angry and filled with darkness and screaming vocals.. There is beauty to be found! Welcome to this special club Dominika!
I read quite often that they shared a house once upon a time, but I never got reliable conformation on that. When Floor did a virtual get-together with Simone for her TH-cam channel there also was no mention of this. I'm not convinced it is true. Simone was a fan of After Forever when she became Mark's girlfriend. It actually may have been the last straw that got him booted from After Forever (sleeping with fans). It seems unlikely that Floor and Simone were very friendly towards each other at that specific time. When Sahara Dust/Epica became successful, any anger quickly dissipated, but at that time both were sufficiently successful to be in need of a bunk-mate. I think someone mixed up some people and then wrongfully mentioned this and from there every one jumped on board with the mistake (because it would be so cool if it were true). They did live in the same town, so it would be possible, but unfortunately that does not make it true.
@@vogel2280 Floor visited Simone in Germany often,(as grown-ups), but they lived far apart in the Netherlands, Floor in Brabant and Simone in Limburg as young women. That living together is just a myth.
@@patverum9051 Floor was born in Goirle in Brabant, but as a teen she lived in (or as they say over there ON) Reuver in northern Limburg...the birthplace of After Forever and Epica.
Simone was asked this question and answered it a couple days ago, in her new video. She said they were never roommates with Floor and that this is simply not true.
Album version has only Simones vocals in this song, i guess Floor was asked to join, she joined them in one more song in this concert. Epica usually doesn`t have featured guests in their albums, exception is their latest album, The Alchemy Project, where every song has different artists on it. There are two music videos from that album, both are worth checking out, one is The Final Lullaby (feat. Shining) and other - "Sirens - Of Blood And Water" feat. Charlotte Wessels & Myrkur.
Notice the incredible respect between the two dear friends, neither making a single attempt to outdo the other. They made the performance amazing by lifting each other up to greater heights! Epica is a band appropriately named. So much fun to watch you both enjoy this so much!!
Excellent! I saw the friendship/chemistry, too, when I first saw this. Very engaging. It's also a great composition. The chorus gets me every time. Thanks!
Like others mentioned, Live (Retrospect show) - *_"Stabat Mater Dolorosa"_* : th-cam.com/video/nhtOORYTGx8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=_gothmetal_ (operatic duet with Floor) NOTE: The Retrospect show is Epica's celebration of their tenth anniversary in March 2013. Epica performed on stage with the 70-piece Extended Hungarian Remenyi Ede Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of Miskolc National Theatre.
The name Epica was inspired by the 6th studio album by the band Kamelot (listen because it's worth it, especially with the former vocalist Roy Khan), released in 2003. Simone Simons, vocalist of Epica is married to the keyboardist of Kamelot.
Simone Simons and Floor Jansen are best friends. Simone is 3 months pregnant here at this performance. Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band. strangely enough there are a lot of top metal bands and top metal female singers from the Netherlands while there is very little audience and fans for this here . it will be the drinking water here for sure hahaha
I am from Apeldoorn. Metal surely is growing in our country. There are more people who listen to metal than u think. Epica is my favourite band together with Eluveitie.
Nightwish Army Italian Division here. This is, in my opinion, one of the best duet ever. Simone and Floor together are incredible (and the drummer is insane 🤣🤣🤣) 🤟🤟🤟
Floor only did this song for this 1 concert. The entire concert is 3 hours and 48 minutes. It's called "Retrospect". It's a 10th year anniversary celebration concert.
The incredible Simone Simons with her bright and crystal clear voice! This song already existed, it's taken from Epica's third album The Divine Conspiracy from 2007 and it is basically not a duet. Simone wrote the lyrics for this song. She might have sung it a thousand times by now I guess, most of the times on her own.
I think you two will love The Skeleton Key and Freedom, both from EPICA’s latest album Omega! As a big NIGHTWISH fan I recently discovered EPICA and they are amazing too😀
Have you listened to all of their albums? If not, you should! Epica don't have any weak albums, I promise! You' won't be disappointed. However, some songs can take a few more listenings to fully enjoy. It's a complex music. And Simone's voice, especially on the earliest albums, is incredibly beautiful. Her operatic head voice was unlike any other voice I've ever heard. Pure magic! Start with their first album "The Phantom Agony" and hear for yourself. 😉
Floor and Simone goes way back, and have done some phenomenal duets together, like the two here in Epica's 10 year anniversary - but they also guested each other on stage, on festivals - like the duet 'Sweet Curse' from Floor's ReVamp days.
