Martyrs of the Free Word

What are you thinking?

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:08:05 GMT

Another one

Simone @ Twitter

Admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:18:07 GMT

http://twitter.com/SimoneSimons

Her latest post
''Listening to DYU''

Mean girl haha

Official Website Updates

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:56:13 GMT

A thread for anything related to the official forum and website.Not only related for DYU,but for gigs,and other stuff too

Isaac interview on Hemmerfest 2010

magnoly — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:17:27 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tPa79_HEZ0 I think it might be the first time me hearing Isaac talking. He really seems like a cool and talkative person.

Mark's & Sander's Solo Project

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:41:21 GMT

Read this: http://www.bravewords.com/news/124456 Oh My Gosh,I'm so looking forward to this! I hope this time will work better than how it was on After Forever.But it says it will be diffrent so we can have high hopes I love Mark's colaboration on the first two After Forever albums and also Sander's guest apperance on 'Death Of A Dream',so I think it will sound awesome!

The Mastermind

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:02:19 GMT

Who else than Mr.Jansen? I know me and Gosia will fangirl all over this topic Why we love Mark: -He is a genoius composer,he composed both metal and classical music songs -He is such a great lyricist,The Embrace That Smothers songs really blow me away -He is in my opinion the best grunter(well I preffer his screams but )ever,and I hate when people say he destroys the songs with his grunts.Without him,Epica wouldn't exist so,they shall shut up! -He is hot,and funny aswell ...

The Classical Conspiracy Hurt & Heal

Admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:47:29 GMT

01. Palladium (10) 02. Dies Irae (10) 03. Ombra Mai Fu (10) 04. Adagio (10) 05. Spiderman Medley (10) 06. Presto (10) 07. Montagues & Capulets (10) 08. The Imperial March (10) 09. Stabat Mater Dolorosa (10) 10. Unholy Trinity (10) 11. In The Hall Of Mountain King (10) 12. Pirates Of Carribean (10) 13. Indigo (10) 14. The Last Crusade (10) 15. Sensorium (10) 16. Quietus (10) 17. Chasing the Dragon (10) 18. Feint (10) 19. Never Enough (10) 20. Beyond ...

Epica rate song

Admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:42:43 GMT

Rate from 1-10

The Divine Conspiracy?

Epica Song Battles

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:01:00 GMT

I hope you all know this game .Just please state why you like the song more than the other

Trois Vierges vs. The Phantom Agony

Epica Song Preference Game

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:58:33 GMT

I couldn't help but add this game too For those who don't know the rules,they are very simple.Write down 5 Epica song randomly,and the next person will have to order them by his/her preference,then it will also write down 5 more song and so on.. I'll start Adyta,Another Me,Beyond Belief,Blank Infinity,Chasing The Dragon

Simone's pics

magnoly — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:56:13 GMT

I think Simone as the most beautiful woman deserves her own pic topic Let me share my Simone love and show my fav pics of her. This might be like my ultimate fav: Sweet You just wanna kiss those lips Heavenly This is only like the first part of my favs

Random pictures

Admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:12:21 GMT

Time for some random fun with Epica

Alright, so here is photo from their videoshoot

Latin Translations

magnoly — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:05:08 GMT

From The Phantom Agony album Adyta (The Most Sacred) O nate vulnerate Cito veni ad me Te amplectar et vulnera tua lingam Utinam te haberem, mi amor caelestis Oh the one that was born hurt Come to me quickly I will embrace you and lick your wounds If only I could have you, my heavenly love Illusive Consensus Primo somniare videbamur deinde veritas se praecipitavit Numquam non tibi diffidam First we seemed to dream Then the truth warned us I will never trust you ...

Simone's interview from Kamelot's DVD

magnoly — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:50:15 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI29_b0gh-I

I find it very very interesting.
She's beyond cute! <3
"I have my periods"

How do you feel?

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:40:06 GMT

Just tell in what mood you are
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Bored
Excited for the obvious reason

What are you listening right now?

Admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:23:04 GMT

Mercenary - Lost Reality

What's the time where you are now?

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:01:50 GMT

11:00 a.m.

Random Epica Videos

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:31:51 GMT

Post here anything that doesn't fit on the other threads

Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMy_nAWC9Xg

It make me laugh hard

You know you are obsessed with Epica when..

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:49:38 GMT

...When you listen to them every single day,more than twice,making artwork,watching interviews,reviews etc

Tell us when you know you are obssesed with Epica

Gigs!

