Epica

Epica Artist: Kamelot
Label: Noise
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Limited Edition
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 823107409022
EAN: 0823107409022
ASIN: B000085RTR


Release Date: 2003-02-04

Epica


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Tracks:

  1. PROLOGUE
  2. CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
  3. FAREWELL
  4. INTERLUDE (OPIATE SOUL)
  5. THE EDGE OF PARADISE
  6. WANDER
  7. INTERLUDE (OMEN)
  8. DESCENT OF THE ARCHANGEL
  9. INTERLUDE (AT THE BANQUET)
  10. A FEAST FOR THE VAIN
  11. ON THE COLDEST WINTER NIGHT
  12. LOST & DAMNED
  13. HELENA'S THEME
  14. INTERLUDE (DAWN)
  15. THE MOURNING AFTER
  16. III WAYS TO EPICA
  17. SNOW

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  4. One Cold Winter's Night
  5. Eternity

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of the greatest Kamelot's Album.......2007-05-06

Fantastic! That's how I can review this album!!! Nowadays, Kamelot is one of the best bands in the 'melodic'-metal genre. Criative, inovative and so on!

Khan's voice is really great! This album is worth since the first music! And besides that, this special version comes in a beautiful digipack-version, with one bonus and a temporary tatoo. A version only for true-fans!

I assure you, buy it and you will never regret!

5 out of 5 stars 2003 Might as Well Be Over Now..........2003-02-11

...because this is the best album of the year. I just received my copy of the limited edition in the mail today, and my day halted to a stop. I could not wait to listen!
First, the packaging is gorgeous. Of course, it's a digipak and the cover artwork is some of the best album art to come out in recent history--in the leagues of Dream Theater's album "Scenes from A Memory", "Snow" by Spock's Beard, or "Brain Salad Surgery" by Emerson Lake & Palmer. The digipak has a glossy sheen to it and folds out nicely, containing a temporary tatoo inside with the new Kamelot logo. Liner notes are also unattached to the digipak and are quite complete in detail.
Pop the disc in your stereo and you have an awesome new power-progressive rock concept album; pop it in your PC and you have an amazing Quicktime-driven multimedia experience. I won't spoil that, though. Just take my word for it and put it in your CD-ROM drive.
Now let's get to the meat: the music of the album. The production quality of this work is mind-blowing. For such an underground band (in comparison to Britney, Avril, NSYNC, or Mariah, etc.), the overall sound puts theirs to shame. The highs are crisp and the thumps of Casey Grillo's double-bass work give you a nice kick (no pun intended) without bottoming out your system. This album has more keyboard involvement than heard with Kamelot before, making for nice techno-esque phasing sounds and panning, a la Front Line Assembly or Chemical Brothers (we're talking sound quality here, not musical quality). Khan's voice soars on this album, with reverb and majesty we haven't heard before in a Kamelot recording. Whereas his voice would sometimes become muddled and lost in verses, now it mixes perfectly with all other elements. The songs are heavy but still orchestral and epic in nature, making you wish even songs that last six minutes would never stop. The grooves are "headbangable", if you will, but don't overtake the album, willing to step aside to gorgeous female vocal passages, symphonic themes, or Gregorian Chants.
Each band member is at their finest in this effort, most of all, Thom Youngblood, on guitars, who has always been impressive as a guitarist, but I think has finally begun to define himself and his style on this record--especially his songwriting ability.
Anyway, before I bore you to death, let me say I can't sing enough praise of this album, and if you're a fan of Dream Theater, Symphony X, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Stratovarius, ARK, Iced Earth, or just any sort of metal but are open-minded to more diverse elements, give this one a shot.
I picked up Kamelot's previous album, "Karma", in September of 2001, just on a whim, without hearing them much previously, and am now a heavily devoted fan. This band WILL grow on you, if you let them.
Epica is set to be 2003's album of the year. It may only be February, but this reviewer will still stand by that statement in 10 months.
Don't cheat yourself out of this one. I'm sure Lord Chimp, the Amazon Prog-Rock Guru, would agree.

(Album highlights include "Center of The Universe", "Edge of Paradise", "Descent of The Archangel", "Helena's Theme" and how it leads into "The Mourning After" and the awe-inspiring finale, "III Ways to Epica". Everything is incredible, though, not just these tracks. Thanks for reading.)

5 out of 5 stars

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