If I remember correctly from some interview, Floor and Simone would at some time been room mates in a common flat, so they do know each other very well..
Yesssss another Metal Head was born! 🤘 Next Womens Power, Ayreon - Waley of the Queens. Personalny I'm pist off at Ayreon becouse it's so short. Epica is spectacular. Energy, positivity, fun are high level. Greatings Guys 🤘
Simone and Floor ARE best friends and were roommates when they studied classical and theatre singing. Half of this band, including guitarplayer are the members from After Forever, Floors first band. So they all know eachother very well and she always remained good friends with these guys. That's what you are seeing here. I love Epica and Simone. We have some very good female singers in Holland (must be in the water) Simone has a beautiful voice , but lighter than Floors. Floor is still superior, with her insane high notes and the power in her lungs.
Floor was invited. Floor and Simone have been close friends since their teens. Also please appreciate that Simone was 12 weeks pregnant during this 23 song long concert. Dutch power, haha. Unfortunately the Dutch lost both of them. Floor lives in Sweden and Simone lives in Germany. Metal is not very popular in the Netherlands.
Symphonic metel is now particularly popular with a very large group of people who are completely crazy about Floor Janssen, and with it Nigthwisch. year 2023 everything is sold out both Nigthwisch and Floor Janssen live, only a total of 8 evenings are already completely sold out, tickets will still be available on the black market for high prices, but if you really want to go you better wait , the week before the concert there are always tickets available from people who have unexpected things (illness, death, other activities that take precedence), but then check the official site, they are offered again for the normal price,, Many success and fun🤘🤘🤓🤓🤘🤘❤️❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️5 stars concert
@@DIRK-PITT Floor said in an interview that the Netherlands have great metal bands like Epica and Delain, so she made me listen to Epica. Within 2 days they became my absolute favourite band besides Eluveitie. I am such a proud Epican, this band has it all. Greetings from the Netherlands, the land of Epicaaa! 🤘🏻
Go to Epica next month 27th of January in AFAS Amsterdam, there are still a few tickets available if i am right, otherwise take a look at ticketswap. There will be way more metalheads and goths than with Nightwish. So the atmosphere will be sooo good with Epica and here and there some moshpits and the famous Consign to Oblivion wall of death. This is what u will miss with Nightwish. And i speak out of experience I've been this year two times to Epica and one time to Nightwish.
@@fritsyt2090 Btw, Frits, thanks for asking Simone if she ever was a roommate with Floor. We finally have a definitive answer. 🙂 At least I assume it was you. She said "Frits" asked that question.
@@cancelled_user i didnt see her q&a, when did she answered my question? So yes it was me asking about Floor and her being room mates. I didn't know ur a patron of Simone too 😃
The sphere of Sancta Terra (sacred ground) begins with an absolutely conscious oriental. The song is about the mentality of a (fundamentalist) suicide bomber. This song has been adapted for this jubilee concert by Simone and Floor (lifelong friends) into a duet. According to Simone, this song is about someone who has blown himself up and believes he has arrived in heaven, but he is actually in hell. However, he feels good there, so he belongs there.
You were right about the oriental sound. these are used a lot in metal music. also, there are a lot of oriental based and popular metal bands. When you have time, you should check out Myrath, Orphaned Land or Melechesh, to name a few.👌
If you like them singing together they did a classical piece together just with the orchestra no rock .. Epica "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" with Floor Jansen.
"Symphony from heaven" - as a beautiful performance - yes - but the song is about a suicide bomber. The song is an Epica one but has been sung as a duet with many guest vocalists including several performances with Floor. Simone's hair swinging is less vigorous than Floors as she was pregnant and this 10th anniversary concert was three hours long.
Has anyone else heard anything about you tube regulating reactors channels, it was in one of the papers over here in the UK, can't remember which I have deadly app so can read all the papers and mags I want. It was saying due to the avalanche of reactors who seem to charge what they like they are going to have to investigate and regulate. I've no idea, how reaction channels even work, but hope that our favourite reactors are going to be OK, I love listening to this pair.
Good friends, former roommates, there's videos of them clowning around like school kids. Simone gets floor in the end. Two powerhouses for sure! See Simones baby bump?
You two are a genuinely enjoyable couple to watch. You seem to have a very good relationship. Something interesting that might interest you, someone one You Tube has made mashups of some Nightwish songs where they both sing .
