Epica Are Here to Soothe Your Ears With Their Acoustic Rendition Of ‘Omega’
Symphonic metal giants Epica have unveiled an Acoustic rendition of there upcoming albums title track ‘Omega’.
With the album due on February 26th, fans have the opportunity to hear one of the songs in a whole new light. Epica will be hoping to receive similar if not better praise from the media than there previous album ‘The Holographic Principle’. The band’s dedicated fanbase have been eagerly awaiting the release of new music and the Acoustic style renditions always go down a treat with them.
Epica Guitarist Isaac Delahaye had this to say about the release: “It’s always a lot of fun to work on acoustic versions of new songs. For this one, I stripped down the title song of our upcoming album and wanted to give it an uplifting country vibe. Also, it’s the first time we are releasing an acoustic version before the actual album version. I absolutely can’t wait for you to discover the original. Hang on, the 26th is coming!”
Check out the awsome Acoustic rendition below:
Talking about pushing the upcoming album back because of the pandemic, Simone Simons – Epica’s Vocalist – had this to say in an interview with amplify :
“Well at the beginning of the pandemic we were still recording OMEGA. We would see our colleagues in the industry postponing their tours. I was at first optimistic, maybe naive, thinking our tour is in Autumn and things should be back to normal (laughs). We had to postpone the album and the tour and postpone the tour again, After already a sabbatical, having another sabbatical is maybe a little bit too much because we were all energised and fully motivated working on the new album with the thought that we were going to promote it on tour. We never would have imagined that it would take this long. Now, I am also afraid that the upcoming festival season, despite the arrival of the vaccine, that the festival season is still in jeopardy of being cancelled. Iâm realistic and I keep that in the back of my mind, so by the time they are cancelled or postponed, I am not disappointed again. Although I am very eager to get back on stage, I donât want to get my hopes up too much.”
Going on to discuss the album’s influences, Simone said:
“Life in general! I mean, the years going up to OMEGA, I was struggling with a lot of burnout but also having a very hectic lifestyle. Combining touring life with family life was not always easy. So my battery, I would say that I was extremely exhausted from touring and also the emotional stress of being away from my son. That drained me big time. But, I guess you go through phases in your life as well. Whatever is happening in society, we as musicians, as artists are a little bit of a mirror of what is happening, of course within ourselves, people close to us and whatâs happening around in the world. Global warming is a big topic in one of my lyrics. Genome editing. Whatâs happening worldwide is a topic. But, most of all, this album is a very spiritual album. Itâs the most profound, mature album in EPICAâs history.”
“The name âOMEGAâ is actually referring to the Omega point, where you have the Big Bang, the creation of the universe. Omega is the end, where basically everything comes together, spiritually and science. Everything in the universe is fated towards a final point of unification. Itâs the end of our Kingdom of Heaven series. So this is the third and final Kingdom of Heaven song. Itâs our eighth studio album. The number 8 is also very spiritual because if you put it on the side itâs the infinity symbol. The Kingdom of Heaven is about life after death and itâs also number 8 on the album. So there is a lot of hidden symbolism on the album and in the artwork. The big life question, âWhat is the true meaning of life?â. How do we navigate through life within ourselves? We are all âYing and Yangâ. We are all made out of light and dark. We all have this labyrinth within ourselves in which we have to navigate ourselves. We hopefully find our way out of the labyrinth and donât get lost within the labyrinth of ourselves.”
If your an Epica fan why not preorder yourself a copy of ‘Omega’ here!