#in all conscience

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Epica ➤ In All Conscience 20th Anniversary live show  

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I love Epica’s acoustic versions of their songs such as “Unleashed,” “In All Conscience” and “Design Your Universe” and how Simone Simons sings them in a non-operatic voice, so you can actually hear what the actual lyrics are behind all the theatrical bombast.

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Do you have any songs you haven’t played live in a long time, or ever, that you’d like to perform live?

“Yes, there’s one song, “In All Conscience” [bonus track from The Quantum Enigma]. That’s a song written by Rob [van der Loo, bassist] and I always wanted to play it, but not everyone else do, so we’ve never played it yet [laughs]. But that’s a song that I would really like to play in the future.”

- Mark Jansen

[positivelyamazonian]

My Lartis playlist (I) - Loss

After seeing many of you my dear friends are starting to do a Lartis playlist, I have told myself, Why not? and decided to show mine too. It’s gonna be a little long and... well, just not to be a dump of several songs with several musical styles you probably won’t share, I’m gonna try, too, to deliver some explanation on why these songs remind me of Lartis, even if specifically the music style doesn’t suit them as characters. I take that risk.

I thought also to gather the songs in different themes, so they can make sense among my choices. For example, this first part will be centered in Loss. It’s gonna be sad, I warn.

Why loss? Because we’ve lost this OTP. The TRAOD sequel was cancelled, and we never got to see this pairing fulfilled as it was gonna happen no doubt, as confirmed by the TRAOD dynamic and the developers themselves. 

So this first pack of songs are songs which also speak of loss. They’re not gonna be officially canon like, never, even if they are already canon for us because we know what’s gonna be planned for them. Lara has lost Kurtis and Kurtis has lost Lara, and both are lost to us TRAOD fans and Lartis shippers. So these songs speak about of this loss, that’s why they’re so appealing to me

Anyway, let’s go. In all these songs the TRAOD ending vibes are impossible to avoid.

Ayreon - Comatose (01011001)

I’ve always imagined this song as a dialogue between Lara and Kurtis, not a real dialogue but rather an exchange of inner voices, because they would never say such things one to another, according to my headcanon.

Wake me up before I die, hold me close As I gaze upon the sky, comatose No reason to survive, I suppose Wake us up before we die..

Still I feel this song would particularly match with the feeling of Kurtis being mortally wounded, slowly dying, even comatose, and finding a reason to live and endure. Which would be Lara.

Epica - In All Conscience (The Quantum Enigma)

Epica has been one of my fav metal bands for years, and has a lot of songs that remind me of Lartis, but this specially tells about loss. The meaning for Lartis is the same, Lara has lost Kurtis and Kurtis has lost Lara. Still, as Epica is a very positive band and their lyrics always have room for hope and happiness, so this song leaves an open door to be reunited again some day, though.

In my heart you’re still here It’s the bond that we share I can feel you’re around everywhere Even though you are gone Our spirit is strong I’ve felt you around all along… I’ll see you somewhere again, away from all insanity We can’t beat injustice, now and for all I’ll see you somewhere again, away from humanity We can’t beat unfairness now on our own…

Within Temptation - Somewhere (The Silent Force)

Well, this band, like Nightwish and Epica, it’s been with me since my first steps into rock/metal music. This song is also very famous and I’m sure it’s not the first time it’s proposed for Lartis.

Leaves less room for hope but it’s sweeter and softer than Epica. It’s WT style, after all. The song I find it fits the most to the situation we’re left in after TRAOD’s ending.

Never stop hoping Need to know where you are But one thing’s for sure: You’re always in my heart

I’ll find you somewhere I’ll keep on trying Until my dying day I just need to know Whatever has happened The truth will free my soul…

That’s it. I think it’s enough. If there are other songs related with loss that at any point reminded me of Lartis, I don’t remember them right now, but in any case it’s not like I should do a neverending list... :) As you can see, rock and metal are my fav style of music, tho I also listen to other songs! 

Will go on later with other themes and songs :) Thanks to @clairesail and @anyathebloodshell for their ideas and contributions!

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In All Conscience (Acoustic Version)

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EPICA – In All Conscience (EPIC METAL FEST Aftermovie)

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Magic just magic...

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