It gave us The Matrix a good action flick. It’s given us proof positive that if your philosophy abandons Aristotle and Aquinas, it’s going to be terrible.

Somehow this line of thought is still taken seriously, and it’s given us plenty. Even as they question the very fibre of our reality with their extraordinary new album, EPICA are ensuring that their own reality will be a glorious and unforgettable one.The cultish devotion to contemplating endless variations of Descartes’s “evil demon” question mixed with Hume’s ridiculous skepticism has led some philosophers to seriously contemplate if saying “I have hands” is a valid assertion because we can’t definitively prove that we’re not just brains in vats (BIVs) imagining the whole world, our hands included. Released on September 30, the new album will then take the band around the world once more. We don’t just offer great songs, we offer food for thought!”ĮPICA will officially launch »The Holographic Principle« at two special shows at their own Epic Metal Fest in the Netherlands and Brazil on October 1st and 15th respectively. Besides the music, the lyrics have taken a big role as well. “Is this world a hologram? Are there multiple realities? Inside our mind and in our dreams we can create entire worlds, and the parallels with virtual reality are obvious. “So here we proceed from where we left off with »The Quantum Enigma«, on the search for what is real,” Simone notes. At that point, people might realize that the world we’re living in now is perhaps also a virtual reality of a higher reality.” It’s not perfect yet but in a few years the techniques will be so good that you won’t be able to tell if it’s our ‘real’ or the virtual reality world. “Nowadays you can put on a virtual reality mask and you’ll find yourself in a different world. “I was fascinated by the concept of virtual reality,” Mark explains. I for sure had to be on top of my game during this whole process!”Īnd once again, EPICA’s lyrics ensure that the album is also absorbing on an emotional and intellectual level, as the band return to the endpoint of »The Quantum Enigma« and set off on another voyage of scientific discovery. “You can find lots of interesting guitar riffing, accentuating the fact we are a metal band in the first place. “With every album we tend to get heavier and that definitely goes for the new album,” Isaac explanes. With lashings of sumptuous orchestration and a never-ending stream of ingenious but brutal metal riffs and propulsive rhythms underpinning the whole explosive enterprise, this is an album that raises the bar for the entire symphonic metal genre. Meanwhile, the shimmering soundscapes and multi-layered melodrama of 'Once Upon A Nightmare' and the towering 11-minute title track confirm that »The Holographic Principle« is also the band’s most musically extravagant and daring release so far. One listen to thunderous new songs like 'Edge Of The Blade' and 'Universal Death Squad' will confirm that »The Holographic Principle« is EPICA’s heaviest album to date.

Recorded once again with esteemed producer Joost van den Broek at the controls, »The Holographic Principle« represents the most impressive and powerful expression of EPICA’s boldly inventive sound yet.

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