One of the best for me. It was this video that convinced me to go on a big big epica journey and I'm going to see them in concert next year. Keep on rocking.

This song grew on me after listening to it more and more. It's complex but now I just love it! Also, I like the fearless attitude on your channel when it comes to reacting songs from all kinds of genres. :) Sending much love from Finland! xx

It's a Dutch band and most Dutchies are pretty fluent in English. French... Not so much. We do get French at school, but most Dutch people are not that confident to have conversations or speeches in French. It does help with buying bread on holiday in France though. lol

Mike has had the biggest grin the WHOLE time.

Epica being my favorite band and Simone my fave singer of course, i love all their live performances and ive seen this performance a ton of times and love it more every time. you should try watching their live stream Omega Alive which is the best concert i have ever seen

Lanjutkan...

Good reaction: natural and honest. Simone not only looks wonderful, her voice comes straight from heaven, so it feels! The dutch symphonic metal ladies, overall, are doing great and seem to, with great love and power, work their ways up, to belonging to 'the' best female vocalists of all times. Mike & Ginger, I have great sympathy for you both...greetz from Those Netherlands!

It is incredible how Epica can vary from this heaviness to the most beautiful ballads. Have you watched "Chasing the Dragon" from their live Retrospect show? It's very moving. Also, please react to Tarja (former Nightwish singer) performing "Swanheart" during her 2013 show "Beauty and the Beat" with drummer Mike Terrana.

Great reaction. Cheers from the (rain soaked) Low Countries.

That was definitely a great show with a great lineup too. Perfect ending for a perfect evening

Today Epica just released the first video from their Omega Alive stream as the whole show will be released on various formats December 3rd. But I suppose you've already seen it on Simone's instagram..😉

A wall of Death / Epica is always a great way to start a song. 🤘 Later a nice circle pit. Would have loved to shoot this. And the stage show as well. They really do know how to set up a huge show.

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Just love this. So much contrast in this that it makes it really interesting Good one guys

now you guys need to hear design your universe live retrospect, it will give you chills

nice to hear mike and ginger that you finally wanted to do this one this was one of their heaviest songs with a lot of growling from mark that i had to get used to in the beginning with look very different now i think they are really great hope you see more often going to do old songs of them this is also a nice one without growling and with a choir in the background i think you will like this Epica - Unchain Utopia (OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO)

This was one of those songs that I had to acclimatise myself to the growling but I am used to it now I've heard it dozens of times, I have it in the car to listen to :) Mike had a grin on his face most the way through which was great and Simone's voice is lovely. I also never thought about them speaking in English to a French audience, thanks for pointing that out Mike I don't think anyone else who has reacted to this has mentioned it. Ginger mentioned the harpsichord which was great, I love that part of the song. This is just a great track and gives me goosebumps EVERY time I listen to it especially at the start where the audience run in to each other in the mosh pit. Thankyou for reacting to this one. Someone in the comments mentioned Dancing in a Hurricane Live at Zenith, yes also a great song. Take care

Yay! More EPICA! 😊

Mmmm.....always enjoy listening to Epica.....one of the titans in the genre....and Simone is a goddess!

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Not synthesized voices, it are recordings of the choir. Basically they do that the same way as Nightwish do their backing track.

How lovely the so called "Wall of Death". in this case the "Wall of Epica" became endearing!

What's happening. It is the wall of Epica A.K.A. the wall of death. Not to worry no body dies but at my age I know better than to be caught in the middle.

👍👍👍

If you notice, all the European bands speak English to their audiences unless they are in their home countries. When Nightwish was in Finland, Marco spoke Finnish, but Floor spoke English. When Nightwish is in Latin America, English was the chosen language as well.

Wagakki band, you gonna like them

Mike always has the most interesting observations.

Epic & spektakular 😍👍❤✌🤘

Def heavier than NW....gawd I love this premier Dutch symphonic band....damn!

Ok, so now you have seen the heavy side of Epica :)

Have just one thing to say about that………E-P-I-C……… ❤️🤘🇦🇺 PS - was waiting for your comment on the keys-synth player, had it on rails and was moving constantly back and forth even sending and going down and running to other end and meeting it.

really enjoyed the vocals, my favourite Apocalyptica song is their cover of Metallica’s One. Amazing cellos, give it a listen.

