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Knock Out Festival: Epica is the headliner.

• Published 06.11.2007
• Tags: epica

Epica was founded in 2002

Female-fronted metal band Epica (www.epica.nl) has announced that it’s going to be the headliner of the Knock Out Festival, which will take it’s place in history in January 12th 2008. Festival is located in Germany’s Karlshalle. At the stage fans will see also performances of Within Temptation, Helloween, Gamma Ray and Axxis. KOF will confirm more bands in the near future. For more inofrmation about this metal mass, visit www.knockout-festival.de.

Epica’s newest album is titled “The Divine Conspiracy”. It has reached in the first week of it’s release following chart positions:

• Holland: #9
• Switzerland: #29
• France: #36
• Germany: #41

“The Divine Conspiracy” album’s songs:

1. Indigo — prologue
2. The Obsessive Devotion
3. Menace of Vanity
4. Chasing The Dragon
5. Never Enough
6. La‘petach Chatat Rovetz — the Final Embrace
7. Death of a Dream — the Embrace that Smothers part VII
8. Living a Lie — the Embrace that Smothers part VIII
9. Fools of Damnation — the Embrace that Smothers part IX
10. Beyond Belief
11. Safeguard to Paradise
12. Sancta Terra
13. The Divine Conspiracy

Epica is:

• Simone Simons (Vocals)
• Mark Jansen (guitars, grunts and screams)
• Ad Sluijter (guitars)
• Coen Janssen (synths and piano)
• Yves Huts (bass guitar)

Symphonic metal band Epica was founded in the year 2002. Mark Jansen had left After Forever to pursue his own dreams and found that guitar player Ad Sluijter, bass player Yves Huts and keyboard and piano player Coen Janssen shared his vision. Drummer Jeroen Simons and singer Simone Simons completed the band. The band name is derived from an album of Kamelot of whom several band members are big fans and musically EPICA stands out by not only taking influences from the world of rock and (symphonic) metal, but also from film music as composed by the likes of Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer. ★