Try another band from the Netherlands, symphonic metal'Within Temptation" with another great female vocalist and absolutely killing live performances. Black symphony concert with the best duet ever "Somewhere" with Anneke van Giersbergen. Enjoy!!!
You seen Simone in TDTWBD from Ayreon couple days before, she had a part in that song, just a question beside , ever heard of Lorena McKennit , completely different type of music but such a great singer maybe you could take a look at her to , I suggest the live recording from the Alhambra (Spain) just real music
th-cam.com/video/LjvXo5GRvxI/w-d-xo.html This a link from many years ago. Here you can see Simone and Floor together as friends. Also Mark Jansen was together with Floor Jansen (not related) in After Forever. After Mark left he later on started Epica and Simone Simons started to sing etc with Epica. A very long time ago Simone and Mark dated but, that ended in 2005. They are both still in Epica. You might like it. Warm greetings from The Netherlands 👍💜🍀🤘💪🇳🇱🌷🤗
Same here. 🙂 I must say Floor was my number 1 before I discovered Simone. Her head voice and her mixing of head+chest is just incredible. Not to mention how much I love her timbre.
Interestingly, this is a song about a suicide bomber who thinks he ended up in heaven, but realizes he is actually somewhere else. The uplifting music is in contrast to the result of where he ended. A place which I have searched a thousand times To finally free myself Forever wasn't ever long enough I will refrain I feel a passion washing over me To shed the skin I'm in This evolution will empower me Now truth begins And you will not find me I am safe in here I'm where I want to be It's a place where a wish will be granted Come, you'll see I'm right It's a force that will live on within you Dark as day is light It's a place where your dreams will be slanted And will always be It's a force that was sent out to win you Just you wait and see Take one step closer to the borderline Where night and day unite This mortal coil I've gone and left behind On holy soil And you will not find me I am safe in here I'm where I want to be It's a place where a wish will be granted Come, you'll see I'm right It's a force that will live on within you Dark as day is light It's a place where your dreams will be slanted And will always be It's a force that was sent out to win you Just you wait and see You might also like You will not find me I am safe in here I am where I want to be So leave me now in peace And you will not find me I am safe in here I'm where I want to be! It's a place where a wish will be granted Come, you'll see I'm right It's a force that will live on within you Dark as day is light It's a place where your dreams will be slanted And will always be It's a force that was sent out to win you Just you wait and see It's a place where a wish will be granted Come, you'll see I'm right It's a force that will live on within you Dark as day is light It's a place where your dreams will be slanted And will always be It's a force that was sent out to win you Just you wait and see
Too bad world championship football is not world championship woman metal singing, Netherlands will surely come on top! And they are not even our only 2 Queens…….. And yes, Simone and Floor are friends. And of course Mark Jansen played in After Forever together with Floor. Just people loving each other and the music genre 🎸🤘☕️
Not true. Floor is 4 years older than Simone, they’ve never been roommates and they even not best friends as often told. They’re are colleagues and casual friends as 2 Dutch women in the metal scene.
In fact it was a song from hell, the suicide bomber expected to go to heaven, but winds up in hell, and likes it there. Written by Simone Simons, tune by Jansen/Simons.
I think you guys would certainly enjoy Gateways by Dimmu Borgir... More amazing choral accompaniment and a guest female vocalist... But this time it's metal of a blacker kind 🤟🏻 th-cam.com/video/XGoak4ISCPU/w-d-xo.html
@@cancelled_user Because the guys like female vocalists in metal, the presence of Agnete might appeal to them for their introduction to DB. Totally agree that those would also be great choices. (Live preferably!)
Here a short clip of Floor and Simone rehearsing on a Revamp song, so 2010 or a bit later: th-cam.com/video/LjvXo5GRvxI/w-d-xo.html And funny that you call it a symphony from heaven as the subject seems to be about a terrorist who thinks he is going to heaven😮
Why would you not care to know what they're singing about? Strange! With their lyric's, they're actually trying to tell you a Story! Btw, [Metal is of the Devil, so I hope you love HELL too!] 😈 🎶🎧 😇⚰
@@tomvenner6030 *trve. It's the trve black metal way of spelling the word "true". I could also tell you about the word "kvlt" but I'm afraid Satan will snatch my soul if I do.😂 I was actually trolling the troll if it ain't obvious yet.