EpicaHolic — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:50:48 GMT

Well Epica will give this weekend their last September's concerts! 12th September at Applepop 2009 (The Netherlands) with Golden Earring, Milow, Babylon Circus, Novastar, Kane, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Heideroosjes, Alain Clark, VanVelzen, Marike Jager, Rowwen Hèze, Kyteman, Barbarella, Miss Montreal, Stereo, Drive Like Maria, The Death Letters, DeWolff, Bruise, Kelly's Heels, The Deaf, New Sound Sistim, the Righteous and the Bad, Cool Ice Crush Killers and Unlocked Memories 13th ...

NEW SINGLE!!! squee This is the Time

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:42:29 GMT

Mark Jansen wrote:"This is the Time" will be the new single. It's a song recorded for the WWF and all profits go to WWF. More news will be announced soon! *dies* I knew they were going to do something with This is the Time! I mean they played a song live without doing something with it ? .Of course not . Just one question:What doed WWF stand for? Edit:This song was written for the World Wildlife Fund=WWF

Top 15 Epica songs

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:59:32 GMT

The title says all.Let's go --------------------------------- My top 10: 1.Chasing The Dragon 2.Cry For The Moon 3.The Phantom Agony 4.Mother Of Light 5.Facade Of Reality 6.Death Of A Dream 7.Run For A Fall 8.Quietus 9.Fools Of Damnation 10.Consign To Oblivion But it changes of course

Merchandise

Admin — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:27:15 GMT

There is some rare merch out there which are mostly sold on gigs, and i would love to get some haha Soo let's some of them here (Pics from Studio Mystica, gawd it took some work to get them out there!) Trois Vierges t-shirt More coming later!

Epica Dreams

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:01:24 GMT

Have you ever had an Epica dream?Then,share it with us (if it's decent enough of course ) I only had 2 Epica dreams until now.The first one was a few weeks before the tracklisting and cover of DYU were reavealed.I dreamed I got my DYU CD,but I was really surprised that the cover image was a fiel with smiling flowers That was really shocking,and here is something similar I found on Deviantart,but I editedit a bit (I don't own this picture so if anyone from here is tthe owner please ...

Simone's Guest Appearances

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:29:56 GMT

Just post songs/videos of Simone's guest appearances in other bands ----------------------------------------------- I"ll begin with the most popular one :Kamelot's "The Haunting" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lecZ8UnsjLs and Primal Fear's "Everytime It Rains" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2IroJQZyA Power Metal Bands love Simone

Your Epica artwork

MetalHeadLiz — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:07:25 GMT

Here you can put your artwork of Epica or Simone here
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Here is mine

Epica Live Videos

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:45:20 GMT

Here is a thread made for all Epica vids we can find o the net Here's some very POOR quality from their performance in Romania last year*sigh*I wish I was there (and they aren't n order becauyuse I don't even know the setlist) The Obssesive Devotion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzt6jCLAKdU Safeguard To Paradise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIW7sfrQLE0 Sancta Terra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU470x5-OdE Uhm well I don't think I can fimd others ...

Interview with Mark and Simone(Metal Injection,2010)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:15:20 GMT

Quite new one,it's about 2 weeks old http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/4467/epica-interview-with-simone-and-mark It was really fun to watch . I didn't knew Reuver was actually nearby a forest,makes me wanting more to go there .And Mark also speaks portugese,wow,I didn't expected that .And shame on him,he smoked at 16 And poor Simone,with the mexico accident in 2008 .Thanks God she didn't got harmed at all

Simone Simons interview with Soltera

magnoly — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:12:05 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkBg_NmjUjI

Really interesting one.

Interview with Mark and Coen(Eternal-Silence.com.ar,2009)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:30:36 GMT

http://epica.net63.net/epica/en-interview-mark-12-2009.php

Lovely interview and lovely website indeed

Interview with Mark(powerofmetal.dk,February,2010)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:09:10 GMT

New one! http://powerofmetal.dk/interviews10/epica_interview.htm I really enjoyed it.New Epica songs on the way,more news about the project with Sander and Jack and,Mark's first metal band and the talent of the Jansen family that has been there for many generations

Interview with Simone(he Rise of Women,2209)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:23:31 GMT

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=209970453&blogId=502659855

Quite old but its a nice one!

Interview with Isaac(PyroMusic.net)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:45:31 GMT

I haven't seen many Isaac intervews before so I thought I would post tis; http://www.pyromusic.net/index.php?p=interviews_interview&interview=Epica&id=152 So,Isaac basically didnt compose any of the songs,he just worked on the guitar riffs and solos.That means the next album is going to be even more heavier

Interview with Mark(metalunderground.com,February 12th 2010)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:15:59 GMT

Another new one.Guilty pleasure

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=52974

ReVamp might be a support band for Epica in the following years

Interview with Simone(the-plague.net,November,2009)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:32:48 GMT

http://www.the-plague.net/epica.htm

A Really nice interview

Why do we love Simone the greatest singer in the world!