Since you both like covers Mike and Ginger, you should look up Simone Simons singing the famous song, "Memory"

simons is amazing queen 🎶

Hello Mike & Ginger! I'm a bit late to the party this time. First of all, congratulations! You've survived one of the heaviest songs by Epica :D Or at least the "growliest" one. In the majority of their songs it's mostly Simone with choir and then Mark's harsh vocals here and there, but in this one, it was mostly harsh vocals. They play this song at the end of their shows and crowds go crazy. Did you notice there were actually two growlers? Usually it's just Mark, but here, Isaac (the lead guitarist) helped out Mark with growls. And Coen (the keyboardist) did a couple screams too. I agree that Simone's voice is special. There are many great singers in metal, but not so many are also classically trained. Smoon has a wonderful timbre and lovely vibrato. I totally love her voice, it's just as beautiful as she is :) Btw, the harsh vocals in this song are spectacular. It's not just monotonous growling. Mark changes the shape of his mouth to create different sounds (he uses death metal growls as well as black metal screams). Isaac has even deeper growls than Mark so when he joins here and there, it adds even more diversity. Combined with organ and choir in the background, it all sound incredibly epic. This song is a true masterpiece but many people completely miss it just because they don't like growls. They can't hear how it's all masterfully put together and what an amazing piece of music it is as the whole. There is a very interesting analysis of this song from a couple weeks ago, by an opera singer. She was wondering if Mark's growls actually change in pitch :) Her channel is called " The Charismatic Voice" just in case you'd like to watch that reaction. She was also talking about Simone, of course. I think Ginger might like it.

When two metal dudes make a heart together with their hands.... lol. Cute.

Just a random bit of info: a common language that two non-native speakers speak to communicate with one another is called a lingua franca.

Yes! Epic from Epica!

Please react more to Epica and Terion.

Oh guys you need to give another Canadian band some love. Check out The Agonist...do either "In Vertigo" vocal 1 take by Vicky Psarakis or do The Gift of Silence. Vicky Psarakis is so underrated its criminals.

Eglish is the Lingua Franca. Just like it was Latin in Roman times, French in the 17th century, and it might well be Chinese in a hundred years.

The chorus was a real prerecorded human chorus. You can always tell it's human when words show up in any part of it, even if it's hard to make out what words are being sung. Synth/sampled choruses are basically just "Ooohs" and "Ahhhs".

You just checked one of the few tracks that I consider essential. Congrats. ;-)

Beste Zangers is back. In 2019 it featured Floor Jansen as one of the musicians. In 2021 it features Anneke Van Giersbergen as one of the musicians. I will link all the musicians on the show below. Beste Zangers is a Dutch show that in each individual week one of the musicians hears the other musicians perform covers of their songs or covers of that musicians favorite covers from other musicians. Then in the next week another musician is the featured musician who gets to hear the other musicians perform covers of their original songs or songs that this featured musician likes as their favorite songs. It goes on until all the musicians are featured individually each individual week.

Epica just released ' Unchained Utopia' from the Omega Alive virtual concert

This song kicks ass. Great reaction guys. Check out a accoustic performance of " Blank Infinity " kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g5d1eMZ0tK23dJs.html

Simone speaks French. Also Dutch, German, Spanish, and obviously English. Pretty good for somebody who didn't finish high school, eh?

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Hey guys, you've got the 3 lead vocals in Epica in this song (as in most songs) Simone, Mark and the choir. Just for fun, and enjoyment, you should react Ayreon's mystical realm of Transitus with Simone Simons as the Angel of Death, Tommy Karevik as Daniel, Marcela Bovio and Caroline Westendorp as the Furies... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/peCdh7uZl6mmh6s.html definitely worth your time...

Btw, you mentioned harpsichord? And you love Smoon's voice? I keep suggesting this over and over, you should finally react to "Trois Vierges" which has both, the harpsichord and her wonderful operatic vocals! It will soothe your soul, especially after something as heavy as Consign to Oblivion :) I personally would recommend the lyrics video uploaded by Kamelot & ARK Lyric Videos. I would like to post the link but my posts often get deleted when there are links, so you need to find it yourself. But please, finally react to this song!

I know you have done videos from the ' Retrospect' concert, but have you seen the whole concert. 3 hours long and Simone was pregnant at the time.

Ginger you need to have Mike buy you that dress. Just saying. 😎

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actually Spanish speakers are much more than English ;)

Yeah if it’s to loud your to old “””

The best version of this song is from 2013 Retrospect Live DVD. Sorry, but this doesn't even come close.

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