Symphonic metel is now particularly popular with a very large group of people who are completely crazy about Floor Janssen, and with it Nigthwisch. year 2023 everything is sold out both Nigthwisch and Floor Janssen live, only a total of 8 evenings are already completely sold out, tickets will still be available on the black market for high prices, but if you really want to go you better wait , the week before the concert there are always tickets available from people who have unexpected things (illness, death, other activities that take precedence), but then check the official site, they are offered again for the normal price,, Many success and fun, 🤘🤘❤️❤️🤘🤘🤓🤓 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️concert
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Floor and Simone have been very good friends for a long time, and they asked her to join them on this song. Mark Jansen (no relation to Floor) the guitarist and male singer for Epica started out with Floor on her first group After Forever and then created Epica. They all got a long history with each other, and lots of respect. Don't they sound beautiful together.
🌀🌀🌀🧘🧘🧘🙏🙏🙏 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN pt1
The Song Sancta Terra (Holy ground), is about a Suicide Bomber that thinks he is going to Heaven, but ends up in a completely different place.
Afte a bad day.....play this song...once, twice....your mind, your mood..all is square again!
Statement of the day:
"I love metal!" 😂
I am so glad you do! 😊🖤
Hello from Vancouver, Canada guys. Their chemistry on stage is magical. They have been good friends for over 20 years now. Floor always does cameo appearances on Epica's Live Retrospect shows. Both fronting amazing symphonic metal bands and both unique in their own talents. You should also react to Stabat Mater Dolorosa .Note: Simone was 3 or 4 months pregnant during that concert.
There has only ever been one Retrospect show - it was their tenth anniversary which is why they had a full orchestra & choir on stage with them
Hello from Nanaimo. 🤘
Sancta Terra is a song from the 2007 album, The Divine Conspiracy. This performance was from EPICA's Retrospect 10th anniversary show in 2013. A 3 hour show with orchestra and choir, and Simone was about 3 months pregnant. Floor was invited to join them. She did one other song with them here, Stabat Mater Dolorosa.
The Goddess of Valkyries and the Queen of Epice together on one Stage = Epic !
Sancta Terra is always a fave. And it is especially good when Floor is added.
This was Epica’s 10th Anniversary Retrospect Show - that’s why the had an Orchestra & Choir and Floor invited as a Special Guest for a couple of songs too.
A “one of” experience!
great reaction like allways ......more Epica plz
Hey!! Good reaction!!! Floor and Simone are old Friends. And you can tell when you see both singing together. They are awesome. Greettings from Argentina
EPICA is a heavier and more “international” feel in some songs than NW. Simone is every single bit the vocalist as Floor. As a band Epica is more intense and heavy than NW…even deathcore heavy in some songs with guys shred voices opposing Simone’s archangel vocals…works SO good. My favorite band by far. Great reaction. Don’t deprive yourselves of much more Epica here. Do them live, they like Within Temptation will at times perform with orchestras and choirs, something that NW never does.
I am so lucky! This year I went to concerts of Epica (20 year anniversary) and Nightwish. Next year I will go to Epica (yes, again), Floor Jansen (solo) and Ayreon 🤩
The song Stabat Mater Dolorosa, from the same concert, also is a great one to check out. That one shows great skill from both ladies.
I concur.
I concur
And after that we can finally focus on Epica. 😌
.. I guess that's the way Floor stops by to say hello 🤪😁😍 leaving everybody speechless
You are correct Andrei. Sancta Terra is Latin for Holy Land. Correct again Andrei. Floor and Simone are very close friends. They actually live together when they were younger.
Simone & Floor are magic together.
I love metal! It finally happened. You learned to fully appreciate that not all metal is angry and filled with darkness and screaming vocals.. There is beauty to be found! Welcome to this special club Dominika!
I read quite often that they shared a house once upon a time, but I never got reliable conformation on that. When Floor did a virtual get-together with Simone for her TH-cam channel there also was no mention of this. I'm not convinced it is true.
Simone was a fan of After Forever when she became Mark's girlfriend. It actually may have been the last straw that got him booted from After Forever (sleeping with fans). It seems unlikely that Floor and Simone were very friendly towards each other at that specific time. When Sahara Dust/Epica became successful, any anger quickly dissipated, but at that time both were sufficiently successful to be in need of a bunk-mate.
I think someone mixed up some people and then wrongfully mentioned this and from there every one jumped on board with the mistake (because it would be so cool if it were true). They did live in the same town, so it would be possible, but unfortunately that does not make it true.
@@vogel2280 Floor visited Simone in Germany often,(as grown-ups),
but they lived far apart in the Netherlands, Floor in Brabant and Simone
in Limburg as young women.