MetalHeadLiz — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:43:42 GMT

Simone Simons is the lead singer of Epica, and she is every Epican's idol I LOVE her

so what other reasons do you like her?

mine are
-she has an AMAZING voice
-she can pull very funny faces
-she is absolutely beautiful
-She has a great hair color (yep I have the same XD)
-she has a great headbanging technique
-she rock the world

Interview with Mark(Sonic Cathedral,2006)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:20:15 GMT

Spamming can be a pleasure when it's not useless spam http://www.soniccathedral.com/webzine/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=176&Itemid=36 Aww,Mark and his bycicling passion

Interview with Simone(Metal Storm,November 2003)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:30:42 GMT

Nothing new,but I like browsing old inerviews

http://www.metalstorm.ee/pub/interview.php?interview_id=27

I think this one was realy interesting to read

Interview with Simone(March 2007)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:48:05 GMT

I know,this is quite old,but it's been posted very recently,thought.

http://kathy.etwas-anders.de/?p=1161

Interview with Mark(mousekingdomblog,2009)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:09:16 GMT

About The Pirates of the Caribbean Medley from TCC CD

http://blog.mousekingdom.com/2009/05/04/pirates-of-the-caribbean-epica/

Interview with Simone( about.com,2009)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:03:22 GMT

Sorry for bothering you with so many old interviews,but I'm just bored http://heavymetal.about.com/od/interviews/a/epicainterview.htm Don't forget to turn to the second page Wow,Simone got into the same bands as I got into when I started to listen to metal And I have a quite similar personality as I'm quite lazy and I love sweets too

Interview 2002 with Sahara Dust

Admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:13:12 GMT

Sahara Dust is a new band from Holland that was formed by former members of prominent gothic metal bands such as Trail Of Tears and After Forever. This interview with the band members Mark Jansen and Ad Sluijter was done through e-mail in July 2002. Hello, how are you doing? Ad: I'm doing fine thank you. First off the boring obvious question, why did you leave After Forever? Mark: The beginning of the relation within After Forever was for me the beginning of the end. The contacts ...

Birthday Thread

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:07:30 GMT

A thread where we can congratulate our forum mebers and band memebers aswell

So I wish a very warm happy birthday to Diego,who turned 23 today!

A flow of new interviews

magnoly — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:39:34 GMT

In-person interview with Mark Jansen of Epica By Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal February 18th 2010, House Of Blues, West Hollywood CA http://metalassault.com/Interviews/021810_Epica.php Musician Photo Journal http://www.musicianphotojournal.com/interviews2.html#epica A short one with Isaac http://www.metaleater.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=29581 A bit older ones http://www.live-metal.net/interviews_epica_simone-simons_design-your-universe.htm http://www.thegauntlet.com/interview/1228/563/Epica.html

Live pics!!!

Lady Draconian — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:57:52 GMT

So, I have Epica fansite from all over the world on my myspace and I've seen lots of amazing pics they've uploaded. If you click the image it becomes larger These are from "Ripollet Rock", taken in Spain

Interview with Mark and Yves(Sonic Cathedral,2004)

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:44:28 GMT

I know this is a very old-fashioned one but it was quite interesting to read Mark and Yves bashinf After Forever's Invisible Circles And this is my new fave Mark quote Quote:Mark: But when you have things like… duh-duh-duh-duh duh-duh-duh [starts singing In The Hall Of The Mountain King] – it’s metal! So think of guitars with it – chug-chug-chug - it’s metal! And here we are in 2008 with the cover of that song I'll put that under my sig

I'm a stalker!

Your Face — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:02:19 GMT

Good evening

a booklet dedicated to Simone + questions

Marta — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:33:32 GMT

Hello everyone! At the moment I am working on a booklet dedicated to Simone, which is going to be published via my small company Muse(ic) Books ( www.museicbooks.nl ). It's not going to be a biography, nor a long interview. But more of a mix between these two things. It will be Simone's portrait, presented through the topics of her own choice: Simone from A to Z. Some of the topics are quite logical. But some other ones are pretty surprising. There will be also a section dedicated to the ...

Safeguard To Paradise

XxfrozenbutterflyxX — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:07:43 GMT

Lyrics: [i]Memories that fade away Have not left their mark But you live on, every single day In many different ways It's the truth between his cunning lies That hands him his suspicious alibis Persuading with your force will never be the way To our destiny Suddenly we've lost the force To close our cursed doors No one seems to realise That wolves are in disguise It's the truth between his cunning lies That hands him his suspicious alibis Persuading with your force will ...

Which Epica songs you have listened today?

Marit — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:20:14 GMT

I have listened to Deconstruct, Cry For The Moon, Tides Of Time, Martyr Of The Free World and Resing To Surrender