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multi-parter epica thing. thought about it while i was making my albums of the year list.

so epica was like, a top-tier symphonic metal band in the 00s. you had nightwish starting to tarnish (then really going whole hog), kamelot entering their fan favorites era, and epica was really chewing the fuck out of the scenery. 2007’s the divine conspiracy is, god, top 2 symphonic metal albums of all time for me.

and then the 2010s hit??

so the thing about epica is that their sound is relatively stable for the genre. there are a couple of reasons for this: the simplest is that they don’t have the insane level of vocalist turnover that a lot of other symphonic metal bands have (hello nightwish, xandria, sirenia), so they never had to scramble to accomodate a new vocalist. they obviously have evolved in both sound and concept over time, but like… from album to album, you’re not going to get something like, i don’t know. like century child or neverworld’s end. 2012’s requiem for the indifferent (apposite. i am indifferent to this album) is, i think, the big obvious sea change in epica’s catalogue: thematically, they depart from their typical Organized Religion Bad Real Bad But Because We’re White Lib Europeans We’ve Got A Lot To Say About Islam In Particular (which does produce some mindbendingly awesome music, regrettably, e.g. the whole divine conspiracy). their sound gets more… ambitious, maybe, on this album? any symphonic metal worth its salt is ambitious (i was going to say it all is, by nature, then i remembered serenity and apocalyptica and decided against that). this is their first album with keyboard solos, which are one of my least favorite features of epica’s 10s catalogue— they just never really do anything for me, especially as they coincide with epica’s growing capacity to do these big ol’ symphonic numbers: you get a lot of songs that seem like the result of an embarrassment of musical riches.

i don’t really have much to say about this album. it literally made next to no impact on me. i’m listening to it rn and i remember it (at least, i’m in the front half now and i remember that), but it has no draw on me. the drum mixing feels super inconsistent— i think it’s because i liked it a lot on omega alive (where it is quite loud and prominent but also like, crisp and well-placed) that i’m hearing this and wondering why it sounds like the drums are all over the place. like, ok, near the end of monopoly on truth you get this really standout belted bit from simone (carry me slowly in the depths of your life!!!) where the already quite aggressive drums nearly drown her out as the instrumental gets pared back. i know a lot of the Simone Simons Bad Vocalist slander comes from live performances, but i do wonder how much of it begins with production choices like this, where specifically powerful vocal moments get drowned out or brought down against a backdrop choral arrangement. and there are some cool vocal moments! simone is really moving out of the affected classical/operatic style she had in the 00s, which i know is controversial among purported epica fans, but i think her voice sounds dope. there’s a cool moment on storm the sorrow (i think? i don’t care) where they slap a vocal distortion effect on her (which feels very kamelot somehow, like very futuristic dystopian yk) that sounds kind of dope in the moment (though weird in context). title track requiem for the indifferent sees a return to the orientalist aesthetics that were common in the genre in the 00s (think early xandria, therion), and it blunders a bit on the thin line between cool and goofy. it would sound cooler if the song didn’t kind of suck— i’m listening to it now, and the first verse is like… peak mark jansen lyricism, with literally zero prosody. this album has a LOT of simone’s lyricism which is frankly a blessing— see below:

SOMEONE knows about rhyme and metaphor! like i cannot tell you how god damn stupid “how can we justify the act / we’ve tried to look around and search for ways to (distortion amps up) shift the blame” sounds on an album where you get simone writing SooOOOO well for her own voice. but like i’m a simone simons lyrical miracle truther.

anyway like, unmemorable 3/5 album, i don’t have the musical vocabulary or the space to talk about what else i don’t like about it. mostly it’s unobjectionable if you’re not— as i currently am— sitting here with your nice headphones on having a good think about how it’s put together.

HOWEVER! they follow this up with the quantum enigma (2014) which RULES. like, the guitars get kind of swampy on requiem for the indifferent (i blame the drums in a lot of cases but i’m a babybrain music listener. it’s probably its own thing), but here they fucken sizzle. the concept also— like, okay, you can make good music with a total mismatch of concept and sound. i’m sure of it. not everyone seems to think that big cosmic things need big cosmic music, judging by the way people talk about like the mountain goats or whatever. taste! but the thing is, CONSISTENTLY, epica’s albums that are less esoteric are worse. like in the most.. my god. okay look at this

we start with design your universe because it’s the start of their album art era where they didn’t just go HERE WE’VE GOT A HOT GIRL. but literally you can see in the design that 2 + 4 in this lineup are going to suck. it’s INCREDIBLE! why does no one at nuclear blast see this!

note to self— relisten to intro to quantum enigma on something else and fuck with the eq. there’s a weird buzz that sounds like it might be… horn? yikes.

anyway like, the quantum enigma is way more rip-roaring cool out of the gate. it still features very unfortunate lyrics from mark jansen, but what else is new. here. L-R mark, rob, simone

fuckin ONE OF YEZ knows how to write words for a voice! (it’s simone. it’s always simone. rob’s aren’t bad— in all conscience is my favorite epica song of all time— but like, simone’s over here toeing the line of impressionistic senselessness with bonkers flair).

i need to go give this album a relisten so i’m dropping this here but the album fucking rips. i think the keyboards have particular rizz here: they lead in (with strings, which technically are more prominent but don’t feel like it) on the essence of silence, and then have this kind of gorgeous toeing-the-edge-of-cacophony effect as they get layered into the instrumental around the midway mark. a lot of the success of this song is how they toe the edge of shrill, which i mean as respectfully as is possible— like a lot of really soaring high notes from both simone and the backing vocals (i THINK marcela bovio is featured heavily here, as well as simone herself doing double duty— but i’d have to check). the whole album’s got a solid balance of symphonic elements and just really tasty metal. the latter half of victims of contingency has this incredible effect of like, trading verses between guitar solos and symphonic strings, cools off a bit (with a delicious piano flourish) to let simone have a second, then just barrels to the end. it’s got MOMENTUM! it has momentum they didn’t have again until omega! i’m gonna go jam. the album fucks. and then after it they broke my grinchy little heart with the holographic principle, and then patched it up and nursed me back to health with omega, and then. man idk. fucked my brains out or rebirthed me or something on omega alive. bye

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