That living together is just a myth.
@@patverum9051 Floor was born in Goirle in Brabant, but as a teen she lived in (or as they say over there ON) Reuver in northern Limburg...the birthplace of After Forever and Epica.
Simone was asked this question and answered it a couple days ago, in her new video. She said they were never roommates with Floor and that this is simply not true.
@@cancelled_user Well that answers the question! Got a link? Then we can start to get rid of one more piece of misinformation.
Album version has only Simones vocals in this song, i guess Floor was asked to join, she joined them in one more song in this concert.
Epica usually doesn`t have featured guests in their albums, exception is their latest album, The Alchemy Project, where every song has different artists on it. There are two music videos from that album, both are worth checking out, one is The Final Lullaby (feat. Shining) and other - "Sirens - Of Blood And Water" feat. Charlotte Wessels & Myrkur.
altho there are few Sancta Terra versions with MaYaN girls and one feat Marcela and Manuela Kraller (ex Xandria)
Simone and Floor are not only Dutch.
They've also been friends for a long time.
Greetings from the Netherlands.
One thing to say....Floor + Simone = POWER COMBO!!!!
🤘😎🤘.
Notice the incredible respect between the two dear friends, neither making a single attempt to outdo the other. They made the performance amazing by lifting each other up to greater heights! Epica is a band appropriately named. So much fun to watch you both enjoy this so much!!
Excellent! I saw the friendship/chemistry, too, when I first saw this. Very engaging. It's also a great composition. The chorus gets me every time. Thanks!
Like others mentioned, Live (Retrospect show) - *_"Stabat Mater Dolorosa"_* : th-cam.com/video/nhtOORYTGx8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=_gothmetal_ (operatic duet with Floor)
NOTE: The Retrospect show is Epica's celebration of their tenth anniversary in March 2013. Epica performed on stage with the 70-piece Extended Hungarian Remenyi Ede Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of Miskolc National Theatre.
The name Epica was inspired by the 6th studio album by the band Kamelot (listen because it's worth it, especially with the former vocalist Roy Khan), released in 2003. Simone Simons, vocalist of Epica is married to the keyboardist of Kamelot.
Simone Simons and Floor Jansen are best friends.
Simone is 3 months pregnant here at this performance.
Epica is a Dutch symphonic metal band.
strangely enough there are a lot of top metal bands and top metal female singers from the Netherlands while there is very little audience and fans for this here .
it will be the drinking water here for sure hahaha
I am from Apeldoorn. Metal surely is growing in our country. There are more people who listen to metal than u think. Epica is my favourite band together with Eluveitie.
Good ear. The intro uses notes from the double harmonic scale, most notably used in Eastern music.
Nightwish Army Italian Division here. This is, in my opinion, one of the best duet ever. Simone and Floor together are incredible (and the drummer is insane 🤣🤣🤣) 🤟🤟🤟
Next Epica song... 🥰
-Chasing the dragin Live Retrospect
-The Phantom agony Live Retrospect
Floor only did this song for this 1 concert. The entire concert is 3 hours and 48 minutes. It's called "Retrospect". It's a 10th year anniversary celebration concert.
The incredible Simone Simons with her bright and crystal clear voice!
This song already existed, it's taken from Epica's third album The Divine Conspiracy from 2007 and it is basically not a duet. Simone wrote the lyrics for this song. She might have sung it a thousand times by now I guess, most of the times on her own.
I think you two will love The Skeleton Key and Freedom, both from EPICA’s latest album Omega! As a big NIGHTWISH fan I recently discovered EPICA and they are amazing too😀
Have you listened to all of their albums? If not, you should!
Epica don't have any weak albums, I promise! You' won't be disappointed. However, some songs can take a few more listenings to fully enjoy. It's a complex music.
And Simone's voice, especially on the earliest albums, is incredibly beautiful. Her operatic head voice was unlike any other voice I've ever heard. Pure magic! Start with their first album "The Phantom Agony" and hear for yourself. 😉
Stabat mater Dolorosa, same concert……..beautiful!!
Oh my God, I have goosebumps all over me!!!
Your first time Epica? 🙂
Floor and Simone goes way back, and have done some phenomenal duets together, like the two here in Epica's 10 year anniversary - but they also guested each other on stage, on festivals - like the duet 'Sweet Curse' from Floor's ReVamp days.
The good chemistry is due to some members of Epica played with Floor in a previous band, ReVamp.
