

How would you describe “Design Your Universe” to the fans ? Coen has written “Burn To A Cider” and “Tides of Time”. The majority of the songs were composed by Mark, but both Coen and Yves have also written some songs. It was like any other recording only that it took very long. So he had to work really hard in a short time to finish the parts for the album. Not really big problems, but the whole process took very long and at the end of the writing process Isaac joined the band and at the last moment he had to re-write the guitar parts, guitar solos and it was a little bit pressure for him, cause we had made the preproduction of the album and wanted to enter the studio in March. What were the composing and the recording process of the song like? Did you have any problems during the creating of the record ? So it’s powerful, catchy and it was a perfect candidate for the video. “Unleashed” is one of the few songs that really stuck to your mind after listening to only one time. Well, the album is quite complex, a lot of long songs, it needs a couple of times listening to before you can really get the album. Do you think that this song is the hit of the album ? You chose “Unleashed” to make a video clip. For now we got really positive reactions, we try to make the show really beautiful, lots of lighting, technicians, guest musicians and Ad Sluijter also came on stage in our release party in Amsterdam playing the last song “Consign to Oblivion” and it was a nice surprise to the fans. So some fans already knew some songs and it was really funny that they were singing the lyrics of some of them live with us. But we have the video “Unleashed” and Nuclear Blast also put our very first track of the album on line.
EPICA UNLEASHED ALBUM DOWNLOAD
Unfortunately there were already some songs available for download on the internet, somebody put it online. How was the reaction of the fans to the new songs? It’s a long period which is finally coming to a climax that we worked so long for the new record, we were working a new song, we played a show in Amsterdam that we presented our new record there and there was really a great feeling to finally play the new songs live that we were listening to for so long and yeah now they really come alive. Hello Simone this is Panagiotis of Metalpaths. The beautiful vocalist talks about the composing part and the lyrics of the album, the new members that joined the band, the cooperation with Tony Kakko and lots of other interesting things around the band.


“Design Your Universe” is the new album of Dutch Epica and the really friendly frontwoman of the band Simone Simmons talks with Metalpaths.
