That's very true

Yep, I love how so many of these wonderful artists are friends and truly enjoy and respect each other. Watch, for example, Valley of the Queens...Anneke and Marcela, both top level performers by any measure, seem to naturally and easily defer to Floor, especially at the close. For most I think it takes true confidence of self to so joyfully and sincerely acknowledge another's greater gifts. That's just really cool, and seemingly too hard for too many "stars".

Simone had a channel for a long time, but she deleted it

@@Dmitriy88S ...sad to hear that. That could be for any of several reasons, but it still makes you wonder why. Hopefully, she migrated her channel to the Epica connection. She is known for her gratitude for her fans and regards them as family. It's also possible that the pandemic has created some anxiety about social contact or even pressure to be 'productive' from the 'machine', causing a form of burnout. Floor Jansen had gone through a period where the pressure of 'parforming' drove her to near exhaustion. Even recently, Marko Hietela resigned from Nightwish and public life to reevaluate his life and mental health. Musicians are artists and creativity and the demands of the consumer driven music industry rely on continuous investment, or regular output of the 'commodity'. Music is also a business that requires a steady stream of rare inspiration. A supply of regular inspiration is, on occasion, rare indeed. While creating and sharing in that inspiration drives some, it drives some to exhaustion. The 'industry' can be a harsh mistress.

Galactica? :]

Ye these to ladies are our treasure:)

Simone appears in some random videos from time to time :D Like here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNZzg9eYyJbXmIE.html Damn, she's incredibly beautiful and cute. But of course, amazing singer in the first place. My number 1 (shared with Floor) of all time.

They studied together and were roomies too :)

When you have a chance to talk to them they are really nice.

Haha brilliant!

Hahaha brilliant

"Stabat Mater Dolorosa" is a christian hymn from the 13th century with music by Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi from the 18th century actually. But yes, definitiv worth a reaction video, just to see a whole venue filled with metalheads going completely quiet while listening.

Metal has a lot of links to classical music, that's why we love it 🤘😎

But Tuomas, dont want it. The year comes, and we see Nightwish with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Metro Voices and London Young Musicans Childrens together on Stage. Ok, it is a dream🤔🥰😊

@@ralfmeyer9086 Yeah, probably won't happen but we can dream it.

@@ralfmeyer9086 the reason Tuomas doesn't want to do it is the work that is needed to get this up to his standards combined with the cost, you barely get a wage out of these concerts once all the costs are counted... he's not wrong... when people want to pay Metallica prices for Nightwish maybe, but then again they don't want to raise ticket prices to Metallica levels, ever.

@@EndimiSerenity you are right, but three evenings in the Royal Albert Hall, or ELPHI in Hamburg (many say, the acoustic in the best in the World).And a live Version, of this, it would be awesome and stunning ok, i am not Tuomas. 🤗🤔😅

@@user-tf2wd1eh3g yeah, they open it with all the Works.., and then with beginng of Music, and then Floor and the Band blows them out of her Socks 🤗🤔😅

YESS!! :)

Absolutely! Epica Design Your Universe from Retrospect

In freakin deed! Another fabulous piece of an awesome show...so good.

Thanks so much! 🤘🙂 and we totally agree, they are phenomenal

Yep, I love to see folks enjoy themselves. There's even glimpses of the conductor bopping, and a few of the choral singers surely would've been windmilling if they had enough space! 🤘😈🤘

I would say Kingdom of Heaven - part 1 They are metalheads and they are now ready for the 13 minute masterpiece. They will love it :)

Yes, I think they are now ready :)

Haha Yes!! Thanks so much and thanks for the recommendation. Stay safe and be blessed!

O. Van Gent Not sure what you mean with 'NLD' but if you mean 'Netherlands' than it's actually NL not NLD.

@@hansolo2121 recently it makes no difference anymore. However NL is okay to me.

@@papaverweg Actually NLD does not mean anything.... The abbreviation for Netherlands is NL. That's why Dutch cars have a sticker with NL. Als Dutch internet sites have .nl a the end not .nld. You have a Dutch name (exept 'Van' should be spelled without capitol V) but I can tell by your comment that you do not live in NL :) Every Dutch person would know their country is NL. Have a nice Christmas!

@@hansolo2121 I’m Dutch so I know what you wrote but that’s only true for the EU licenseplates. NATO is using a tri letter country code and that’s what I did. Merry Christmas

Retrospect concert is perfection

I have a dream! Someone said in the past. I have a dream to. Epica and Nightwish together, accompanied by the Dutch Metropole Orchestra. That would be heaven. It would be the concert of the century!!!

* Simone

AAAAA YES THE SOURCE IS A MASTERPIECE AS A WHOLE!!

Released our reaction to it yesterday (21 April 2021) if you haven't checked it out yet🙂

Ahhh so jealous. Can only imagine. You must have fond memories of that show 🙂🙂

@@SongsandThongs yes, it was one of those gigs you will never forget. Next year I am going to see them again here (in The Netherlands) , they are going to tour with Apocalyptica 🤘

Ooooeee how awesome is that 😀😀

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gtCmi9JmrLjaqH0.html

Thanks @Alan for the info and @Andreas for the link. Checked it out and you can just see they have so much fun together. And Floor had Blonde hair, looks great on her!!! They really are majestic. Love them 🤘🤘

Absolutely agree, Nightwish and Epica are equal number one in this genre IMHO, both bands have each carved out a unique sound that belongs to them, lots of bands have tried to sound like Nightwish and failed. as for Epica, take a song like Universal Death Squad, what other band has created anything even remotely like that? they are simply amazing

@@watchtheskies 👍👍👍

@@watchtheskies Some dumbass a couple days ago commented that Epica is a shitty band "like any other shitty female fronted prog metal band before them". I could not believe my eyes how stupid and clueless some people are about symphonic metal. Jesus...

Thanks so much. If you haven't watched it yet, we released our reaction video yesterday (21 April 2021). Thanks for the recommendation, they are simply phenomenal. Stay safe and be blessed!

Thanks so much and thanks for the recommendations 🙂🙂

@@SongsandThongs all good mate!

UDS is mindblowing :)

Thanks for the recommendation. They are on our list so you will see a reaction soon.

Actually we haven't so thanks for recommending, we will add these songs to our list. Stay safe and be blessed!

@@SongsandThongs your welcome,and same to you ! be safe and blessed!

I agree with you completely!!!