I love Epica. Check out the track ‘Consign to Oblivion’ from Epica live at the Zenith in Paris!
If I remember correctly from some interview, Floor and Simone would at some time been room mates in a common flat, so they do know each other very well..
Yesssss another Metal Head was born! 🤘 Next Womens Power, Ayreon - Waley of the Queens. Personalny I'm pist off at Ayreon becouse it's so short. Epica is spectacular. Energy, positivity, fun are high level. Greatings Guys 🤘
this is one of the greatest things ever recorded. Anywhere. Ever. Full stop!
Epica use a lot of Arabic scales in their music, it's quite distinctive!
Hola.
Épica es muy buena banda. Me gusta mucho su canción "cry for the moon"
Saludos.
✨✨Love ya soooo much. You are really 2 gemstones from Poland. Always smile when you make reactions ;-)✨✨
For another great duet performed by great female metal singers react to Within Temptation with Somewhere
Two friends together, magic happens.
The choir rocking out!
Heavenly (or was the protagonist in Hell, and happy there?)
it's so pleasant to see you have so much fun listening to this, as we could have too when we first heard this one !!
Epica was founded by Marc Jansen, a member of Floor's first band After Forever
Simone and Floor ARE best friends and were roommates when they studied classical and theatre singing.
Half of this band, including guitarplayer are the members from After Forever, Floors first band. So they all know eachother very well and she always remained good friends with these guys. That's what you are seeing here.
I love Epica and Simone. We have some very good female singers in Holland (must be in the water) Simone has a beautiful voice , but lighter than Floors. Floor is still superior, with her insane high notes and the power in her lungs.
They never were roommates. 🙂 Simone finally said it in an interview a couple days ago.
And they didn't study together either. Simone is 4 years younger than Floor and she never went to the Rock Academy.
i've been waiting this reaction sooooooooooooooooo looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong!!!!
I loved it when Dominika talked about "Girlpower and the men all down" and Andrei said: "What are you talking about?!". 😁😂🤣
Simone was in her 3e mnd (child) !!!!!!!!! POWERHOSE !
Simone and Floor are long time friends.
So great!
Dutch Power Metal Woman !! its EPIC !! ❤
Floor was invited. Floor and Simone have been close friends since their teens. Also please appreciate that Simone was 12 weeks pregnant during this 23 song long concert. Dutch power, haha. Unfortunately the Dutch lost both of them. Floor lives in Sweden and Simone lives in Germany. Metal is not very popular in the Netherlands.
Symphonic metel is now particularly popular with a very large group of people who are completely crazy about Floor Janssen, and with it Nigthwisch. year 2023 everything is sold out both Nigthwisch and Floor Janssen live, only a total of 8 evenings are already completely sold out, tickets will still be available on the black market for high prices, but if you really want to go you better wait , the week before the concert there are always tickets available from people who have unexpected things (illness, death, other activities that take precedence), but then check the official site, they are offered again for the normal price,, Many success and fun🤘🤘🤓🤓🤘🤘❤️❤️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️5 stars concert
@@DIRK-PITT Floor said in an interview that the Netherlands have great metal bands like Epica and Delain, so she made me listen to Epica. Within 2 days they became my absolute favourite band besides Eluveitie. I am such a proud Epican, this band has it all. Greetings from the Netherlands, the land of Epicaaa! 🤘🏻
Go to Epica next month 27th of January in AFAS Amsterdam, there are still a few tickets available if i am right, otherwise take a look at ticketswap. There will be way more metalheads and goths than with Nightwish. So the atmosphere will be sooo good with Epica and here and there some moshpits and the famous Consign to Oblivion wall of death. This is what u will miss with Nightwish. And i speak out of experience I've been this year two times to Epica and one time to Nightwish.
@@fritsyt2090 Btw, Frits, thanks for asking Simone if she ever was a roommate with Floor. We finally have a definitive answer. 🙂 At least I assume it was you. She said "Frits" asked that question.
@@cancelled_user i didnt see her q&a, when did she answered my question? So yes it was me asking about Floor and her being room mates. I didn't know ur a patron of Simone too 😃
Amazing :-). And you guys are great good people. I allways get in a better mood watching you 😎👍. Love from Norway
Great reaction as always.
The drummer .. sounds like a bulletproof
Thanks
Metal Angels.
