Epica Cry For The Moon First Reaction - Singer Reacts to Epica - Sabina Reacts

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I understand why you told me that this was Nightwish style!!

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Sabina

[PanDeSal.]

Just wanna give credits to Amanda Sommerville, the gorgeous blonde in the choir, she is Simone and Floor's vocal coach and has a big influence of their performances' early days.

[jaapblaauw]

Epica ( Dutch band) has a much, much harder edge than bands like Nightwish, especially the last 5 albums. Therefore hard to compare nowadays. Epica is in a league of it's own. The band consists of 6 members ( three line up changes through the years) and they incorporate choirs and orchestra in basically every song. The guitar player growling is the founder of the band, Mark Jansen. Lead singer is dutch soprano Simone Simons who during this recording was about 19 years old. After they released their debut album The Phantom Agony a dutch tv presenter from a music program was so enthousiastic about their music that in that tv program they were invited to play that whole album live, it was recorded to be released on dvd later that year. ( 2004) This is a video from that recording.

[johndreessen]

Epica, a Dutch metal band, has six members. The singer is Simone Simons. The male singer is Mark Jansen. Who was together in the band “After Forever” with Floor Jansen, not related. Simone and Floor are best friends. They are amazing songwriters and performers. Thank you for this reaction.

[dontaylor]

Any journey of discovering Epica simply MUST include "Consign to Oblivion" live at Zenith Paris - a stunning performance!

[annaluczak]

I love when the artists use the classical training as a tool in creating their own style. And that performance was impressive!

[guitar_noodle]

Sabina, if you haven’t yet, Epica- Santa terra featuring Floor live.
Shortly after their debut album in ‘04 they released this dvd. There is also a dvd+cd version. I remember I emailed Simone to help me fill out the order form bc it was in Dutch. This was before they took off in popularity. She helped me and said if I don’t receive it, let her know, and she’ll send one to me personally. The Phantom Agony is still my favorite Epica album. She’s a mezzo soprano here but now she is a soprano.

[CyberBeep_kenshi]

Funny story, i saw Feint from the same recording ( which is a soft ballad) as my first and only songs, before going to a concert. Imagine my surprise when i heard the rest with the screams and metal thrashing riffs 🤣🤣

Never looked back, it's my favorite band now 🤘😎🤘

[thoughtsurferzone]

The first time I heard this, I was blown away. It was my first experience with symphonic metal. Went to see them in concert, too. That was awesome.

[charlesfuller]

I am so glad you made it to Epica!! Please check out Chasing the Dragon live!!

[ChrisPage]

This is actually an old clip. Mark Jansen (growling) was the leader of After Forever, Floor Jansen's first band. He left to form Epica. Simone Simons was about 19-20 when this was done. The song is about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, and how it has historically been covered up.

[Abyzdecannes]

Their rendition of the OST from Attack on Titans is quite superb too
What's good with Epica is that they have varied styles depending on the album, an overall great band

[renejensen]

Simone Simmons got a amazing voice, its in my opinion her and Floor (nw) that are the best voices in symfonic metal these days, and well to me in the world..
The growler Mark Jansen is the founder of Epica, and also write a lot of the lyrics, but Simone do write a lot to, and the other bands members sometimes to.. Epica became one of my absolute favorite bands about 3 years ago, when i really started to listen to them, and i have done so ever since, a song catalog full of great songs, and are just a amazing live band..
Mark Jansen will often represent the dark charecter in the song, and Simone will represnt light, and third player is the choir, who might often speak for the public.. that is not for all songs, but a common Epica way of doing it.. more Epica, yes thanks!!

[Doppeldropper]

Simone and Floor singing together on stage is worth checking out too if you haven't already, e.g. "Stabat Mater Dolorosa" 🤗

[andreaswennberg]

Epica - design your univers live retrospect. Lots of people on that stage 😁.

[christophschmedes]

Simone came with 17years to Epica now she is 43 years old and she is one of the best sopranos in Metall

[jerrybk]

You can really go down rabbit hole with this band. So amazing live. They just released new album. Look at new video called "Rivers" to see the beauty in lead singers voice. They are a little heavier than Nightwish but great song writers.

[watchtheskies]

They all look so young! this is from around 2003-2004 ish, they matured into such an incredible band, here is a more recent video, you should definitely get Henri to watch this one with you 😄:
EPICA - Beyond The Matrix (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

[davidhenriquez]

Excellent that someone starts listening to Epica at the beginning! ... and this song is not only one of their first, it is in fact the very first song that they released (like a demo if I'm not mistaken), although this recording is from some time after they already recorded their first album. Without a doubt this video is with which many of us met Epica for the first time.

[franro]

Hello there. This was a special event and dvd recording called, "2-meter sessies, We will take you with us". They played their entire first record, "The Phantom Agony" with all the instruments and people involved for this particular recording. It was released in 2004. This was the moment I first listened to the band and this dvd was my first purchase because I saw it in a store and was curious. 17 years later, they are one of my favorite bands!

[sonjaschweinsberger]

Simone was there 18 Jears old and i think the other musicians in the background and choir were from the music school where she was at that time .... there was Amanda Somerville who is also known in the scene and was in school at the time and Floor i am happy that you find Epica for you ....I've been following the group since the beginning and it's my absolute favorite saw severa concerts l of them in Munich ... once even with a meet and greet where I meet the whole band before the concert ... once....thx for your reaction ....more plz