The sphere of Sancta Terra (sacred ground) begins with an absolutely conscious oriental. The song is about the mentality of a (fundamentalist) suicide bomber. This song has been adapted for this jubilee concert by Simone and Floor (lifelong friends) into a duet. According to Simone, this song is about someone who has blown himself up and believes he has arrived in heaven, but he is actually in hell. However, he feels good there, so he belongs there.
Dominika loves metal, wow, I'm glad to hear that 🙂Welcome to the family guys! 🤘🏻
Thank you both for a fun reaction.
You were right about the oriental sound. these are used a lot in metal music. also, there are a lot of oriental based and popular metal bands. When you have time, you should check out Myrath, Orphaned Land or Melechesh, to name a few.👌
Yeah nice but or u name two amazing oriental influenced masterpieces of Epica: "Code Of Life" and "Dancing In A Hurricane" 🔥🤘🏻
If you like them singing together they did a classical piece together just with the orchestra no rock .. Epica "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" with Floor Jansen.
"Symphony from heaven" - as a beautiful performance - yes - but the song is about a suicide bomber. The song is an Epica one but has been sung as a duet with many guest vocalists including several performances with Floor. Simone's hair swinging is less vigorous than Floors as she was pregnant and this 10th anniversary concert was three hours long.
Has anyone else heard anything about you tube regulating reactors channels, it was in one of the papers over here in the UK, can't remember which I have deadly app so can read all the papers and mags I want. It was saying due to the avalanche of reactors who seem to charge what they like they are going to have to investigate and regulate. I've no idea, how reaction channels even work, but hope that our favourite reactors are going to be OK, I love listening to this pair.
Good friends, former roommates, there's videos of them clowning around like school kids. Simone gets floor in the end. Two powerhouses for sure! See Simones baby bump?
They never were roommates.
Epic🇸🇪
You two are a genuinely enjoyable couple to watch. You seem to have a very good relationship.
Something interesting that might interest you, someone one You Tube has made mashups of some Nightwish songs where they both sing .
Try another band from the Netherlands, symphonic metal'Within Temptation" with another great female vocalist and absolutely killing live performances. Black symphony concert with the best duet ever "Somewhere" with Anneke van Giersbergen. Enjoy!!!
You seen Simone in TDTWBD from Ayreon couple days before, she had a part in that song, just a question beside , ever heard of Lorena McKennit , completely different type of music but such a great singer maybe you could take a look at her to , I suggest the live recording from the Alhambra (Spain) just real music
We had Lorena's CD back in the day. Love her!
"let me speak" 👆 🤣🤣
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This a link from many years ago.
Here you can see Simone and Floor together as friends.
Also Mark Jansen was together with Floor Jansen (not related) in After Forever.
After Mark left he later on started Epica and Simone Simons started to sing etc with Epica.
A very long time ago Simone and Mark dated but, that ended in 2005.
They are both still in Epica.
You might like it.
Warm greetings from The Netherlands
👍💜🍀🤘💪🇳🇱🌷🤗
Are you sure it ended in 2005? I thought in 2006 or 2007.
There's an interview from 2005 when they were still a couple.
@@cancelled_user
If that's so I stand corrected and I'm thanking you for it.
simone is my fav female singer Floor is second epica is my 2nd fav bandsabaton is 1st
Same here. 🙂 I must say Floor was my number 1 before I discovered Simone. Her head voice and her mixing of head+chest is just incredible. Not to mention how much I love her timbre.
Waiting for Trueno - Tierra Santa ! daaaaale! You are awesome!
Interestingly, this is a song about a suicide bomber who thinks he ended up in heaven, but realizes he is actually somewhere else. The uplifting music is in contrast to the result of where he ended.
A place which I have searched a thousand times
To finally free myself
Forever wasn't ever long enough
I will refrain
I feel a passion washing over me
To shed the skin I'm in
This evolution will empower me
Now truth begins
And you will not find me
I am safe in here
I'm where I want to be
It's a place where a wish will be granted
Come, you'll see I'm right
It's a force that will live on within you
Dark as day is light
It's a place where your dreams will be slanted
And will always be
It's a force that was sent out to win you
Just you wait and see
Take one step closer to the borderline
Where night and day unite
This mortal coil I've gone and left behind
On holy soil
And you will not find me
I am safe in here
I'm where I want to be
It's a place where a wish will be granted
Come, you'll see I'm right
It's a force that will live on within you
Dark as day is light
It's a place where your dreams will be slanted
And will always be
It's a force that was sent out to win you
Just you wait and see
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You will not find me
I am safe in here
I am where I want to be
So leave me now in peace
And you will not find me
I am safe in here
I'm where I want to be!
It's a place where a wish will be granted
Come, you'll see I'm right
It's a force that will live on within you
Dark as day is light
It's a place where your dreams will be slanted
And will always be
It's a force that was sent out to win you
Just you wait and see
It's a place where a wish will be granted
Come, you'll see I'm right
It's a force that will live on within you
Dark as day is light
It's a place where your dreams will be slanted
And will always be
It's a force that was sent out to win you
Just you wait and see
Too bad world championship football is not world championship woman metal singing, Netherlands will surely come on top! And they are not even our only 2 Queens…….. And yes, Simone and Floor are friends. And of course Mark Jansen played in After Forever together with Floor. Just people loving each other and the music genre 🎸🤘☕️
Floor and Simone where roommates at the age of 16
Not true. Floor is 4 years older than Simone, they’ve never been roommates and they even not best friends as often told. They’re are colleagues and casual friends as 2 Dutch women in the metal scene.
Simone said it on her Patreon a couple days ago: They were never roommates with Floor.
🇬🇧 Norfolk love it with or without the brackets
Two Dutch queens and they are best friends
Simone said thank you little floor at the end
Oke, now pleasee react "EPICA - Design Your Universe live retrospect"
Within Temptation duet with Annika
In fact it was a song from hell, the suicide bomber expected to go to heaven, but winds
up in hell, and likes it there.
Written by Simone Simons, tune by Jansen/Simons.
🤗🍒🤘🏻😘
Interestingly, Simone was 3 or 4 months pregnant at this show.
Fun fact: Simone was 3 months pregnant on that show.
I think you guys would certainly enjoy Gateways by Dimmu Borgir... More amazing choral accompaniment and a guest female vocalist... But this time it's metal of a blacker kind 🤟🏻
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Why this song?
How about "Kings of the Carnival Creation" or "Born Treacherous" or "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" 🙂
@@cancelled_user Because the guys like female vocalists in metal, the presence of Agnete might appeal to them for their introduction to DB. Totally agree that those would also be great choices. (Live preferably!)
Please react to Charlotte Wessels ´Soft Revolution´ You wont be sorry...She is a friend from Simone Simons and Floor Jansen
"Sancta Terra" = Holy (or Sacred ) Ground ( or place or land ) in Latin.....
Are you a metalhead yet 😃
they were college roommates
They were never roommates. 🙂 Simone finally confirmed it a couple days ago in her video.
@@cancelled_user ahh, thanks brother
Epica is good, but it just gets a little better with Floor 🙂
Here a short clip of Floor and Simone rehearsing on a Revamp song, so 2010 or a bit later:
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And funny that you call it a symphony from heaven as the subject seems to be about a terrorist who thinks he is going to heaven😮
Why would you not care to know what they're singing about? Strange! With their lyric's, they're actually trying to tell you a Story!
Btw, [Metal is of the Devil, so I hope you love HELL too!] 😈 🎶🎧 😇⚰
Epica>>>>>Nightwish
Nah, it's all just lullabies for wee lassies. Both suck compared to Cephalotripsy. THAT's TRVE METAL.
Stay bRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRutal!😈
@@noneofyerbeeswax8194 what is thrive metal?
@@tomvenner6030 *trve. It's the trve black metal way of spelling the word "true". I could also tell you about the word "kvlt" but I'm afraid Satan will snatch my soul if I do.😂
I was actually trolling the troll if it ain't obvious yet.
@@noneofyerbeeswax8194 But is it KVLT metal?
@@NPK476 Your question represents a grammatically incorrect way of using the word "kvlt" - and I'm not even kidding this time.
*They sound like the best friends*
Well, that's because they are, since they were teens I believe..
Symphonic metel is now particularly popular with a very large group of people who are completely crazy about Floor Janssen, and with it Nigthwisch. year 2023 everything is sold out both Nigthwisch and Floor Janssen live, only a total of 8 evenings are already completely sold out, tickets will still be available on the black market for high prices, but if you really want to go you better wait , the week before the concert there are always tickets available from people who have unexpected things (illness, death, other activities that take precedence), but then check the official site, they are offered again for the normal price,, Many success and fun, 🤘🤘❤️❤️🤘🤘🤓🤓
5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️concert
A.liddel.tip. Check out the 20th Aneveserie Tour 2022 maby you find in this Show your Favorit Epica Songs. 🤘